Need help in moving ahead towards HiDef captures

[Centuri]

I have been capturing videos from cable and hand held recorders for over 5 years. Currently I have two ATI 9600 AIW cards and one 7500 AIW card (my first capture card). All have worked very well over these years (despite the unbelievably lame ATI software!!!) but with hi-def in the very near future I would like to upgrade to handle the newer better formats.

I'm sure that many of you have starting doing as I have, looking to see what is the better route for upgrading to the 1080pi range. One item of concern is that I would like to burn to BluRay eventually, now that this format seems to have been the chosen route.

My primary need is for capturing old classical movies from the cable, massaging the output to make viewable DVD's. I'm not concerned about handhelp footage as everthing now is DV and is brought in via the 1394 port.

I've went through as many postings here as I could but found most info is from the 2001 to 2004 area, not exactly current. I'm sure there are a ton of different opinions as to which direction would be best, and I'm open to consider all.

I'm posting because I do need help in this matter, and I'm sure there are plenty of others that are approaching this condition in the near future.

Thanks for any help!!

[neuron2]

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[dannyv]

I have been capturing videos from cable and hand held recorders for over 5 years. Currently I have two ATI 9600 AIW cards and one 7500 AIW card (my first capture card). All have worked very well over these years (despite the unbelievably lame ATI software!!!) but with hi-def in the very near future I would like to upgrade to handle the newer better formats.

I'm sure that many of you have starting doing as I have, looking to see what is the better route for upgrading to the 1080pi range. One item of concern is that I would like to burn to BluRay eventually, now that this format seems to have been the chosen route.

My primary need is for capturing old classical movies from the cable, massaging the output to make viewable DVD's. I'm not concerned about handhelp footage as everthing now is DV and is brought in via the 1394 port.

I've went through as many postings here as I could but found most info is from the 2001 to 2004 area, not exactly current. I'm sure there are a ton of different opinions as to which direction would be best, and I'm open to consider all.

I'm posting because I do need help in this matter, and I'm sure there are plenty of others that are approaching this condition in the near future.

Thanks for any help!!

I'm not quite sure what you are asking.
How to capture?
What do I do with it once I capture?

I myself capture High def from a DVR via firewire onto a MAC in .m2t 1920x1080i (same as .ts .tr .tp format). I then can stream it to my media player attached to my home theater system. If I want to archive it I convert it to DIVX HD 1280x720p using the divx HD profile. You can do 1920x1080i or p but I'm concerned with storage space because at resolutions that high the file can be as big as 10 to 18GB per 2 hours. At 1280x720 the file looks great and I can limit the size to 4.3GB.