CES 2008 Pinnacle Video Transfer Press and Go review

Pinnacle Systems had a very impressive new product at CES Unveiled. The demonstrated their new "Video Transfer" product dubbed Press and Go.

Press and Go is a very good term for this device and it is brilliantly simple to use. You can plug and Analog Video feed into it and encode real time into a Apple iPod, Sony PSP, USB Memory stick.

They were playing a "Home DVD" ;) and encoded it real time into the Sony PSP, iPod, Memory Stick. While not the first product to do this Neuros has a device that will do similar thing the price point on this will definitely compete with Neuros.

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[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.

[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?

[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.

[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?)

[watchy0ubac]

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

[laidiesmanlol]

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

[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 -.-

[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.

[IIIeddieIII]

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

[thatphoenixsunsguy]

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