[l008com]

I'm looking for, and wondering if anyone knows of a video input card. I know that there are WinTV and other TV tuners that you supposably can use the xTV or iTV app to run in OS X. But what I'm looking for is a simpler solution, I just want a card (or firewire device) that can simply play n RCA or SVideo input through to the screen of my mac. Thats all. I don't want one of those USB devices that only works at 1/2 resolution. I want full TV resolution and full TV frame rate. Are there any, preferable cheap, PC input cards that I could use on OS X? I'll deal with getting my WinTV card workign seperatly ;-)

Edit: Oh yeah, I do know of all the FireWire encoder out there that cost $400 and up, but I'm looking for just something to capture, and really not even that, just to watch on, no encoding capabilities needed.

[geekwagon]

The Dazzle Hollywood DV Bridge costs around $250. I have seen it go on ebay for around $150.

Other than that, I have seen the ATI XCLAIM TV at Fry's, for about $180 but I don't know if it works in OS X.

[Diggory Laycock]

You will never get Full frame-rate and quality displayed on the desktop. These devices will capture at full-rate and Quality - but display on your desktop is reduced.

[Paco500]

As a completely differnt solution- you can get a DV camcorder for less than $400 these days, and all of them that I hve seen to Analog to digital conversion. It may be a bit more money, but you end up with a digital camcorder as well.

[l008com]

Originally posted by Paco500:
As a completely differnt solution- you can get a DV camcorder for less than $400 these days, and all of them that I hve seen to Analog to digital conversion. It may be a bit more money, but you end up with a digital camcorder as well.

Yeah but I really have no need for something like that.