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Vince: >RE: Fast Movie Machine Pro and miro DC1 TV… Gee! I thought they are the 'lower end' capture boards. <grin> I heard they are below $500 on the street. Anyway, see their price fall very soon.< Really? That *would* put 'em about in the right price range. I'd been under the impression (as had "they" <g>–my editors) that both those boards were $3,000 – $5,000–which is a bit on the high side for your average consumer… Of course, there's also the question of how powerful a computer's needed. While a 486/66 w/a gigabyte drive and 16 megs + RAM may not seem like much to anyone on this forum, it's a damned sight more than Mr.&Ms. Homevideo Consumer generally have. (Most of the nonprofessional folks I know, if they even *own* a computer, consider 486/25s w/4 megs to be "souped up"! <g>) >About doing a better capturing with Intel SVR Pro, I bet there are a lot of owners here would like to help you to do a bigger screen (I heard they're doing 320×240 at 30fps) capturing without dropping frame. (OK. OK. May be one or two.) Any one?< What Vince said–anyone, please? According to the documentation that came w/the Smart Video Recorder Pro (and according to my own experiences, which were, to put it politely, dismaying), you can't capture more than 15 fps @ 320×240 size, or 30 fps @ 240×180 fps). Neither are quite good enough for more than the occasional special effect, where you live w/the loss in quality in exchange for experiencing the Wonders of Digital Video Effects!!! <g> But I'm open to suggestions… Also, can anyone recommend a decent VGA-NTSC board or external convertor? I've used the GameBlaster, which is cheap (in all senses of the word) but does the job, and the output capability of the StudioMagic card (at least until it started hanging my computer up all the time!)–but I'd love to come across a better solution. Thanks, Vince! Tim