Digitizing analog video for the price of a large cheese pizza

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Originally Posted by ARC Tech-109

For capture I use a Newtek Tricaster broadcast TC550 which does realtime capture but runs under embedded XP

For some reason I find it funny that it's basically just a PC.

I noticed the video coming in from this ezcrap dongle looks less "live" than on a real NTSC monitor. The digital recordings say they're 30 FPS but on the real monitor it looks equivalent to 60 FPS. I guess this is because the dongle records both NTSC fields (60Hz) as one digital frame (30Hz).
I have an older PC that's got an Intel Core 2 Quad and two legacy PCI slots. It's certainly up to the task of recording digital video. I think an old Hauppauge capture card will be a better solution. Not a dongle, a real PCI card.