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Robb, I'll throw this out, as inacurate as it may be. Most of the capture card makers that I have seen for the PC do everything off the buss except for the actual HD I/O. Therefore the need for bandwidth is lessened. All of the "effects" are done through dedicated hardware on the card or offline and rendered. I am not enough of a hardware guy to tell you even "why" they would want to do it all in the CPU as oppsoed to using the dedicated card-based hardware to do the dirty work, but, having seen Amigas do their tricks I can tell you that there are certainly advantages. -John