Hello people, first time I'm writing here and not native English speaker. So forgive me if I'm not that good at expressing myself. That said I want to share the content of an article I read somewhere that (unfortunately) I do not remember anymore but I remember the guts of if and think it could be much useful for someone. The writer tested a lot of (not so) inexpensive PAL/NTSC USB and PCI converters and a few of expensive ones too. Suddenly he remembered that its Digital TV with PAL/NTSC input was _much_ better at displaying video that the video grabbers. To make a long story short he discovered that that was because of an internal analog to digital _and_ the FHD to HD digital downconverter that did the trick. The principle here is "always sample much more that what you want to obtain". The result is this: forget the explensive and inexpensive grabbers and buy: - one cheap HDMI to USB3 grabber (you can find models compatible with linux for ~10-20 euros / dollars) - one cheap PAL/NTSC (SCART) to HDMI converter (you can find models for ~10 euros/dollars) and that's all. It will also come handy for aquisition of video from reflex/mirrorless cameras and so on... Hope someone find this handy... -- Saluton, Marco Ciampa