Crazy Monitor idea for old Home Computers

[Tony Duell]

> Has anyone tried to plug an old Home computer into an Analog to Digital TV
> converter such as the Canopus ADVC-100, and then use a mondern computer
> with a Firewire port and video capture software as a monitor?

I can see no good reason why it wouldn't work (I assume said software 
displays the incoming video essentially in real time). 

But a well-known phrase involving sledgehammers and nuts springs to mind.

-tony