EXCELLENT DEAL! This unit can turn up costing a LOT MORE for the self same thing.I paid. Technically this product works, but it appears that this is just one of many clones of essentially the same product. On my Linux computers it works fine, picture quality is decent, sound quality is decent although it does get distorted from time to time, I suspect maybe because of bandwidth issues with the device, because when I route sound through a separate cable the distortions disappear for the most part. The housing is pretty cheaply made too.

Go to Honestech VHS to DVD Installation and install the software utility. Windows XP (64-bit). Boot up Windows. Insert the USB 2.0 Video. Capture Device. Feb 9, 2011 - If there is a driver for 64bit win 7 it will be found on the manufacturers web site.

I bumped it once and the whole thing popped apart and I had to put it back together. Also, having tried using this on two different computers to digitize some VHS movies I have, over the course of an hour and a half long movie the audio and video fall 2-3 seconds out of sync. From what I can tell there's no software built into the device and it didn't come with any discs, so you've gotta basically figure out what software and stuff you want to use yourself. I'm giving this 3 stars because technically it does work, and the picture/sound quality is pretty good, but I will probably end up buying a dedicated capture card for our desktop PC and relegate this to a tinker toy. I purchased this to try and run my Gamecube through my PC, because I don't have a television. I got everything installed, and was able to get *some* kind of picture to show up in a small box that couldn't have the size adjusted on my screen, and I did have audio from my game. The video image of my game was fragmented and I tried adjusting all the settings in every combination imaginable to get it to work, but it never would.

I don't know if it was just incompatible with my PC or if my product was defective, but I ended up putting it in the catch-all drawer. I don't want to say this is a BAD product. It might work for some people, but this was my personal experience with the product.

I eventually bought a new monitor with integrated speakers and got a converter to go between the RCA and HDMI monitor to be able to play my consoles. On the plus side, the software installed and the adapter worked perfectly on my Dell D630 laptop running Win 7 with no hiccups whatsoever.

Quite a contrast to a more expensive Ion adapter I had purchased previously - and returned because it refused to be installed, and of course did not work. But again, this adapter did not have those problems, even though it cost significantly less. But the resulting videos seem to be of fairly crude quality, no where close to HD. On the other hand, I've noticed that there are quite a few instructional videos on Youtube for fine tuning the sorftware, so I'll probably see if I can tweak the quality a bit with those suggestions. Also, even though the photos show the brand as 'EasyCap', mine was branded 'EasierCAP'.

Not quite sure what to make of that, beyond being mildly funny. I saw a lot of bad reviews for this but there were some that were positive.

Having good experience with cheap Chinese stuff in the past, I decided this was worth a shot. At first, I thought everything was going well. The drivers installed fine, and it was detected as a video capture device.

But unfortunately, I was unable to get any signal from it. I was able to hear audio for a few seconds using PowerDirector 12, but no video. The software included is garbage. I tried everything to get it to work but I had no luck. I was using Vista Business 32bit which actually is very friendly with old software. It can even run SimTower and other OLD games, so I did not thinl it was anything wrong with my computer.

I sent it back as defective. It did not work at all even though it says its Vista compatible.

It's not the most intuitive product to use, but instructions for Windows 7 64 bit installation are included (the drivers for which are NOT on the CD, but the seller's website has them and the URL is in the instructions). The audio quality kinda blows, but considering how cheap this is it's not exactly surprising, and it comes with video editing software and a USB extension cable (pictured), so who can complain? If you do choose to use the USB audio input, you will DEFINITELY want to adjust the recording volume in your computer's Recording Devices sound settings. Mine is set at about 15%; anything higher just increases static.