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Phil, >> I developed a motion analysis system for the film Alien III that used a Targa 64, a Sony Laser Disc Recorder etc etc. I wrote an entire application around the Targa. << considering your excellent credentials, I'm surprised you are asking about the Videoblaster which I believe to be a low end video-for-windows type capture card mainly designed for making low resolution .avi files to run in Windows. If that's your application then it might work. I looked at a few of these type cards to see if they had what it took to capture/playback high-quality video and none of them came close. Instead I bought a DPS PAR (Personal Animation Recorder), the optional capture board (TBCiv) and a special, dedicated 1gb hardrive. For around $3000 this setup allows me to capture and playback video and animations at 752×480 60 fields per second and output to composite, s-video, and component (betaSP or MII). It's a great device and the cheapest of it's kind.