Consumer, prosumer or Pro? Please help me make a choice

Do you see yourself working with DV footage anytime in the near future? If so, then the DV products should be something to look at. Don't get these products if you have absolutely no interest in working with DV footage and DV camcorders. I'm not sure about the Compro VideoMate. I have no idea about the specs. I personally use a DVICO Fusion HDTV Gold card. I can watch HDTV (ATSC) with an outdoor antenna or through QAM signals delivered through cable TV. It also can handle analog duties with a cx2388x chipset which I use with Dscaler to record. It also comes with its own mpeg2 capturing software to capture to Mpeg2. Unfortunately I can't capture beyond 320x240 when using WDM drivers with Vdub. Dscaler so far is the only application that can capture VFW video at 720x480 NTSC with my card since it doesn't use the WDM drivers that are provided by DVICO. Fortunately it does a good job as long as I use compatible codecs.

But do these professional packages have any advantage at all over regular capture cards, wether it be for capturing DV or TV/VHS? Here are the specs of the Compro: And here is a capture card comparison that includes the Compro: By the way, I will only capture TV or VHS (and maybe the occasional DV footage). We don't have HDTV in Uruguay, so that's a moot point.

The clicking issue might be a PCI latency issue. Capture cards tend to instensify PCI latency issues when used. I've encountered this a long time ago with an old VIA chipset motherboard and a BT878 tuner. Good motherboards tend to not have these issues. It might be the card itself, but I doubt that any company would sell $400-$500 cards with these issues present.

But do these professional solutions hold any advantage over standard capture cards regarding image quality?

Do they? I really need an answer ASAP.