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Cross-Platform Video Capture Cards And TV Tuners?
ePIsOdEOnline writes "This Christmas reminded me of the times when you were a child and your parents bought that new toy that says on the packaging "Batteries Not Included". Post-Christmas rituals always turn into spending sprees to get other things that will be compatible and complementary to the gifts we recieved. This past Christmas, I recieved a PS2 along with a mini-dv camera set. Well, now I'll need something to view these with since I don't have a television in my apartment. So, I was looking into picking up a TV-tuner card for my computer. What kind of cards has the slashdot crowd been successful with, and which ones should I steer clear of? I'd like to be able to use the card in linux and sometimes windows, to watch and record off of. What kinds of software/hardware should I invest in, and is it an easy, accomplishable task to delve into?"
Thing is, you can't do better than a PC for creating a video. Nothing is better. It's cheap, relyable, and you can buy hardware without having to break the bank.
My friend has a mac, and all he can do is record his shows with his video camera, store them in the mac over firewire (of all things), edit, choose music from iTunes, add text captions and credits, export it back to the camera or as a QuackTime file. He's done his entire video library like this. Imagine being limited like that. I feel so sorry for him.
On a PC, you have the entire industry at your disposal. You're a lot more productive.
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SHIT ON ME! It's official - Slashdot has fucking confirmed: Trollkore is dying
Yet another cunting bombshell hit the community of Trollkore asswipes when Slashdot recently confirmed that Trollkore accounts for less than a fraction of one single puny fucking percent of all trolls. Coming hot on the heels of the latest Slashdot survey which plainly states that Trollkore has lost more fucking fp's to the GNAA, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Trollkore is ingesting itself backwards, disappearing up its very own shitter, as fittingly exemplified by beeing fucking owned in this recent Slashdot story.
You don't need to be a cock-sucking Kreskin to predict Trollkore's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Trollkore faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any fucking future at all for Trollkore because that sorded, shit-filled, mutated testicle of a troll group is dying. Things are looking very bad for Trollkore. As many of us are already aware, Trollkore continues to lose first posts. Red ink splashes across the accounting documents like a series of exploding bloodfarts. Trollkore munches the most ass of them all, having lost 93% of its core trollers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Trollkore cuntwipes Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Trollkore is dying and its rotting corpse smells worse than a maggot, vomit, shit and piss cocktail.
Due to the troubles of those arseholes at Slashdot, abysmal trolls and so on, Trollkore showed themselves to be a bunch of retarded tossers, went out of business and were taken over by GNAA who troll another type of trolls. Now Trollkore is also a miserable failure, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house... pathetic.
All major surveys show that Trollkore has steadily fucking declined in first posts. Trollkore is where it belongs, at death's door and its long term survival prospects are almost non-fucking-existant. If Trollkore is to survive at all it will be among moronic, dilettante shitheads. Trollkore continues to Chew Satan's Dick And Fuck The Baby Jesus Up The Pooper. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Trollkore is dead.
Fact: Trollkore WILL FUCKING LOOSE THE UPCOMING FP-BATTLE!!.
Then what do you point all your funiture at?
Move along. No sig to see here.
Geez, you really are geeks aren't you? Why not just run Windows or MacOS X if you want to do DV? Hang on, let me see if my Sparcstation will let me play Grand Theft Auto.
I want to put my pee pee in your poo poo hole.