I have been considering buying a faster PC and if I knew I'd get better results w/the new card over the DC30 I may go ahead & upgrade now. When I tried using the AV/DV card to capture in MPEG I got a warning that my PC was too slow and I may get dropped frames and sure enough I did. Problem is my sys is not very fast, P3 1 Ghz. Also, which has best SW tools available for it, there didn't seem to be a lot for the DC30 IN wIN 98. I'm curious as to which one of these cards would give the best quality conversions. It includes a Pinnacle capture card and Studio 9 software. A family member recently gave me a Pinnacle Studio AV/DV sys for Xmas. Finally got it working well but hadn't had time until recently to actually transfer the tapes. It took a while to set up properly (had to install Win 98 on my Win 2k PC and try different drivers and 'wrappers'). A while back I bought a Pinnacle DC 30 to use to transfer a bunch of VHS to DVD and maybe do some light editing.
