My laptop isnt good enough to run and record at the same time without causing lag and recently iv been playing a lot of emulated PS1/PS2 games.

I was thinking of picking up the Nvidia TV and plugging in a capture card so my Laptop is just recording without having to handle the emulator but its a lot of money and I don't want to waste it.

Any advice or alternatives would be appreciated. Thanks.

If the goal is a capture card, I’d recommend a gv-usb2. It’ll be about $40 or so, but it’s good quality and it’ll capture composite and s-video which is all you need for capturing PS1/2 games. You could also look into a powered splitter to split the signal to a TV so you can play off of that. Then all the laptop is doing is recording.

No need to break the bank if you’re just trying to capture SD quality video. I built my old SD setup for about $50-$60 total.