[nicole_express]

"Grey is just closely spaced black/white lines" is an interesting problem to have; grey on the Apple II is always closely spaced lines, but the usual expectation is your TV will process it out (or just won't be high enough dot pitch to see the lines). So it seems like you might need a worse capture device?

These days I've been using a standalone AVerMedia ExRecorder 330 for HDMI captures, that's how the ones in the blog were captured (via the 5X, of course). The older blog posts I link to I think I was still mostly using an Elgato but it didn't work at all on Mac, so I can't imagine their Linux support is much better.

[deater]

the problem is I have a whole box of composite capture cards and only one actually does a reasonably good job. I feel like it'd get expensive doing the same thing with HDMI capture boards.

My other big problem with HDMI capture is trying to capture mockingboard audio at the same time, I forget if in your reviews you cover that aspect of things