All that's been missing is an affordable way to burn DVDs. A few years from now, we may look back at the Summer of '01 as the beginning of the DVD revolution. This could mean the beginning of the end for video tape and the transformation of video from a linear medium to one of random access. If you want to find all the clips of the family dog, you just pull them out of the index. No rewinding, fast-forwarding or searching.
Every scene is indexed and just a click of the remote or mouse away.
640x480 is considered to be full screen capture. This results in the best quality video. These formats are good for multimedia or VHS editing because you get more video per gig. The downside of these smaller capture sizes is that the card ends up having to recreate the missing info so you can end up with artifacts and blurred colors. Video at this quality requires hard drives that can sustain data throughput over 3.5 megs per second.