Just got a capture device working, except a lot of the video is way too dark to do anything useful with, as I feared.
I found a way to eliminate a lot of the grain and also boost the light levels in the picture, but it's all digital tomfoolery that will require a little bit of extra time and purchasing. Nothing to fear though as I've never done video anything before so next year we'll be better at this (again, assuming I make a return trip out there).
For now, please feel free to watch a bit of Rheytarian below (Windows media streaming). I think that's Mokman reading the questions.
http://www.rubberslug.com/misc/rheytarian.wmv
For you S-rank stalkers out there, you can get a slightly higher resolution video here (requires xvid, but if you download anime you probably already have it):
http://www.rubberslug.com/misc/rheytarian.avi
I thought of this little activity about 20 minutes before I went to sleep the night before my plane left... so it wasn't very well planned out. Next time, next time... *shakes fist*