USB Video Capture,Video Capture Card,RCA to USB Video Converter,VHS Mini DV VCR Hi8 DVD to Digital Converter for PC TV, MAC Windows Vista Compatible

Worked like a champ on Win 10.Great for saving old VCR tapes

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 bought this figuring it's worth the risk at such a low price. In years past, it was a nightmare trying to get this simple type of analog composite video input (and corresponding stereo audio input) to function with any up-to-date Windows computer, because of drivers and other random problems. Thankfully, the situation has fully matured and there are simply no more problems.I would normally be very picky about image quality, but the implicit reality of digitizing/converting low-quality video is that it actually doesn't matter much! This product (and its hundreds of equivalents) faithfully captures the low quality of, e.g., a VHS composite video output at a mere 640 x 480p SD resolution.And indeed, as many note -- and even DIGITNOW's documentation suggests -- the option to simply use the open-source, free program OBS is your best-case scenario. This product works flawlessly and instantly with OBS.Overall, a pleasant surprise. Be aware, however, that the separate left and right audio inputs imply stereo sound delivery. This is actually a fraudulent move by the manufacturer: they had a responsibility to warn that their product is actually incapable of reproducing discrete stereo sound, and instead, sums up the left and right channels into a mono signal. This product will destroy your original stereo source by reducing it down to monaural sound. Wasn't a problem for me, but could be for you.

Once the item arrived I could not get to use it as soon as I would have liked. None the less I finally did and the product did not work! The disc that was in the package was only for Windows! OMG! This was my second attempt with a device to transfer videos to digital. I contacted the company through their support [email protected] They responded in a timely manner within 24 hours and sent me instructions on how it does work on Mac. I am so grateful that the item works and I do not have to do a 3rd attempt at digitizing old footage! Thank you DigitNow!

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.

I have a VHS tape that was passed down from our past family historian of my great uncle and his accomplishments especially of opening up the Alaskan frontier and I'd like to digitize it. Stuff like this needs to be available to our kids and grand kids to, instead of disappearing on some dusty shelf.So I ordered this converter.The user manual has instructions in English, German, Spanish, Italian, and French. However, I did not use the instructions at all. I just plugged the converter into my laptop's USB port, where Windows 10 installed the driver automatically. I connected a VHS player to the converter with a composite patch cord. And then I did my own thing. Since I'd rather not install software I am not familiar with, I did not install any of the recommended software mentioned in the instructions. Instead, I used VLC (the video player software) that I already have installed and trust. In VLC, I selected Convert/Save under the Media menu bar and selected the Capture Device tab, where the converter is selected under Device Selection. The VHS tape video was successfully converted to a MP4 format.I can't comment on the video quality, since the the original quality was terrible, but it was reproduced the same. I suspect that better quality input video would reproduce fine up to the stated 720 resolution.