jkimball on 06 December 2009
Play in SD, capture in SD, dead simple. Many USB stick adapters can do that.
Unless your source is capable of outputting both SD and HD at the same time, you wont be able to capture HD w/o playing in HD. You cannot capture SD while playing HD. Period. The capture cards just capture, they don't rescale on the fly. If you want to play in HD, you'll need to capture in HD.
That said, you need a real hefty PC. fast proc, fast drives, tons of ram. 64bit quad core, 8G, SATA-300 would be bare bones minimum. The Intensity Pro, $200 (http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/intensity/) cards are popular but require specific sources - certain video cameras, tv's etc to get full HD.
See this forum post for some ideas : http://www.videohelp.com/forum/archive/ps2-on-ati-all-in-wonder-hd-trying-to-get-make-ps1-videos-in-hd-t371908.html
PC's really struggle with generic HD capturing. can't do this. You really need a proffesional video capture hw device. And a big. big budget!
Trying to convince me the Wii is a real adult game machine 'if you play it right' is like trying to convince me Tofu tastes great 'if you just cook it right'
