For some reason, very little attention is paid to stand alone video capturetuner cards. ATi’s All-in-wonder series of video cards usually get glowing praise for all of their video input capabilities, but the reviewers always seem to forget that you can get the benefits of the All-in-wonder (or nVidia’s Personal Cinema) capabilities without any of the drawbacks from a separate capturetuner card. For example, in order to fit the tuner and capture chips on the Radeon 8500DV, the clock speed had to be dramatically reduced because of heat issues, and of course when its time to upgrade to the next speedy 3d card, you lose all those extra goodies. With a separate capturetuner card, you’re free to get the fastest pure 3d cards for gaming, and you can keep the tuner card no matter how many times you change your main video card. Nice idea isn’t it?