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I recently set up a 90mhz Pentium with a Miro DC1 TV motion video capture card (30fps, ISA card, VHS quality output). Very inexpensive card (under $700.00 thru discounters) but very adaquate output if (and only if) you have a fast disk sub-system. I'm using WFW 3.11 with Adaptec PCI SCSI adapter and Micropolis 1760 LT (it's the external model of the 2217 which is mentioned frequently in reviews). It's very very important to have 32 bit disk and file access and to have PCI based disk controllers. Once I finally got the correct drivers installed, which was a major headache, the PCI Adaptec/Micropolis system really smokes! The Adaptec 32bit drivers more than doubled my disk throughput. I considered several other systems including the Targa 2000+ which is clearly higher quality than the Miro but it costs around $5,000, and requires EISA based system. No matter what you use for capture – stick with Adobe Premiere 4.0 for DTV editing. If you have a fast system, Premiere is wonderful (even with all the bugs…er features).