It's reasonable for the price (although I bet their profit margin is still very high as it looks like a relatively simple device). Now my question is can it really capture content from any HDMI source (read: does it *support* HDCP, kinda ironic if it does) and what are the system requirements for capturing the video/audio. My thinking is that uncompressed video and sound will be HUGE. An HD-DVD/BD movie can be 25GB or so in size COMPRESSED (think jpeg or mp3). Now capturing UNCOMPRESSED video (think bmp or wav) will be a serious under taking, multi TB probably, then reencoding that bad boy back to a workable format (VC-1, H.264, MPEG2) will take some serious time and horsepower to accomplish. However it probably won't be a big issue in a year or 2 when quad-core CPU's are released and multi-TB hard drives.
I would not be suprised to see it suddenly disappear into thin air either as it scheduled to be released next month.
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It's reasonable for the price (although I bet their profit margin is still very high as it looks like a relatively simple device). Now my question is can it really capture content from any HDMI source (read: does it *support* HDCP, kinda ironic if it does) and what are the system requirements for capturing the video/audio. My thinking is that uncompressed video and sound will be HUGE. An HD-DVD/BD movie can be 25GB or so in size COMPRESSED (think jpeg or mp3). Now capturing UNCOMPRESSED video (think bmp or wav) will be a serious under taking, multi TB probably, then reencoding that bad boy back to a workable format (VC-1, H.264, MPEG2) will take some serious time and horsepower to accomplish. However it probably won't be a big issue in a year or 2 when quad-core CPU's are released and multi-TB hard drives.
I would not be suprised to see it suddenly disappear into thin air either as it scheduled to be released next month.