ADS Instant DVD USBAV700

Pros: Breakthrough product, one of a kind

Cons: Need a power switch, better user instructions

The Bottom Line: nice piece of hardware, in needing of more user friendly/useful software for VCD/SVCD creation.

Review: If you have boxes and boxes of home movie video tapes sitting in the basement rutting away. You would think of a way to transfer them to a more permanent form, such as CD/DVD. Until recent I have found such a product, which is call UBS Instant DVD by...

Pros: External USB device, front and rear inputs, rear outputs

Cons: No Power switch, circuit board inside in not securly mounted to the case

The Bottom Line: Hardware seems good, but software SUCKS! Can't use Adobe Premier to capture, and audio sink was not there. Very complicated user interface

Review: The system I used to evaluate this product was a P3 500 on TYAN S1854 (Trinity 400) Motherboard, 512MB SDRAM, 40 GB EIDE ATA66 Hard drive, ATI Xpert 98 AGP 2X w/ 8MB RAM, Creative Labs 16 PCI sound card, with a clean install of Win98 SE.

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Pros: a few, but not many. the pros are wiped out by the con.

Cons: one con: audio capture. won't adequately capture audio, defeating the purpose.

The Bottom Line: doesn't get the job done. probably won't get the job done. audio capturing is relatively futile. audio problem sabotages the original mission.

Review: Hello. I bought the ADS Instant DVD unit in June of 2002. After a fair amount of research into products available for video capturing purposes, I found I had few choices. In fact, dozens of searches at several prominent search engines didn’t bring...

Pros: Good price, works for NTSC and PAL. Video looks good on TV.

Cons: Video look bad on computer.

The Bottom Line: It works if you watch the video on TV only. Buy a factory reconditioned one and you may have better luck.

Review: Is this the functionally you really want?

My VCR suddenly retired itself one day. I asked myself whether I can do without VHS and go into DVD? I can, I don't remember what is the last time that I recorded something from the cable...

Pros: Great idea, in theory

Cons: No power switch, totally unreliable, lousy customer support

The Bottom Line: If this thing worked it would be a dream product for vid capture. After the experiences I had with it, I couldn't recommend it to my worst enemy!!

Review: This is the single most frustrating experience I have ever had with a pc peripheral. When i unpacked the unit,hooked it
up and installed the software it worked like a dream....for 10 minutes. Beautiful dvd quality video! However next time i tried to...