Better capture card than Turtle Beach Video Advantage for the money?

Since I've been having issues with my Pinnacle DC10+, I went looking for a
new capture card. Found a Turtle Beach Video Advantage at Comp USA. It was
the only PCI capture card I found at the various megamarts and I wanted to
avoid the USB gizmos.

On a "what the heck" basis, I decided to try it. I saw it got a decent
review at Tom's Hardware. Experimenting a bit with it, it does seem to yield
noticeably superior results to the DC10+ when comparing the same individual
captured frames converted to .bmp from the same video both from a VCR and
from a Digital 8 cam, captured via S-video and composite from the cam, and
via composite from the VCR. Since my VCRs don't have s-video out, had no way
to compare. The images from the Video Advantage are definitely sharper and
clearer. All video is captured with Studio 9, which I discovered will work
with the Video Advantage.

However, the Video Advantage card has a lot of things I just don't need.
While the editing software seems decent, I'm aleady comfortable with
Pinnacle 9. It has a breakout box which is nice, but I've already got more
firewire, USB and audio jacks than I need. Futher, this Turtle Beach card
doesn't have any outs other than Firewire, so to go out to the TV monitor
I've got an aging DC10+ that may not be on the same game plan as the Turtle
Beach card - i.e. are the colors & resolutiong I'm seeing reflective of what
the Video Advantage has laid down?

So, rather than pay $145 for a card including accessories I don't need, what
I'm thinking I could get more bang for the buck. I'm wondering, what's a
capture card that can probably be had used for around the same money that's
better than both the DC-10 and the Video Advantage and also has its own outs
and will be compatible with Pinnacle Studio? Is there such an animal?

Thanks for all input.


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