Capture card for powermac G3

[nixgeek]

Originally Posted by SuperTyphoon

Yeah, newer OS's and software don't like or work well with old machines. A simple marketing technique to get people to buy new ones...

While true in one respect, the fact that people are creating faster and faster chips and computers allows people to do more things that couldn't be done with yesteryear's computers and chips. Consider how long it would take to render a lot of the stuff that you see today in 3D on computers from 10 years ago. Yes, 3D existed years ago, but most definitely NOT at the detail that we can get with today's computers, and today's computers most definitely won't be able to render or compute stuff speedily 10 years from now. So while the older computers aren't truly obsolete (since I believe that's a subjective term), there's no way they would be able to address the demands of hte future.

The only bad thing about the whoe process as you metioned is the marketing ploy and the planed obsolescence of some companies (including Apple, Microsoft, and other commercial companies). However, it is a necessary evil in the progress of technology.

[epooch]

try a USB 2.0 MPEG hardware encoder. That way most of the processing is done by the device and not the machine