Exactly!

Max RRP: Only $299.00?
Wow, very cheap compared to the prices of those hardware I introduced in the above post: Canopus Let?s EDIT RT, Pinnacle Studio 8 Deluxe.
And still does DVD Quality encoding at 720 * 576 MPEG2.
Excellent choice!
These were the key features I was after
- Real-time hardware encoding to MPEG2?
- DVD Quality (MPEG2 at 720 * 576) ?
FYI: I prefer external hardware just because I don't like it to draw power from the CPU. (Same theory as External modems are more preferred than Internal modems.)
Cheers,
McoreD
Edit: I didn't see anywhere it mentioned Real-time encoding to MPEG2. So KingCobra, be careful. 