what is a capture card

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!

KylieDog said: I'm looking to get a capture card to use with my PS3 and Wii, or if I cannot get one that works for both then just the PS3.   Can anyone recommend one to me with a rough estimate on price please.   I would prefer to use one that I do not need hook up to my PC in any way except for after I finished recording and want to edit.  I've googled about and I can only see recommendations for ones that require you play in SD mode.  I don't care if the gameplay is recorded in a SD display but when I am playing I wanna still play in HD.  So please bear this in mind.   -Thanks.

Tell me if you're gonna record some Bad Company XD I'll love to be on Youtube.

Although there are some really hardcore players now that are either really good or exploiting the bugs/flaws in the game (spamming medical boxes, or absolutely taking a crap on a team and having 3 tanks by the last 2 crates, resulting in an impossible situation.