Re: Composite video to USB gizmo at Aldi

Gripper wrote:
> "bland" <bland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
>
>> http://www.aldi.co.uk/special_buys/product_4712.html
>>
>> Manufacturer's description is VS-USB2800. Available elsewhere at
>> $39
>> http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=612720&CatId=1428
>> Handy to transfer recorded DVD's into a PC, when the DVD format is
>> hard to hack directly in software.
>
> There was a thread in uk.rec.video.digital a few months back when
> Aldi last sold these. I bought one and am very impressed with it. You
> must have USB 2 for it to work, and it does it's job well. Captures
> S-video or composite and l/r audio. It appears to Windows as a
> standard "imaging device", so can be used as a capture device in
> editing programmes (like Premiere), or as an input source for Windows
> Media Encoder, Windows Movie Maker, you can even use it in place of a
> webcam in Windows/MSN messenger. It can capture at 720x576 25fps to either
> MPG2 or AVI depending on
> software. Comes with "Power Producer" DVD authoring/burning/editing
> software, which is pretty good at what it does, and some other
> software (which didn't last long on my hard drive) that included a
> PVR type app. As "bland" mentioned, it has no qualms about
> Macrovision :) Highly recommended.
> hth
> Gripper

This sounds ideal for capturing VHS video to a PC for editing and archiving
to DVD. Is that right?


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