That, I can't tell you as I have no basis for comparison. The only comparison I have personally is against a USB capture device which was crappy to say the least. As far as what I own now, it really depends on the quality of the source footage and the final compression standards you set when encoding it that determine the overal outcome. I use the huffyuv codec and although it's sometimes fussy with Windows media player it's generally turns out pretty well once it's converted to MPEG2.