Thanks for all your feedback everyone - well appreciated.

Right - I've got the USB connected, but the Picture Package software that came with it will only allow me to send it straight to CD-R (CD-RW and DVD-R/RW doesn't work according to the manual). I find it kind of wierd that it wont allow me to write to my HDD, but heyho! As I haven't got any CD-Rs with me, I can't test it, but the sound in the USB streaming tool was awful - very very echoey.

I've got a firewire connection on my PC (it's got 6 pins), so I guess I should be looking to buy one of these? http://tinyurl.com/9sc2u

I've just tried Pinnacle Studio (v9) and I can capture to HDD, but the quality of video is poor (sound is okay this time) - max res is 720 x 576, and even this setting is eating up my HDD like no mans business (roughly 1Mb per second!). So even if this firewire device gets me better video, am I in the same boat for HDD space?

This cant be right seeing as I have seen quality videos that are say 5 minutes long and only take up 25MB or so.

Advice, as always, welcome.

Thanks again.
aishwarya

can u give me the answer for this