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Hmmm, at this stage the only video playback source I've tested with the card are anime laserdisc releases from the mid-late 90s - at the time I made that video my trusty Panasonic 6-head VCR was elsewhere in the house and I hadn't thought to add that into the mix. I don't know if my test LDs had macrovision or not unfortunately. In theory, if the content doesn't have macrovision protection you'll be fine, but if it's a commercial release it will have it in all probability. I'm unsure if what you're trying to capture is something taped off a TV or an official release, but if it's the latter it'll probably have macrovision. My capturing setup is a little messy at the moment but I should be able to give it a quick test in a few weeks - if I can run some macrovision-protected content through it I'll respond here to let you know how it goes.

@@animeinferno Hi Anime Inferno, I have a mix of tapes, some do have Macrovision. I am hoping it will work with those too as the tapes I have were never released on any other format. I can capture from my cheap sony vcr using my advc110 which can handle the macrovision but that sony deck doesnt have a Time Based Corrector like my JVC SVHS deck does, but the JVC outputs NTSC as PAL60 which the advc110 I use to capturee to my PC cant deal with at all. The PEXHDCAP60L can handle pal60 but unsure if it can handle the Macrovision lol. Your captures look alot better than the ones I get from the ADVC so i just ordered a PEXHDCAP60L2 atleast i will get better quality captures for my home movies and tapes without macrovision. Fingers crossed though. If you find the time to try yours out it will be interesting as i ordered a slightly diffeerent model .Thank you very much for your response.

hey! you can check on ebay and stuff where they resell! you could try to find it in stores, though it would be difficult. if you google sailor moon dvd i'm sure you can find some stuff!

@@lapistea unfortunately I couldn’t find it anywhere and I just gave up because they stopped making the season 1 blu ray

@@majorasamtheo-door7007 i can try to look for you

@@majorasamtheo-door7007 im not sure if this is it but on amazon you can find "sailor moon set 1" which contains the english and japanese voice but if you want the blu ray box set in this video ill try to look rn

@@lapistea thank you, cause I spent months and got nothing : (

The packaging on the DVDs suggests it's locked but I double checked the disc itself - can confirm the Madman Sailor Moon DVDs are definitely region locked to Region 4 (Australia & New Zealand), so no luck if you have a Region 2 locked DVD player. On the upside they've kept the NTSC video so there's no additional artefacting as part of a PAL to NTSC conversion during the mastering process.

@@animeinferno thanks for the info!.... Since the blu-rays of season 4 are out of print the DVDs are the only option and since I don't have a region free player I have rip them on my computer and then watch them as files... Great 😂

Yeah, the issue of grain and that level of organic detail's a tricky thing to balance correctly. I think I'm happy with the software upscale on the SD masters for Sailor Moon, but when I reviewed some of the Dragon Ball Z movies that were fresh scans at HD, I felt the noise reduction was a little too aggressive for my liking (though others probably disagree!). Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this, I hadn't thought specifically of the grain, something to think about if I do some future comparison videos.

@@animeinferno Is the English dub is Australian English? Or do they use the same American English from Viz?

Thanks for the comment, glad you enjoyed it (and sorry for the belated response!)!

I haven’t tested on OBS unfortunately so can’t say - sorry!

From what I’ve read this card’s pretty close at doing the lag-free thing, but to be honest I can’t say as much from experience. For analogue consoles I run everything through a Kramer video matrix to simultaneously output to the card and to my CRT, and for HDMI sources my AV Receiver does twin HDMI output so I keep one running to my TV and the other to the capture card. Unsure if you had considered going down this route and looked at adding something to your video chain to achieve something similar (given the cost of this card it might be cheaper). I can dig up the model number for the Kramer units I’m using for my analogue capture if you like, otherwise it might be worth looking into HDMI options if that’s what you’re capturing. Good luck!

Yeah, it's a great card - I haven't tried recording a NES in component or RGB (haven't had the time to break out the soldering iron... yet!), but since it should outputs 240p all you'll need to do is get the settings right (happy to post as a reply if you get stuck) and you'll be set. The Wonderboy: The Dragon's Trap video I posted in April was also captured using this card, stunning HDMI capture but the trick is you need to have an audio connection on the PC or else it won't grab the audio. My trick there was to plug in a set of headphones on the PC's output jack.