Looking for an HD capture card.

D4rkFire · Post by **D4rkFire** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 10:31 am

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Looking to spend around 90 USD

DrXThirst · Post by **DrXThirst** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 1:35 pm

You're not going to get an HD capture card for $90. Plus, you have to have RAIDed hard drives if you want to record in HD.

Just go with this one - http://www.blackmagic-design.com/produc ... orecorder/

It's $149, and it's almost as good as an HD one.

mxrider108 · Post by **mxrider108** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 2:23 pm

Thirst is right. I was originally interested in getting the best of the best, but then I realized that even SD recordings are likely going to be scaled down and compressed before anyone else sees them (YouTube, etc), so it would be almost pointless to get full HD (unless you plan on burning them to BluRay or something).

Geo · Post by **Geo** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 5:12 pm

If he's asked for HD, help him with HD... he obviously said it for a reason.

DrXThirst · Post by **DrXThirst** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 6:05 pm

Yeah, but at the same time, he might not have known that it takes at least a dual-core processor with 4 RAIDed HDD's to record with a HD capture card.

latinomodder · Post by **latinomodder** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 11:21 pm

Hauppauge HD PVR
Does 1080i no need for an extreme computer, and its cheaper

tucker933 · Post by **tucker933** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 11:47 pm

DrXThirst wrote:Yeah, but at the same time, he might not have known that it takes at least a dual-core processor with 4 RAIDed HDD's to record with a HD capture card.

Who needs a multi-core CPU when you have THIS.

D4rkFire · Post by **D4rkFire** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 3:47 pm

Definitely didn't know about the whole raid server thing. But I like Thirst's item, thanks guys.