I need someone to recommend me two things-- a cell phone and a capture card

[RayAP19]

-As far as the cell phone, I want a Blackberry type of phone. I'm no expert, so basically what I'm saying is any phone with a keyboard (a physical one on the phone or one that can be used via touch screen) that doesn't have to flip or slide open (unless there's a button to flip/slide it open-- then I don't mind. I just don't like doin it myself ). I wanna spend as little money as possible, but I'd still like people to recommend anything regardless of cost. I don't need much, just to be able to make and receive phone calls, texts and maybe take pictures. I'm willing to buy it almost anywhere online (eBay, official site, whatever)

-The capture card, I just need something basic once again. I just want to be able to capture HD footage from my television and put it onto my laptop.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions

[GAMEC0CK2002]

Re: I need someone to recommend me two things-- a cell phone and a capture card

Phone depends on what provider you have.

Video capture can be done with HAVA titanium, HD tivo, and Western Digital HD media player among others.

[RayAP19]

Re: I need someone to recommend me two things-- a cell phone and a capture card

I wanted someone to recommend me specific appliances

[gschwendt]

Re: I need someone to recommend me two things-- a cell phone and a capture card

For the capture device, I have experience with both Hava Platinum and Hauppauage HD-PVR. Both are good devices, both allow you to capture an HD source, the difference is though that the HD-PVR captures its footage in HD while the Hava captures in SD.

That may seem a bit confusing but with the Hava, yes, you can play your games in HD while capturing in SD. It downgrades the resolution for your captured video files to 720x400.

Here's a Hava sample (NCAA08):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrTzmsem9Bg&hd=1

Here's an HD-PVR sample (NCAA10):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w88R4asgRBg&hd=1