Hello everyone! Really glad to have found this thread which I now read twice.

I am looking for an external HDMI capture card, so this was an interesting read.

I was looking at the Skydigital SKY-CXHDMIU3 mentioned in the first post, which has a nice enough price and is able to do "lossless captures" with DD5.1.

Although, after thinking about it for a while, I'm not sure that in the end I want to have to deal with huge UT or Huffyuv files and reencode everything.

I then started looking at options like the "HD PVR 2 GE Plus" that seem to support AC3 audio as well. The limitation of 14Mbps seems "good enough" for me. Although it seems that it doesn't capture 1080p@23.976 which is what I was aiming at.

Are there any similar cards to (Hauppauge, eyeTV, AVerMedia) that do 1080p23.976 and AC3?

Thanks