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Quite a contrast from other reviews, but honestly, this box works wonderfully! I've been using it for the last six months transferring all my old VHS tapes to DVD video and burning them to disc with my DVD-R. Reccomendations I can give to other owners or those considering purchasing it: Go straight away to their website and get the latest driver and the latest version of CapWiz for maximum performance. Also, ensure that you plug it directly into the machine and not a hub, and make sure NO other USB devices are plugged in with it. It's a beautiful box but it eats up almost all of the USB total bandwidth when you use it.

Beyond that it's worked perfectly for me every time at a standard rate of 4Mbps and I can't reccomend it more highly. Setup is easy if you follow the wizards in the updated software, and you can't go wrong with it.

I am extremely happy with this product. It is extremely easy to use and comes with all the software you need to capture, edit, and burn your videos to DVD. This external device captures and compresses your videos to MPEG-2 (DVD-quality) so it takes up less disk space on your computer because the video already comes in compressed. And, it does not drop any frames. You can then edit and save your videos with no loss of quality whatsoever. Well worth it considering its low price!

This product is a good idea. However, the software is not easy to use. Unless you have a very powerful PC, and get installation right the first time, you'll be in trouble. Included documentation is of little help and Tech support is a dead end (not to mention arrogant).

I bought this product about a year ago and it has worked great for me! Installation was easy, no problems. It captures great video in Windows 98 and Windows Me. However, in Windows XP, I was not able to capture video at 5 mb/s, only at 3 mb/s and 4 mb/s. I was able to convert my entire analog video collection with outstanding quality to DVD with this product. The only thing that annoyed me is that it captures video at 704 x 480 instead of 720 x 480, requiring a conversion of some type before it is able to be burned on to a DVD.

I have a 1.7gig P4 running XP and found this product to be very unstable which is a nice way to say it doesn't work. The hardware would always hang my computer no matter which software I used with it. Also a note to their clueless tech support, my Maxtor hard drive was the cause for the sound and video being out of sync, when I reinstalled XP using a Western Digital drive the sync problem went away but not the instability. Believe Microsoft when they say use of an unsigned driver may make your system unstable.