Well, one thing's for sure - a lot of you are putting my raw captures to shame. Those Elite players are amazing.
You're absolutely right, the bottom one looks the best of the three, even though it's MPEG2. Hauppage cards have always been some of the best available, I just never looked at them because they only do MPEG captures. The middle one looks the closest to mine, and that makes sense since my cards are the newer generation of the BT8*8's.
Zion, from what I understand there is essentially no difference between my CLD-79 and your CLD-D704. I could be wrong but I beleive the 79 is just a D704 in elite badging.
You may be right, but the difference with my 704 is that is has severe color smearing which prevented me from ever getting a good solid capture out of it. None of my screencaps were off of that machine.