Question: In the past, some of my projects have required me to create a movie version of a fullscreen Flash application. The easiest way to do this has been to get a screen capture. However, capturing anything over 1024x768 has resulted in choppy video, which is unacceptable. I understand that there are hardware based solutions for capturing fullscreen video, but I have not been able to find out what these are. My output needs to be scalable up to 1920x1080 and result in an uncompressed AVI file with no choppy-ness.

Answer: 
If the Flash application is non-interactive, there are many tools that can get non-realtime capture (but completely smooth and perfect) to either an AVI file or a series of PNGs.

If it is interactive and you absolutely need realtime capture, FRAPS might actually be able to do the job, at least on Vista, where its not usually that difficult to manipulate FRAPS into recording various non-DirectShow applications by using Aero as a graphics layer.
[Phillips dvdr3575h](http://www.google.com/products/catalog?rlz=1C1GGLS_enUS291&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=dvd+recoreder+hdd&um=1&cid=9245182892068372171&sa=X&oi=product_catalog_result&resnum=1&ct=result#ps-tech-specs) and other set-top boxes may be the simplest. However, I don't believe they support the resolution you are looking for.