I understand your perspective, but all that an individual does is take IP Camera software (that can support analog, as well) and install it on a PC and they now have a "DVR" - a networked DVR, granted - but a DVR none-the-less. Or - as we like to say - an NVR (Network Video Recorder). You can bring hybrid systems together, utilize the intelligence of IP cameras and support existing analog systems with video servers. That is where the industry has been going...away from capture cards.