video capture card?

[confus-ed]

I would love to get my hands on the radeon 7500 all in wonder... but they don't seem to do it here

Nope no new uk imports of these (ATI have the market here 'stitched up' - must be an authorised seller to ship 'em here) .. you might find one 'hanging about' on e-bay or whatever - here you are looking for either a 8500 or 9200 AIW but they are getting tricky to find too .. its all a conspiracy I tell ya !

But maybe not ... if you get a card with VIVO (video in & video out) you can capture with them too, you just don't get an anolgue composite converter (so you can only see what something else like your VCR 'tunes' the signal to) & you have to figure out the leads to get from your source to what's usually on a VIVO card which is s-video ..

But on this digital feed stuff, its not me that's confus-ed (for once !) but seemingly everyone else ... 99/100 Tvs are analogue & whether your incoming signal (from cable or satelite) is 'digital' the output from the set-top box will be analogue & you can capture that with 'any old Tv card' ...

You can get digital TV cards too, which here you might use to get & unscramble free digital terrestial services like freeview (you could also directly tap your digital feed from cable or whatever & one of these should 'do it' for 'free' channels not needing decoding & an 'authorising card')

Clarify what 'light use' is & this might get easier to figure out .. if he just wants to transpose his vhs tapes to hard-drive then vivo will/should be enough - if he wants to use it like a tv then he wants an all in wonder or a TV card to enable him to 'tune in' on part of the analogue signal & seperate monitor driver .. if he has digital feed somewhere then he might like a digital tv card & seperate for his monitor..

[NooNoo]

I got my AIW 7500 over a year ago.... better read the dates again guys.

[confus-ed]

I got my AIW 7500 over a year ago.... better read the dates again guys.

aaww bollocks ! ... toddles off to comments & suggestions to make one about stupid back to front American dates being at least written larger ! .. so guilty as charged then m'lady ! ...