Best Graphic Card for Home Video Capture

[chefde]

Hey Guys,

I'm looking at purchasing a new card to play games and burn some of my home videos to CD's.

I'm looking at these 2 cards, need advice please.

ATI ALL-IN-WONDER RADEON 7500 64MB AGP $126.00

GAINWARD/CARDEXPERT GeForce 4, Ti 4200, 3.6ns, 128MB DDR, Power Pack Golden Sample $148.99


Is there a better card than these for the same or less $???


Thanks for any help,

Chef

[Peter M]

ATi's card uses ATi's own Rage Theater chip for the video in/out function; this gives very good picture quality.

You could just as well go with any random PCI TV card that has an S-Video input, and use any graphics card you please. Just make sure you got fast and big hard drive storage, or get a TV card that has compression hardware.

[videobruce]

Dedicated cards are the best but cost nuch bucks! (over $1000)
Matrox have been known for very good video cards (not great for gaming though).
ATI would be the better choice of the two given. nVidia isn't the greatest for the video in or out from my experiance.

[chefde]

Thanks for the responses,

Any knowlege of the Dazzle Products???

[Eladijaz]

The Radeon will probably have better picture quality and the nVidia will be considerably better for gaming.
Elad.

[Peter M]

Surely true ... but then there's faster AIW cards as well, using the 8500 chip for example, for not much more money than the 7500.