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Brian Wood wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Chris Ribe wrote:
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I'm not aware of any HD-capable capture device, Myth compatible or not,
that sells for less than several thousand dollars.
If you know of such a device I'd love to hear about it.
This one is $349....
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/intensity/">http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/intensity/</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/intensity/"><http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/intensity/></a>
This one is $995....
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/hd/">http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/hd/</a>
This one appears to retail for under $2k....
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.aja.com/html/products_macintosh_kona_LHe.html">http://www.aja.com/html/products_macintosh_kona_LHe.html</a>
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Thanks. I guess I'd heard rumblings that such devices were getting
cheaper. I'd seen some units marketed by Avid that were *almost*
reasonable but this is getting affordable.
Looks to me as if these units just capture uncompressed video, it would
take a pretty whomping box to do a good job of HD compression in real
time, so I don't think these are practical for mainstream Myth systems.
Thanks again.
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For those of us who really want to capture HD, here's some info I found
digging on Google<br>
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A dual Opteron 252 (2.6Ghz) took 80% cpu power to capture 1080i60 <br>
It also took up 6.9GB for 1 minute of video, which works out to 117MB/s<br>
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