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again, just dont expect perfect picture quality for such a cheap price, and you will be pleased. I am kind of amazed it digitizes in-line. I would actually give it 4 stars. I was not expecting much for this price, but it works perfectly and is easy to use. I captured lots of HI-8 clips that look prety good as far as holding its picture quality.
At one point the screen went blank, and I only got the installation going again when I noticed a tag in the jobs tray that reactivated the display.When I had trouble with the first one, I tried to contact the manufacturer, but when I finally found their website, I found that the "support chat room" is apparently permanently shut down. After about 1 hour it would lock up with a message: Encoder internal error:R:video:-2.I returned that unit and Amazon promptly replaced it with another one, at my request. The only way I got a full-length capture was in WMV format, which gives you a very blurry, frame-dropped, essentially unviewable result.I can't believe that neither of these units worked as promised--I bought it because of the good user reviews--so apparently it worked for someone. Well, I am now returning that one too.
Diamond VC500 One Touch Video Capture DeviceIf you want only very blurry WMV capture, then this is the unit for you. And my email went unacknowledged and unanswered.Fortunately Amazon is a great company and they are handling the problem prompt and courteously. The documentation is scanty and inaccurate--the instructions don't match what is showing on the screen. No matter what the ad says, I could not get it to capture in any other format.
I know a little about computers and captures and I even tried linking it to Nero, but that didn't work either. So save them any more problems--don't buy this thing. I bought one of these and after spending 3 days trying everything I could think of, (including uninstalling/reiinstalling 4 times and trying 4 different tapes, both commercial and home-made) I could not get it to capture a full-length video. I thought it was just one of those "bad apples in a barrel", and a different one would be OK.
as of right now, this device isn't compatible with justin.tv unless you download an app but the site tells you what to use. This is definitely worth picking up if you are new to the capturing/streaming world. The Ulead program that comes with it i heard was garbage so i never installed it but you may want to find some sort of Audio/Video recording program. i haven't tried using this on any other sites but i would imagine that it works. it was hard to decide what to buy since almost none of the reviews talk about using this with a game console. I bought this to use it as a streaming device for my Xbox 360, the audio and video quality is pretty good.
The problem with the game consoles is even with s video there really isn't much difference in quality but there is a little difference. The other problem I have is when I try to change the picture quality the picture goes really white. Installation was quick and easy and I have had no problems with it crashing or anything.
to play than it may not be a big deal. I have to keep exiting and bringing it up just to see the quality change. I wish there were hot keys or something that you wouldn't have to use the mouse to hit record.
I am running Vista 64 and was really surprised this thing installed on my computer. It does kind of hurt your eyes to look at but if you have it hooked to your t.v. It didn't start out like this but lately it just started doing it.Overall for the price it is a very nice option and it works great even though picture quality might not be up to par for some people.
I have ran my VCR to it and had no problems and also my game consoles. My issue with the device is that when my console is hooked to it there is a lot of blurring when there is something like moving the camera around going onscreen.
MultiMedia Help Desk.I suspect there needs to be a little work done to make the enclosed software compatible with Vista. I could find no drivers on the "diamondmm dot com" web site (if that was my problem); I could get no help from the "Knowledge Base;" and I was not able to get a response from the (U.S). The cables tested O.K. with my Multi-Meter, however, the best I could receive on my computer was very "spotty" sound and no video.
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