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109 of 110 found the following review helpful:
 Be smarter than what you are working on Aug 12, 2007
By FreeJeff
Once a guy told me, " You have to be smarter than what you're working on." That applies in this case. One reviewer said no audio. True. Apparently you can't monitor the sound during capture. One reviewer said the sound was AWFUL! So I capured a test video for one minute and then played it back. The sound WAS awful. Then I checked the audio volume level (line in) and it was at maximum. No wonder the sound was awful. After a few more test captures, I had the line in volume down to around two or three. Now the playback sound was AWESOME!
This product works good. I gave four stars because you can't monitor the sound. Oh, one more point I forgot. I had an older Video camera that was not stereo and the sound on playback came out of only one speaker. So using the words of wisdom from the beginning of this review, I plugged the camera into my VCR and then into the USB2800. Voila! The VCR took the mono signal from the camera and routed it to both outputs. I now had sound coming from both speakers, although it is not true stereo.
I guess the moral of the story is "Don't be too quick to judge the equipment, for the fault may be your own." Two thumbs up!
47 of 47 found the following review helpful:
 Not Disappointed Feb 18, 2007
By C. Smith
I was initially skeptical about this product because of it simple look and comparitively low price. I however went ahead based on the reviews I read. The video quality was poor and i couldn't get a resolution higher the about 320x3??. This was because I was using a 1000MHz PIII Intel processor, USB 1.1 connection with 256MB. I installed the device on another computer (installation is a breeze), with a 2.8GHz PIV Intel Processor, USB 2.0 connection and 512Mb memory and the picture was crystal clear, just like the VHS I was copying from. I used the software that came with the device, namely Ulead DVD Movie Factory 4. This device also works with Windows movie maker, and Nero, It even comes with PVR software. I ripped a movie that was 720x??? (This is great resolution). There are options of AVI, MPEG, DVD, VCD, SVCD formats for encoding.
In short the device works great, but don't use with an old PC like I did.
This is highly recommended!!
51 of 52 found the following review helpful:
Works Great Aug 26, 2005
By S. Shah
I have used this product for a few days and so far no problems. Hardware worked without any problems. Picture qualify of the captured video is awesome. I did not give 5 stars because of the software. Software is not so user friendly or intuitive and lacks editing functionality. I do not even use the bundled software to capture video - instead used Movie Maker and/or ArcSoft ShowBiz DVD.
So far, I used it only with Sony Hi8 camcorder. Planning on using it with VCR to convert VHS to DVD.
23 of 23 found the following review helpful:
Amazing for the price. Jun 07, 2007
By justsomeguy
All I wanted to do was to be able to transfer some old garbage from some video tapes onto my PC. This works great! It has the hookups for either the old-school red-yellow-white connectors, as well as an s-video hookup. The input to your PC is a usb port as well as a microphone/line-in plug. The included software isn't pretty, but it works great. In less than 5 minutes you'll be recording garbage onto your pc! The video quality is EXCELLENT and you have a number of choices for quality, screen size, video format, etc. It's perfect. Great item. Highly recommend it!
17 of 17 found the following review helpful:
Long search finally paid off Jan 17, 2008
By Eric Field
I searched long and hard for an inexpensive external video capture device to record movies from my DVR and other analog sources. I took a leap of faith with a product brand I had never heard of and with some mixed reviews. I honestly was expecting the worst. But I was pleasantly surprised. Installation was simple, just follow the very basic instructions. First I used windows Movie Maker using the setting for playback on lan 2.1 mbps, that didn't work, the video was choppy and missing frames. Next I used the Nero suite, which has the added benefit of keeping track of missing frames. The .AVI format when capturing was losing too many frames (Nero keeps a running counter of frames captured and lost.) I switched to MPEG 2, and it only lost the first 5 frames and then the rest was fine, I saved the captured file to my computer and then used Nero to burn to DVD and it took about 4 hrs, but when I played the movie back I noticed the audio wasn't synched up with the video, it was minor but enough to be annoying. Needless to say I was a little depressed. Finally I decided to give the CyberLink Power Producer (one of the included software suites), this time I used the "burn direct to disc" feature. I have a Dell Inspiron 1405E Core Duo processor, and my DVD burner is an external USB 2.0 Samsung. I captured video directly from my satellite receiver using the composite cables and the high-quality setting, it gave me around 1:05hrs for a 4.7GB DVD-R disc, when the recording was finished the writing process took less than 5 minutes. I popped out the disc and played it back on an Original XBOX, a Zenith portable and played back on my computer, the audio was perfectly synced and the video was of very good quality. I am very happy. I'm going to play around with some other settings and configurations, but as of right now I'm very satisfied with this product considering the low cost.
The Cons, the instructions are minimal for both the hardware and software, but I think normal users shouldn't have a problem, and yes the button on the device doesn't seem to do anything but I don't really care.
Hope this helps, I spent a good 2-3 weeks wracking my head over which product to buy. Remember, the capture device is only one element of the video transfer process, you should be willing to make coasters out of 3-5 DVDs, and to make sure that your cables, DVD players, and other components aren't the problem, before you give up on this product
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