[Altidude]

— “I go Svideo out of this card right to my Panasonic 27″ tv/monitor. Works the same as the external boxes except you don’t have to hook up a firewire cable since it’s built in to the card.” —

OK, this makes sense to me. That’s what I’d expect.

But I’m still confused about some of the other answers given here — maybe I need to do some studying so I can talk about this stuff more intelligently. I’m sure there’s a good book out there that would help fill my DV knowledge gaps… recommendations welcome… 😉

[Altidude]

Hmm. I’m a little confused on that point…

I’d have assumed that that if the Nvidea card has S-video outputs, and an external Canopus or ADS box has S-video outputs, the same digital-to-analog transcoding is being done either way — and that the external box simply gets the DV signal via firewire rather than being attached to the motherboard.

Am I missing something special about the conversion that an external box (or my camcorder) performs that an onboard card doesn’t do?

[Altidude]

Thanks much, Ed & Gary – I’m doing better now! (Whew)