MVR-1000 I give the Card an 8 out of 10 now: -1 for slooow support - still waiting. -1 for the fact that Media Cruise is loosing the PAL setting (display bogus prev. settings after a restart of mediacruise!) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Do you suffer from jagged lines in PAL and your settins "Appear correct?", When you restart the program Media Cruise it appears that your prev. settings are retained but it is just an illusion !!!! It is actual producing NTSC video at 720x480 instead of the PAL 720X576 as initial configured and you thought it retained! (It's displaying your selection but it's not REAL). How I fixed it - reloaded Mediacruise, set desired MPEG2 settings - Ie Pal, fixed 720x576, GOP closed and my desired 5000-9000 VBR - Save settings. THEN EVERY TIME YOU RESTART MEDIACRUISE "LOAD" the save settings. The issue is fixed. At last I can enjoy a quality convertion hooray! I wonder if Canopus support will come up with the same solution? I think I will try emailing them.