CES 2008 Pinnacle Video Transfer Press and Go review

[Dustbin1149Jr]

This item is a piece of crap.

It doesn't work half the time and if you don't feed it a continuous signal it will stop recording (so if you have a vhs tape with any low/bad it will stop mid recording.

Also if there is an failure whilst recording the entire effort will be lost (eg if it breaks down 2h53m into a 3h tape then all that recording is lost). They even had to make a firmware update to deal with this but it still doesn't work all the time.

This item is a piece of crap.

[senorbarrigas]

this is what i use to capture my gaming sessions but it is time to upgrade. They need to bring out something that captures in HD like the Hauppague (sp?)

[MrSaxophone18]

@senorbarrigas How good of quality does it transfer in? Is it semi-good quality? The reason I ask is because my 360 and computer are in completely opposite rooms and running a cable from room to room isn't a good option for me. I am looking for something where I can record straight from the TV to a USB drive, then upload it to windows movie maker.

Any reply is appreciated.

[MrSaxophone18]

@senorbarrigas How good of quality does it capture in? I need a way to capture that doesn't run a chord from room to room. I need a way to record straight from the TV to a USB so that I can then simply plug in my USB and import the footage to Window's movie maker. Does this do a good job?

[Rsm411]

i have this.

and you need WAY more for this to record Console games.

i had to spend another £25 on that and each was a discount -.-

[laidiesmanlol]

if you have a tv with a crap load of inputs and inputs thats pretty much sll u need

[IIIeddieIII]

can someone please help me? do i need to plug this into the tv to record games on xbox?

[hi1405]

well ill help you... plug your xbox into your TV as composite (red, white, yellow) and then on your TV's outputs, plug a cable from them to the device and then plug in a flash drive. if you dont have outputs, get an A/V component switcher and it should have 4 inputs and 2 outputs. plug one input from your converter to your tv's inputs. then go to your 360 and plug the 360's cables into the converters input #1. then plug a 2-way cable from your pinnacle transfer into your converters other output.

[watchy0ubac]

You plug cable into the output slots on your TV and your xbox in the input slots, that should work.

[thatphoenixsunsguy]

Anyone know if I can use mac?

[ravenhead720]

ya works great with mac

[thatphoenixsunsguy]

How do I do it?can i use a USB 2.0-B slot?

[DX1011985]

Does this come with a usb cable to load video straight from the device to you computer?

[AnthonyMartorina]

You would plug a USB Stick or a Hard Drive into the USB port to capture video you are transferring. Remember you also go directly to a iPod Nano or a Sony PSP portable. It will record from anything that has analog outs.

[podmixture]

does it do dvd movies???

[PSnivek]

this thing owns.

i bought the Dazzle (another Pinnacle product) but it never worked for me.

so I went out to bestbuy yesterday and bought one, now I'm making videos and its so easy to use!!

[JS5074]

i recently bought the pinnacle video transfer and i had trouble recording xbox 360 footage but i found the solution, you can not use the HD cables on ur xbox you have to use the standard cables to record xbox footage.

[playstationpopop]

If i record video on a usb flash can I plug the transfer pinnicle thing into a different tv that's a different size and will it play on the different tv at full rez/ size?

[playstationpopop]

Hey can I use this to record something on a usb drive and keep the drive in, plug the pinnacle transfer into a different tv and play the same video on a different tv? If so I'm buying one of these for sure. Please help me.

[spiderscales76]

it only goes unidirectional.

source - pinnacle- usb device

be it psp ipod usb or external drive.

i mostly dump my recordings on my pc

[Saslurpy]

Me too actually...it's a bitch to figure out....which is why I want to know how.

[blackadam06]

I've got to have one..