Roxio Easy VHS to DVD 3 Plus | VHS, Hi8, V8 Video to DVD or Digital Converter | Amazon Exclusive 2 Bonus DVDs [Windows]

You get what you pay for…
I previously owned a VHS to digital converter that I liked really well, but it only worked on my really old Dell desktop (circa 2003). But when the video card died in it, I tried to install it on my new laptop and it wouldn’t work. Thus, I tried this product because I didn’t want to waste a lot of money buying an entirely new kit with a VCR which I didn’t need since it came with my last kit.Onto this product:PROS: 1) Simple install (pop the disc in and follow prompts, or go to their Web Site and download the software). Plug converter into your computer and (USING YOUR OWN RCA or S CABLE) plug into your camcorder or VCR. (I ended up buying a cable from Walmart for about $8.00 to make it work)2) Fairly simple user interface: The screen is pretty self-explanatory. Large record button, and tabs across the top tell you which part you’re on in the process.CONS: 1) It won’t let you change the name of your video file once you have started recording. For several of my first attempts, I didn’t see the place to put the name in until after I’d started, but it won’t let you change it in the program.2) Progream seems simple enough to use, however, it DOESN’T work properly! I successfully transferred 2 tapes then went to do the 3rd one. I have tried FOUR times now. It looks like it’s recording then when it automatically stops at the end of the tape (good feature theoretically), the program gets forever stuck on the “finishing” step. I literally let it sit there for more than 2 hours to “finish” a 30 min video recording and it never did! I had to force a shutdown, which of course lost the video I’d recorded. Over and over again this happened. I am so fed up I’m ready to return it and buy another one! This is ridiculous and I never had problems with my old one!3) Video quality is terrible. Again, using the VCR from my previous purchase, which includes the lovely old-school “tracking” buttons to try to get rid of those annoying lines across the tape, I have had ZERO success it making any tangible difference to the tape quality. And from my previous lovely four attempts on the same video (from 1999), I can tell you how incredibly INCONSISTENT the video quality is on the program! Some attempts were much clearer than others, and i had to keep rewinding to try to get to the start of the tape again and when it re-recorded, the lines would be across the entire thing all of a sudden (when they weren’t there before) or the video would freeze, even though the tape was clearly still playing behind it! AND, it kept cutting out as though there is a short in the cord. The screen would just suddenly flash “no video feed detected” even though it was still playing. It was usually only for a second or two, but sometimes was as long as 10 seconds or longer. Ridiculous!! Both this product and the RCA cable I used, were BRAND NEW. I suppose there is a chance that the RCA cable from Walmart was defective, but I have no way of knowing that.4) Claims to be able to export video files in MPEG, which is what I wanted since I will be sharing these home video files with family who own a variety of equipment to view them on, but that feature doesn’t work either! (and my laptop is a year old, so it isn’t that) It will only allow me to export a video file in WMV which makes it specific to windows users without a conversion program.So…overall, don’t waste your money. Go the more expensive route and get the entire system with the included VCR rather than this piece of junk. If i even bother to try to keep using it, it’s going to take me another 20 years to get the small box of tapes transferred to digital (if it ever works.)

Will it work on your PC? That’s the Question
Very Important to Know Before Purchasing: I had a version of this from about 8 years ago. CD install, but my Higher End HP PC doesnt have a DVD drive, like most computers today. Tried transferring it onto a flash drive from an older PC. It installed but needed to download some old Windows framework, and that crashed my new computer, and the old Video Grabber wouldnt show up on the PC either. So here I go, buying a newer version, this one. THIS NEW VIDEO GRABBER WOULD NOT WORK ON MY WINDOWS 11 and kept forcing the PC to auto restart every time I plugged in the Video grabber to USB 2.0 or 3.0, didnt matter. “Driver Conflicts”. Had an idea – Would the newer Software download, work with my older Video grabber? Absolutely Works and I’m recording old VHS tapes to digital no problem. THE LESSON and TIP HERE. If you have an older version of this, just go to their Roxio website to Downloads, and download the VHS to DVD software, and use the Video Grabber you already have. You wont pay a dime. The software doesnt even require a serial to be punched in. Basically, I lost $70 here to discover that. Might return this purchase since the New Grabber is crashing my PC.

Lo uso para lo que es, para pasar videos análogos a digital.

Es para win 32bits