[ivtv-users] video "features" - how to remove?

[Tony Ross]

The PVR-500 card that I'm using apparently introduces two features that
don't exist in the original recordings, as evidenced by viewing on a regular
TV screen the VHS tapes that I'm capturing.

A thick black vertical band is on the entire left side of the video image,
and a thin band of distortion exists along the entire bottom.

What might be causing these features? Have I got a bad card?