Avid cripled down the 'scrubbing on client monitor' feature starting with version 5. This is by design and there is no known solution yet(except for MOJO or a DV device). bogie

Upgrade your memory to 2GB and your internal harddrive to a 7200RPM(~300$ in total) bogie

His benchmark is in MB(megabytes)/sec which roughly means 8 DV streams. But I too think his USB drives are at fault. bogie

There is one out there, from AJA, ~1200$. http://www.aja.com/hd10c.htm bogie

Richard, Here's the info: PE371UAR#ABA Refurbished HP xw8200 XPP X 3.2GHz 160GB 512MB DVD-CDRW fx1300 Rmkt WS $1,249 So yes, it does have the FX1300, a 160GB system drive, even a rackmount kit. FYI, this Workstation can host up to 5 internal 3.5" drives and 3 5.25" bays. Please don't get me wrong, I'm not praising HP, as I have built&overclocked

You seem to be very determined to go your way and didn't even bother to look at the link I provided. Good luck then! bogie

Before you spend the money, please check this out: http://h71016.www7.hp.com/dstore/html/hpremarketing/Workstations-daily.asp?anchor=workstation And from that list, look at PE371UAR#ABA. Add two Kingston KTH-XW8200/1G memory modules and you're good to go. Top performance, great bandwith, multiple PCI segments, full on site 1yr. warranty for less than

yep, you can install it on as many computers as you like. It will run only on the one that has the dongle attached. bogie

oops, I realized it's for Mac only just after I let it go. sorry... bogie

Try the HDVxDV capture and conversion utility. It's 80$ and allows you to convert to QT. bogie