: By 2012, technology shifted to PCI Express and USB, allowing for 1080p recording.
In the early '90s, recording your best gaming moments meant pointing a shaky camcorder at a flickering CRT television. If you were lucky, you might have wired your console into a , though you had no way to add commentary or share it beyond your living room. Today, the "best buy" for a modern gamer has evolved into high-performance external capture cards that plug directly into a USB port. The Evolution of the Capture Card video game recorder best buy
: Early 16-bit capture cards in the '90s struggled to hit even 15 frames per second (fps). : By 2012, technology shifted to PCI Express