Hi, The DV-Bridge is a good A-D solution at this time. This comes with a few caveats: -Older versions of the hardware have problems with playback. Make sure your DV-Bridge's serial # has a 'HW1X2' or 'HW1X1' in it. Oblivion Shivering Isles Patch 1.2.0.201. Apache Jmeter 2.7 For Windows 7. Those are revision #s. -Requires you to purchase a 1394 card. -If you have problematic source, then you definitely need a TBC. Otherwise, the audio tends to drift (aka A/V synch problems).

In general, any capture setup should have one (like the DataVideo TBC-100). There are some competitors you should consider as well. Sony makes a very popular DVMC-DA2 product. Canopus is also coming out with a A-D product that has a lot of potential. First, apologies to all Dazzle owners whose units perform 'perfectly'.

To me, Dazzle products are frustrating because they almost work great. My personal experience is that the DV-Bridge would capture with occaisional dropouts. I would have to go through and edit out these glitches. When playing back to tape, it would lose sync at times and just output blocks. Their software is legendary for being marginal. For me, a much better solution has been to buy an entry level digital camcorder with analog passthrough.

The Sony I got works perfectly (no glitches in capture) and has one great benefit over the DV-Bridge: it provides storage for the captured DV files which are huge. Thus if I ever want to edit again, or re-encode, I still have a digital version of the original.

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The unit is worth the extra money even if you just use it as a converter / storage unit.