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I have an ancient Hauppauge PVR150 analog TV tuner PCI card, and a more recent Hauppauge Live USB 2 capture dongle. They make pretty darn good video captures... just not with the software supplied from Hauppauge. It is garbage. It only saves in one file format (.mpg I think?) that either produces HUGE but just OK looking files or smaller files that look like total crap.
I can't use the supplied software anyhow since I switched to Linux, but the hardware drivers are baked into the kernel. I've found that I can use VLC media player to record from either capture device, and it has multiple options for file formats and sizes, etc. It also can deinterlace the video as it captures and can apply some other filters as it captures, too.
They don't seem to care about macrovision BS either, which is a plus.
I also had an ATI TV Wonder (Pro 200 I think) back in the early 2000s. It seemed to produce good results, but I didn't really use it much before I got fed up with the computer it was in and gave it away.
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