Pinnacle Video Transfer
$49.99 + $5 Shipping
Condition: Refurbished
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Will this item enable me to make copies of retail copy-protected region 1 digital versatile discs?
So wait. My kid could record his video game sessions and put it on a flash drive?
How does it connect to the games and which systems does it work for?
He’s into recording “glitches” and posting them on youtube but has taken my camera. I’d like to get it back.
If anybody knows, please let me know.
Given Apple’s fairly strong machine-based limitations on iTunes media, I’m not altogether sure I understand the purpose of this product.
I already have one of these, I find it pretty handy to transfer video to my ipod, don’t have to mess with my computer… Seems like a pretty good price
i guess it might be nice to transfer old VHS to digital and ditch the VCR
Can I use this to record live from my video camera to a external hard drive bypassing the need for tapes?
Why? What good is this. . . . And Why is it freeking $49?
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So wait. My kid could record his video game sessions and put it on a flash drive?
How does it connect to the games and which systems does it work for?
He’s into recording “glitches” and posting them on youtube but has taken my camera. I’d like to get it back.
If anybody knows, please let me know.
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would be perfect for that, would probably just need a splitter so he could see the game and record at the same time…
I bought one of these a year ago. If you are going to record “clips” that are less than 5 minutes – it works okay. However, if you are going to record clips longer than 5 minutes, the audio gets WAY off from the video. Quite annoying to watch after that.
I’d stay away!
I mean – everyone buy 3!
Does it have any limits to how long you can record, or how much space it can hold?
I have one of these (for what it’s worth) and it does what it says it does quite well. Paid a little more for mine, but it was a new model at the time. This seems a little pricey for a refurb, but what do I know?
Yes, that’s pretty much what you can do with it. You just need something to store the video on, like a flash drive or external hard drive.
I’d call it an “external MPEG4/H.264 compressor”. Sending analog video in one end (composite or s-video) produces an MPEG4 stream out the other end (literally - nice design Pinnacle!).
That MPEG4 stream can then get dumped onto a USB storage device (hard drive, flash drive, SD card adapter, etc…) or a Firewire storage device (iPod, hard drive, etc…).
I purchased one of these a year or so ago from woot. Even with the “secret” mode (activated by saving a blank text file on the root directory with the name of best.txt) it still is pretty bad. If you plan to use this on a 13" CRT then your probably fine. The problem is that the interlacing looks terrible on my PC LCD monitor, my two LCD TVs and my plasma. If I can recommend something Im very happy with the Hauppauge HD PVR 1212, it even does HD with DD 5.1 at 720p and 1080i. If you keep an eye on dealnews.com you can scoop it up for round $150 and free S&H.
3 out of 5 star rating on Amazon. Video quality and recognizing certain devices were issues mentioned.
this thing is a great idea, but a terrible product. i bought one off woot about a 10 months ago or so. it has a hard time with large usb drives… didnt really work with my portable hard drives. video recording is terrible. i have a sony handycam i was trying to convert all my tapes with and this thing would stop recording everytime the tape/video quality got bad. any time the screen went blue it stopped recording… and you cant over ride it to make it record everything, goood or bad (i was gonna use my editing software to clean up the bad stuff… i didnt need it dictating what to record or not). i upgraded the firmware but it didnt help. there are a lot of threads with people having similar problems as well. so yeah… basically a waste of money. wound up buying a canopus ADVC300… expensive, but it works.
awesome little concept… would have been nice if it functioned.
HAHAHA, theres better ways of doing that, look up dvd shrink 3.2 and handbrake (handbrake is optional, ie not nescesary)
I’m not sure I understand - why would this be necessary? Why wouldn’t he be able to see the game as he plays it? Because of the signal inputs?
What kind of splitter?
We have a gamebridge but it never worked because our PCs are either hard-wired or netbooks and the gamebridge requires a computer. I’d really love for this to work for him.