How does SweetSpot compare to other capture cards?
There are really 3 price bands for capture cards. 1. under £50 2. under £200 3. under £1000 Most capture cards are in the first price bracket. These however are ‘TV Tuner’ cards, designed to allow your PC to tune in to analogue television. As an afterthought, these also include either a Composite or an S-Video input which can be used with DScaler. While initially these seem to offer great value, they offer inferior performance as they have been designed as a low cost ‘hobby’ solution for casual TV viewing on a small PC monitor, not a large display device. Furthermore, as they only offer at best S-Video, then the video input in to the card is compromised before the capturing process has even begun. Finally, the lack of high quality RGB capture means that most sources either cannot connect at all (e.g. most Sky digital receivers have only poor quality Composite video or high quality RGB). The workaround to this is to utilise a converter to downconvert from RGB to S-Video. These cost typi
