Quote Originally Posted by AntonyF View Post
TV capture is such a minefield. I've had Pinnacle and Hauppauge cards and both were dreadful. The user interfaces are horrific and stability variable.
Yep, but tweaking some settings did miracles, atleast with the pinnacle card.
The capture software was simple and good, the problem started when I tried
to use Pinnacle studio 9 for the capture, so I stuck with the simple one
which came with pinnacle.

I recently got a Compro card. While not perfect, it's a lot closer than the above mentioned makes. So I recommend checking them out.
Hmm I will google on that name, but it all depends on the hardware
one card works fine in one computer on the other it stinks,
I have noticed.

If you cable system has an s-video out, then an s-video cable to the input on the card is best. But it probably won't have s-video out, so then you'll need to run from a SCART socket on the cable box. You will then need a converter to convert the signal for the s-video input, or get a card with a composite input (which is what I use on my Compro).
NOt everyone has a cable box, some just have an analog signal.
But S-VHS I use because I have a S-VHS videorecorder and S-VHS
does give a nice clean picture.

But I will look at the card you mentioned. Who knows, there could
always be better cards.