Avoid Pinnacle (Dazzle) at all costs. They aren't capable of making decent capture cards. Someone I know had a Dazzle USB capture card, and it didn't even work properly. The non-Dazzle one I had myself had black borders on the sides and inferior video quality compared to my other one. It also had an issue where it would fall back to USB 1.1 mode 98% of the time, and I'd have to unplug and replug it and reboot a million times to get any resolution higher than 320x240. There are far better capture card manufacturers.
Hauppauge is fine, though for HD content you only have a few choices:
- Hauppauge HD-PVR 2
- Something by AverMedia, I have a CaptureHD PCI-E card, and it works great (at up to 1080i), they've come out with several new products by then that I have no doubt are even better.
- That BlackMagic Intensity USB 3.0 thing, but last I checked, it only worked with certain USB 3.0 chipsets. That might've been remedied now.
Well, I don't use streaming video very much. Just want recording from my game system. I do know abut Dazzle but I don't know other kind of video capture.
I did look up Hauppage and it is pretty little bit expensive. So I think I am going try to buy Dazzle.
76 dollars. Hmm...Not bad. But it dont have color yellow on it. So how do I know if I use my Wii?
Oh never mind. I see yellow on other side.
In that case I recommend the AverMedia. Dazzle is not worth your money.
The AverMedia is cheaper because it uses software encoding unlike the HD-PVR 2 (plus the HD-PVR 2 has a lot of extra hardware in order to do all the things it does, like HDMI passthrough) but as long as you have a reasonably recent PC, that doesn't matter.
It doesn't have to be the model he linked, a PCI-E card will probably have less latency (and therefore be far better for gaming) and possibly a lower price too. You should also get higher video quality.
They have other products here, though no prices:
http://www.avermedia.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?IID=7