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| Diamond VC500 One Touch Video Capture Device | 
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| Brand: Diamond Multimedia
Category: CE
List Price: $39.99
Buy New: $32.34
You Save: $7.65 (19%)
New (33) Used (1) from $32.34
Avg. Customer Rating:  75 reviews
Sales Rank: 309
Media: Electronics
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 10.5 x 2.8 x 8.5
Warranty: limited warranty, 12 months parts, 12 months labor
MPN: VC500
Model: VC500
UPC: 757448005080
EAN: 0757448005080
ASIN: B000VM60I8
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Inexspensive and works November 16, 2008
The VC500 has worked well for me. I've converted 11 years worth of VHS tapes to DVD without any problems.
 Not performing as expected - must manage your expectation November 16, 2008
The copy I got comes with the Ulead editing software version 10. I didn't bother trying it since my utmost priority is capturing quality.
Be forewarned that if you are using Vista, be disappointed unless you are running it on server class speed hardware. Anytime Vista is trying to do something (thus launching new and/or waking up an existing process) you could see the impact on the video. Even worst, if you happen to capture long programming, the audio will be noticably out of sync with the video starting around 25 minutes mark. I tried it on 4 different intel dual-core notebooks (3 are game-playing class notbooks, not the cheap sub-$1000 notebooks) and turned off everything possible (that includes killing spyware detector, virus checker, print spooler, screen saver, adobe daemon, iTunes daemons.... everything that Vista allows me to kill.......) but still having issue.
On 2nd experiment, I used the fastest notebook I have and installed Windows XP Professional SP2 (I didn't try SP3 since somebody said the capture software won't work on it). The results are way better but still the audio would start getting out of sync around 50 minutes mark.
The fact that the product is improperly shielded doesn't help neither. S-video is a must and not an option.
So to me, this is useless. I have much better luck (albeit more painful and time-consuming process) by using DVD recorder to capture the programme, then use DVD converter on my computer to convert it to MPEG4, WMA, etc. The quality is way way better - never an out of sync issue, and the overall is closest to original.
So if you just wanna capture some video to YouTube, some vintage quality home VHS (which the quality is low compare to recent playback technology anyway) that you ain't too crazy about, or if you are into video pirating (in which the downloading party typically watch it on computer and thus don't give much damn about quality anyway), you may find this tool very time-saving and convenient.
But if you wanna use it for archiving valuable programme (like, your wedding video, out of print TV program, etc), I am not sure about using this in lieu of a good DVD recorder.
The good comment: The tool is so easy to use, even an dummy could use it in a snap without getting an dummy how-to book.
 not user friendly November 3, 2008
The only thing good about this product is it is cheap. It was hard to download the entire video directly to my PC and the color pixel does not match my window vista. I end up returning this product since it is hard for me to operate with just one click of the button as it advertise. Maybe it will work for you, good luck.
 One Touch Video Capture November 2, 2008
Seems to be simple to use and does what it is supposed to do. So far I've only tested it and have not attempted to capture full VCR tapes.
No Support October 29, 2008
I installed the software in accordance with the instructions. This item did not work. I made sure my computer is compatible. There is no trouble shooting available in the directions and the directions that came with this item are horrible. There is no support available for this product. Stay away from this. Total waste of money.
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