DIGITNOW! Video Capture Card Converts Hi8 VHS to Digital DVD for Windows/Mac, Video Grabber with Scart/AV Adapter

I don’t usually write reviews, but I had to give this a 5-star rating. I’m seriously impressed by the amazing video quality and how easy it is to set up — it’s literally plug and play. The package includes everything you need: the converter, RCA cables, and the capture device. All you need is your VHS player or DVD player and a laptop, and you’re good to go. I set up OBS Studio to capture both audio and video simultaneously, allowing me to watch the film while I record, which made the process so much more enjoyable. Thanks, DigitNow!, for making digitising my old tapes so simple and effective. Highly recommended!

I was asked to copy VHS tapes from the mid-2000s by my granddaughter's school and needed a video capture device quickly. I use a lot of Elgato kit and hoped to buy their unit, but it appears to no longer be available. I bought the DIGITNOW costing a sixth of the Elgato unit and was not expecting much. However, I have been very pleasantly surprised and have obtained very good results from the first few tapes I have copied. I use a Mac. The drivers install from the video capture unit to the hard drive when the device is plugged-in to the USB port. When the VHS is connected to the video capture device, its output can be recorded using Quicktime. Create a new movie recording and from the drop down menu in the Quicktime window next to the record button select the AV TO USB2.0 "camera" and USB 2.0 mic audio. Press record in the Quicktime window and off you go. Initial installation is not intuitive, but once the drivers are in place the rest is very simple. I have given picture quality 4 stars, but that is due to the VHS tapes rather than the video capture device. Very good value, easy to use, and perfectly acceptable results

I found this product a little hard to use especially as at first I could get no picture from my VHS (recording old camcorder tapes). After hours of googling and resigning myself to thinking it was useless I tried putting the usb end into another usb socket on my laptop and like magic it worked. Don't know what that was about but was just happy to get it working. I could not work out the editing part of it but maybe that's just me. I'm ok with technical stuff and I probably could have googled a bit more but I didn't really feel like I needed it. I managed to burn all the videos onto dvd although sometimes I got a dud one (checked each one played in a dvd player after burning) so I had to do another copy. It takes a lot of memory on your hard drive to create the temp file so I had to do some clearing out of old files and pictures to get the GB needed. Also, when it asked after burning "keep clip on your HDD?" choose yes or it will delete it from your laptop/pc! I had to re-record several videos as I was making two copies of each for my two children.

Tried for a week to get this working. Instructions poor , installed & uninstalled 4 times. I am not a tech expert, but also I am not a novice and not underconfident at trying to figure things out. There was no advice re where to go for help and I googled for days to find an email helpline for the actual company that produces the product. (Cable and software included). I emailed and gave exact details of what i had done, how set up, installed and what devices i was using...to be fair i got a response in 24 hours. The main issue was i could record the birds in bird box via the software supplied - but there was no images on the screen to see what i was recording. It was not until playback that you knew it had recorded (not helpful when you want to record key moments). I had 4 emails passed back and forth with the helpline and the final advice was, go and install the free opensource software OBS Studio!!... Which incidentally I already had and having realised i could use for bird cam recording... works marvellously. The extra I paid for this product for the software to be included was absolutely NOT worth it. Just buy the cable and use OBS. (After reading OBS About & Info - there is a known issue with screen displays with some modern laptops (not desktops) that certain software will not work..Arcsoft is clearly one of them)

When I say "this one", it's because if you're looking for a good and simple capture card I would recommend this model over the more expensive ones and definitely wouldn't bother with the £5.00 Easycap versions I'm convinced that the Chinese Communist party will eventually conquer the west, not by stealth or force of arms but just by giving us all nervous breakdowns due to us snapping up assorted things that turn out to be shyte and won't work after a weekend of trying every permutation of cables, ports, Windows versions and ecen laptops. Such is the lesson of 'you get what you pay for' learned. This one, however, really IS ok. It wouldn't play pictures on my new Acer with the latest Windows but seemed far happier on ny HP Pavilion g6 which has an older version. Both pictures and sound were very good and I doubt you'd get better quality north of £70.00 or a hundred bucks. One thing I REALLY thought was great was that as soon as you save the project you can just drag it onto the desktop and it instantly becomes an MPeg file complete with thumbnail. The software is basic but all you really want is something that better software like PowerDirector will accept, right?. On that note, Cyberlink doesn't recognise it by detection on its Capture setting so you can't cheat and use Cyberlink to capture your VHS from the off but you can drag and drop the MPeg into Cyberlink later. On the whole, not a bad little device at all.