DIGITNOW! Video Capture Card Converts Hi8 VHS to Digital DVD for Windows/Mac, Video Grabber with Scart/AV Adapter

When I say "this one", it's because if you're looking for a good and simple capture card I would recommend this model over the more expensive ones and definitely wouldn't bother with the £5.00 Easycap versions I'm convinced that the Chinese Communist party will eventually conquer the west, not by stealth or force of arms but just by giving us all nervous breakdowns due to us snapping up assorted things that turn out to be shyte and won't work after a weekend of trying every permutation of cables, ports, Windows versions and ecen laptops. Such is the lesson of 'you get what you pay for' learned.This one, however, really IS ok. It wouldn't play pictures on my new Acer with the latest Windows but seemed far happier on ny HP Pavilion g6 which has an older version. Both pictures and sound were very good and I doubt you'd get better quality north of £70.00 or a hundred bucks. One thing I REALLY thought was great was that as soon as you save the project you can just drag it onto the desktop and it instantly becomes an MPeg file complete with thumbnail.The software is basic but all you really want is something that better software like PowerDirector will accept, right?. On that note, Cyberlink doesn't recognise it by detection on its Capture setting so you can't cheat and use Cyberlink to capture your VHS from the off but you can drag and drop the MPeg into Cyberlink later.On the whole, not a bad little device at all.

First off, this did not work on my Macbook despite stating it would. The drivers/software are too old for the latest Catalina OS, it simply refused to install so this was a dead end. This was in December 2019.Fortunately I had a Windows 10 PC and the drivers/software loaded fine but I HAD to use their software, I tried to do capture via VLC but it refused to see the incoming Audio device but this was not a big deal as their own software worked fine for the actual capture.Read the manual that comes with it and follow it to the letter, do not deviate as it may not work otherwise.Hooked up my old VCR, pressed play on it and then hit the Capture button. Once captured, I was able to export it as an MP4 file and drop this into iMovie on the Macbook for editing.Very pleased for it considering the price, converted 25 VHS tapes and 10 camcorder tapes straight to digital!I am unsure why others were unable to get this to work but mine was fine. Windows 10 PC, install their driver/software that comes with it and ensure you use the software to do the capture.

Converts analogue video to even lower resolution digital recordingThe first kit I received didn't work. After multiple attempts to get any meaninglful support from the seller, I asked for a refund. In the end I was send a replacement. Although the replacement had the exact same part number, the instructions were different, the software on the supplied CD was different and the name of the device when it showed up on Device Manager - so clearly a different piece of kit badged as the same product.No attention to detail in the quality.Despite choosing the 720 x 576 resolution for the file, the actual recorded file can be clearly seen to be a resolution that is about half that = about 260 lines instead of 576.There was also a really bad comb effect on any motion. This looked far worse that the standard artefacts you'd get from normal deinterlaced problems and occurred in square blocks. The effect was much coarser that you would expect from that.For me this was not an adequate method to archive some old camcorder tapes onto a harddrive.In the end I bought a thunderbolt to firewire adaptor from Apple for my Macbook and some firewire adaptor plugs. This cost a bit more but archives the original video at the same quality as the original recording. The files will still need to be deinterlaced but I'm planning on doing this after I've got all the original tapes copied to a video file.

A very useful package in terms of the hardware required to make good quality transfers from VHS to digital, with all the cables and connectors likely to be needed. However, the supplied software options could be much better. Windows users should ideally download the recommended OBS alternative whilst there is nothing included for Mac users (despite an Apple logo on the CD). That said, this device does work perfectly with a Mac - being immediately recognised and the relevant drivers added automatically - with video capture using Apple's QuickTime and any subsequent editing using iMovie. Hence a decent package at a good price and therefore recommended.

Worked flawlessly, once I got OBS setup correctly. Copied half a dozen Video-8 cassettes with it and everyone was very impressed with the results. Transferring ye olde analogue recordings to digital and having them shown on enormous modern day telly's is never going to do the original recordings any favours, but for £20, this works great.

The capture usb device seems to work well. The phono plugs gave better quality than the S-Video connector which I found odd. Quality is only as good as the VHS tapes though.The sound drops out sometimes and is sometimes garbledThe scart adapter was broken and didn't plug into my vhs player - fortunately I had another in my spares.The manual is out of date and didn't match what I was seeing when using Pot64All in all a reasonable device, but stars deducted due to the broken scart plug

Very good for such a little piece of kit, Scart is supplied as well as spdif - however the CD that has the software you don't need - you can download it as I did by using OBS studio - make sure the settings are right for the UK - under AUDIO MIXER you have 3 options Desktop audio_ Mic/Aux _ Video Capture - click om the cog wheel in video capture - set audio monitoring to OFF- OFF - and Monitor only. the under sources USB VIDEO and customize your resolution to old skool VHS 4:3 which is 720x576 at 25 FPS or wide screen 16:9 at either 1280 x 720 or 1920 x 1080. bobs your uncle and fannies your aunt! Bosch