HDMI-in Compatibility for NP8662 - BlackMagic Intensity?

EDIT: Thanks for all of the responses, everyone who contributed any help! I'm no longer searching for an option to record my PS3 at the moment, so you can let this thread die now.

Original Post:

Hi, everyone at NotebookReviews!
First, let me say that this is an awesome forum and that it is refreshing to see such a community as exists here.

Now that that's out of the way, on to my question:
I recently purchased a Sager NP8662/Clevo M860TU (details in signature) and I am interested in capturing HD video from my PlayStation 3 through HDMI (for speedrun-recording purposes, if you want to know). The only real solution I have found is the Blackmagic Intensity Pro.
Since this card connects via PCIe, I was thinking that it may be possible to install it in my NP8662 since there will be an empty PCIe slot as I didn't purchase Robson/Turbomemory.
Although this is a longshot and probably wouldn't work, does anyone here have any ideas about whether or not this could work? If not, are there any relatively inexpensive (i.e. less than $250) methods of capturing or recording 1080p output from my PS3?

Thanks for any input!

P.S. I also recently downloaded the Windows 7 RC and ordered Crysis: Maximum Edition, so if anyone wants any benchmarks, etc. run (I have some other games such as Halo: Combat Evolved and The Orange Box, too) with the latest Windows OS, then I would be glad to do that. Just try to be specific with configurations, etc. as I am relatively new to the benchmarking/high-end gaming scene.

P.P.S Woah, that's a lot of parentheses!

 

Welcome to the NBR forums.

Congrats on the new rig.

I think you are a bit confused.

Notebooks do NOT use desktop PCI or PCI-E cards.
... they are actually using miniPCI and miniPCI-E modules.

 

Alright, I was pretty sure that it would be incompatible; thanks for the info and the welcome.
The "good" news is that I probably wouldn't have purchased the Intensity anyways, since I spent most of my saved money on the notebook (I don't mind, though; I'd been saving for years for the reason of purchasing a solid work/gaming rig).

While I do consider myself relatively computer savvy software-wise, I am definitely not very well versed hardware-wise, so it's great to have resources such as these forums to gather more information with. I probably spent about 20 full hours within the last two months just researching different notebooks, components, resellers, etc. and I'm glad I did; I feel that my time and money have been well spent.

 

Hi there,

Unfortunately what you are asking can be accomplished with $500 and above, something to look at is the Matrox MXO2 Mini it should be around 490-500 USD. It works using express card for laptop use.

 

Alright thanks alexka. I guess since HDMI is relatively new it will take a while for recording devices to come down in price. I don't really mind at the moment since I'm not doing any professional video editing, but it still would be nice to have a simple, inexpensive solution to capture 1080p video. Until then, I'll be quite happy with the multitude of things my notebook is able to do, and how much better and faster it will be able to do them than my 9-year-old Pentum 4 desktop computer with integrated graphics and 1GB of RAM.

 

I know there are ~$400-$500 HD capture cards that have VGA and Component inputs.

I think they capture up to 480-720p.

Here is one I saw a friend using with his capturing:
- Canopus (Grass Valley) TwinPact100

here is a review for it:
http://www.dvuser.co.uk/content.php?CID=38

you can use your notebook's DVI port to convert it VGA (using a $2 DVI-VGA adapter).

 

If you want an external HDMI capture card, this is teh best priced one I can find with good reviews:
- Canopus (Grass Valley) ADVC-HD50

goes for ~$850

ADVC-HD50 Front


ADVC-HD50 Rear


Review here:
http://www.macworld.com.au/reviews/view/advc-hd50-video-converter-419

 

unfortunately, blackmagic is only for desktop pc and even on desktop,
you won't be able to capture any ps3 or xbox 360 games via-hdmi
with that card. it just won't let you(due to copy protection of hdmi) and you can only capture things
up to 1080i via-component cable for gameplay. really.. you have no idea..
blackmagic or most hd-capture card only let you capture uncompressed file
which requires like 100mb+ per second. you can simply forget about
it unless you have at least 3 fast hdd hooked up in raid 0 setting with
huge space. trust me. i have tried to capture games hd quality on desktop using blackmagic and it wasn't pretty. instead, i use happuage hd-pvr
device to capture things in hd. it's only $229 and you need both tv and computer to capture gameplay(up to 1080i via-component cable) but
you don't need anything other than that. it automatically convert file
into h.264 ts file as it captures(up to 12mb per second) and video quality is amazingly good.