Capture Card, USB Video Capture Card Device, Audio Video Converter Grabber for RCA to USB-Convert VHS Mini DV VCR Hi8 DVD to Digital, for PC TV Tape Player Camcorder, MAC Windows Vista Compatible

This product is truly a plug-in play product and works exactly as described. I have a MacBook Pro running the latest software update, and there was no problems, recognizing the video dongle or running the QuickTime software with it. The video quality is good considering that I am converting 30-year-old VHS tapes

I tried several others before this brand and this works great! I was going to purchase the other brand “e” but it was double the price and you didn’t have the option to choose your software choice to convert. Plus I was also able to adjust the settings 720/1080 vs other brand which didn’t allow that. The directions are step by step and walks you through connection. However, the one downside is if you run into trouble/issues you’re on your own. I had an issue with sound and echoing which was initially terrible but I figured out how to fix that (after several long aggravating hours) again because no troubleshooting guide/help/manual. With the sound finally fixed I’m now able to record my hi8 tapes using obs with the help of YouTube tutorials and now I’m on my 8th tape transfer to digital already. Great product, comes with everything you need to connect and it works! You are getting a great device for a much better price and more options what’s not to like? Glad I gave this a try.

$10 for a video grabber? Amazingly enough, yeah, it's just about what the other reviews say. It works pretty well. The software is buggy. It worked well enough the first time I tried it, then after I fiddled with the settings a bit it refused to display the incoming video. It still captured the incoming video, but I never got the incoming video display to work again. And your options for file types and codecs are stuck in the '90s. Long videos are split into multiple files (so they fit on a DVD). If you look at the dozens of other $10 to $20 video grabbers, they all come with the same software. I contacted the vendor for this product and asked what the difference might be between this and the $20 video capture device that they sell. They said they are identical except for the look of the hardware. In the end, I returned it for a full refund and paid $90 for the elgato video capture device. Much better software and higher quality video capture (for almost 10 times the price).

I am absolutely thrilled with this fantastic little device! I'm in the process of creating a memorial video for my dear friend, and I needed to digitize a 30-year-old VHS tape. My existing VCR/DVD combo unit involved a cumbersome process of burning DVDs and then transferring them to my MacBook Pro (2022). This device has completely streamlined that workflow! Just a quick note for other users: out of the box, the included cables didn't directly connect to my VCR. I needed to acquire a set of male RCA cables (yellow, white, red) to bridge the connection between my VCR and this device. Despite my limited technical expertise, I was able to set it up easily. I am so relieved and happy that this worked! I now have my precious footage digitized and the audio sounds great too! I had previously started converting old VHS tapes but disliked the intermediate DVD burning step. This device is a game-changer, allowing for direct digitization to my laptop. Highly recommend!

I have a large collection of vhs tapes and I want to digitize them before my remaining VCRs die off. I’ve been looking for an adequate solution for this, and I’m happy to say I’ve found it. It’s not this adapter though. I tried this adapter, and it works ok at first, until the signal starts to show what looks like interference before it cuts out. And it takes a while for it to come back. Needless to say, with an unstable signal, it’s not good with long recordings for archival purposes, let alone being worth the money. So I tried an composite to hdmi converter. I was initially skeptical of this solution, but when I tried it, not only did the picture look fine and the signal was completely stable, but it did such a convincing job at upscaling you would almost mistake the VCR for displaying in the 16:9 aspect ratio instead of 4:9. I am able to use the composite to hdmi converter with an hdmi capture card and it works well enough for my needs. There is some stretching noticeable with the upscaling, but I was pleasantly surprised with how good it looks. And with a VHS tape, especially old ones, you’ll be noticing the artifacts and interference on the recording itself more then you will the stretching. So long story short, before you buy this adapter, consider using a composite to hdmi converter with an hdmi capture card. It works surprisingly a lot better then this composite capture card, which you would think, and I did too, that it’s the opposite way around.

Windows 10 new the drivers. Plugged what I wanted into it and it worked right out of the box. Have not had any issues with it

It's hard to rate this. The Grabber hardware works perfectly. Honestech software does not recognise the hardware it comes with. Software says the Camera device cannot be used. It is a great value for the hardware but zero value for the software. VHS to DVD Transfer with GRABBER and ZOOM Around 2010 I transferred a large number of VHS home videos and commercial movies to DVD using a specialized hardware device and accompanying software. Go forward to 2021. While cleaning out all the old VHS tapes I ran across several movies I had not transferred. I can not find the original device kit I used 10 year ago. I bought the DIGITNOW transfer kit from Amazon for $10. Hardware is USB 2.0 Grabber dongle. Software.is Honestech. I was sorely disappointed with the result. The Grabber shows up in WIndows 10 as a Camera device, AV TO USB 2.0 and an audio device, USB 2.0 MIC. Attempting to record the VHS output the Honestech software says the “camera device can not be used”. I recalled that ZOOM records camera videos. I was able to configure the ZOOM client to use the GRABBER devices. The audio had to be configured for Original Sound. For this to work the Grabber Honestech software has to be installed to provide working drivers for the camera and audio. Burning a usable DVD from the captured .mp4 file is another matter. The Honestech burning software does not recognise any of the common video formats. It must be using a proprietary file marker from the transfer. There is no freely available software to render and burn such video files to a DVD. The best solution is available from the Microsoft Store on Windows 10. Install Movie Maker Video Editor and then upgrade to Movie Maker Pro for $14.99 that comes with DVD Creator. It all just works. The only issue so far is the DVDs will not play on the 1988 SONY DVD player attached to the VHS player I use. The DVDs play just fine on my 2009 SONY Bluray player and on PC DVD devices. Go figure. I can transfer my VHS to DVD at a total cost of about $25.

We tested multiple brands of USB and PCIE capture cards to compare quality. While this one was the cheapest priced, its video quality was on par or better than cards 5-6x the price. We mainly checked for artifacting and color fringing on the video output. We did not test sound. The USB extension was a nice inclusion to prevent the adapter from breaking off if bumped while plugged into your machine. Lastly, this was only 1 of 2 adapters we tested that showed up as a webcam imaging device in windows automatically and did not require any driver installation.