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<blockquote data-quote="James" data-source="post: 89638" data-attributes="member: 12681">Hi M4NDR4K3,Sorry my post was too technical. I will try to explain more simply. There are two (2) class of products on the market for analog TV. 1. TV Capture cards or USB boxes/sticks2. TV Capture + encoder cards or USB boxes/sticksThe major difference that the encoder part, these devices have a chip (in hardware) which encodes the TV image into an mpeg2 format. Encoding real time into mpeg2 is quite a processor intensive task and these devices have deadicated hardware for that. Otherwise, this has to be done by the computer CPU.Many users have problems with non hardware encoding TV cards have performace problems, because the CPU needs to encode the TV image and in most cases decode it again for display.So it is also recommended to get a TV capture device that has a build in hardware encoder. For USB I believe the range is very limited. I personally do not know of any others except the hauppauge PVR range for USB. On a personal note: I would not buy a Pinnacle product, and certainly not the 100E. I have tried one, because it was kicking around at work (came free with some PC for our lab), and was less then impressed. Hope this helps,/James</blockquote>

[QUOTE="James, post: 89638, member: 12681"] Hi M4NDR4K3, Sorry my post was too technical. I will try to explain more simply. There are two (2) class of products on the market for analog TV. 1. TV Capture cards or USB boxes/sticks 2. TV Capture + encoder cards or USB boxes/sticks The major difference that the encoder part, these devices have a chip (in hardware) which encodes the TV image into an mpeg2 format. Encoding real time into mpeg2 is quite a processor intensive task and these devices have deadicated hardware for that. Otherwise, this has to be done by the computer CPU. Many users have problems with non hardware encoding TV cards have performace problems, because the CPU needs to encode the TV image and in most cases decode it again for display. So it is also recommended to get a TV capture device that has a build in hardware encoder. For USB I believe the range is very limited. I personally do not know of any others except the hauppauge PVR range for USB. On a personal note: I would not buy a Pinnacle product, and certainly not the 100E. I have tried one, because it was kicking around at work (came free with some PC for our lab), and was less then impressed. Hope this helps, /James [/QUOTE]

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