The stick has advantages and disadvantages that have been enumerated here have to suffice, so I'm no longer a fact. However, it should say that you necessarily should purchase an RCA to 3.5mm adapter if you opt for this type of streaming sticks.
I bought the stick mainly to digitize old VHS tapes, and the service does the stick after some adjustment phase also. First, the stick came in a nice box with magnetic closure seemingly easy to lay by a small briefing, the stick itself and lots of cables and adapters as well as a CD. Some here complain that no guidance was doing or that the small pieces of paper was not detailed. So I know what it feels like as a newbie, but you can get really stupid do ... Especially if you buy something where you have to rewire or just has the hardware is no longer just for Windows huppifluppi etc., should be prepared the must be tinkered something so that everything runs.
After I plugged the stick, and first put the CD into my CD drive, I came straight to the installation. Complaints about lack of serial numbers or the S-video output does not work I can not understand, the wizard will also offer a Serial to copy! If you take just NEN Notepad and pastet the fast times just in there, what's the problem? Giant notes and even graphics in the Setup program explicitly point of the S-video output on Windows 7 64-bit is not working. Some are apparently color-blind, or simply click dull continue without reading ...
The installation was completed and the stick was involved apparently first ... After a reboot, I noticed, however, that then was an exclamation point in the Device Manager. But is not a problem been, just continue simply "Update Driver" manually using a right-click, and then click the "Driver" button and let the search stuff from your hard drive. Only then the drive is running properly. Bit fiddly but well, just is an experimental driver for hardware that just yet knew at the time, no x64 systems ...
Now we come to the software which I frankly, after I read the reviews here, have not even installed because that's apparently nothing half and nothing whole. So I got to "Golden Videos New Recording Wizard" gripped, a freeware which does the same as the supplied software, and also to save as a file on the computer allows.
When I started the program for the first time, I initially had only a black and white picture and no sound. The black and white image I corrected as I have just in of the downloaded software, see "Recording source" first set to "PAL" and had then placed under "Setting" the whole shebang on "PAL / BDGHI", and then check the box "Manual" was ticked, where I set the option "720x576, 30.00fps, YUV". The case arises a small blue stripe on the side is normal and hardware related, but you can later safely with VirtualDub or retouch another video processor ...
The problem was solved so that I finally had color image ... However, there was the problem for the sound ... And that is the big negative factor. The intigrated "USB Audio Source" is in the stick apparently somehow defective. Even under Windows XP, I've made the stick just crackle and get noise. That's why my top tip: Be sure to order a RCA to 3.5mm jack adapter or buy more in any good hardware store. Then that you may connect the Red and White RCA cable coming from the SCART adapter, and plugged the RCA jack adapter into your microphone input on the PC. The microphone input, and line-in "called, is usually edged with pink! Now listen practically your soundcard the VCR and you can in the program under" Recording source "as the audio source your sound card. Thus you have sound you choose to hold still needs, and color image on Windows 7 x64.
One should, however, be even more specifically to the PC with you absorb. He should already have at least SATA or SCSI hard drives. Every modern computer has nowadays. That is why because, for real-time encoding and storage of the write access to the hard drives must be fast. I myself had the pleasure of doing what comes out when on a PC ensures the videos his only has IDE, so these flat cables has since. The stored video from and to juddered.
So do not blame the stick but think times. The stick is nothing people who think a Plug & Play Stick who can but you have to address it. So rather nothing for Kathe Ingeborg and Friedrich Wilhelm who want to save their old times Super8 videos from the 60s up without effort. There are far more expensive offers that just are not as complicated as this one. And even among us for 12 euros can not expect very much one. If you do it right, then you have caught a great bargain. 4 stars from me - a deduction for the non-working tone.
