Review on 🚀 Enhanced ClearClick Converter 2.0: Unmatched Second Generation Performance by Malik Munns

A bit of an afterthought. I'm a retired broadcast engineer so I can be a little picky. I bought and returned a Naxa VHS DVD recorder. It's a neat little device. We use connection shafts in the studio and Naxa handles all of that with a wide range of menus. You can record from video to USB or video to SD or video to DVD or USB to DVD or USB to SD or SD to USB with the built-in DVD burner. Clearclick is USB video or SD video only. But I still think Clearclick is the winner. After all, DVDs will soon be gone. And I see no point in recording to SD. As for SD to USB, it's easy enough on a PC. While Naxa has many options, how useful are they really? Both devices record in MP4 format, which is nice. Transferring to USB means you now have a digital copy, and that's the goal most of us aspire to. So Clearclick has exactly what we need. What about the quality? Naxa has three quality settings: High, Medium, and Low. Clearclick has no quality settings. I found the video quality on Naxa to be pretty poor even on high settings. Recordings look like VHS tapes, even when shot straight from the air. Clearclick seems to be slightly better, even better than Naxa on high setting. But still not sharp and clear. Interestingly, however, both claim 2GB per hour of video, so I don't know what the difference is. But the difference is not big. In fact, probably a little more than marginally. And they seem to have similarities in the directories they make on USB as if some of their sources are from the same place. The beauty of Naxa is that it tells you how much time is left on your recording target, while Clearclick doesn't. Clearclick has a built-in speaker. There is no Nux. Even if you're using HDMI for monitoring while recording, you can't hear any sound from the Naxa. While Clearclick's speaker is fairly quiet, at least it's there. I don't know why none of them have a headphone jack. If so, you could even use them as portable media players. More technical things; Clearclick keeps recording even if you lose sync or for you non-specialists if the video signal is interrupted. VHS tapes are notorious for losing sync at bad points and this has always been a problem with traditional DVD recorders, they stop there. That's one of the reasons we use Time Base Correctors in the studio. This was an important test as many people have reported in previous reviews that Clearclick would stop recording if there was a break in the video. It seems that they have solved this problem. In fact in my testing it looks like they have some sort of TBC built in, actually pretty impressive. With Naxa, I found that when it actually stopped at the first sync break (video), it still showed the time counter as if it were still recording. You could record for an hour only to find out you're not recording at all! One thing I would call false advertising is Clearclick's ability to pause and then resume a recording. It is not. The pause button stops the recording and the resume button starts a new recording. "Pause” actually means "stop”. I myself got fooled by these misleading advertisements because I never saw the option to pause the current MP4 recording and I thought that would be absolutely awesome. But it's not, it's just a lie by Clearclick. Both devices record the sound very, very quietly. Why? I do not know. If you have a way to reinforce the input, that certainly helps. I have a small 2 channel audio mixer that does the job and it has a headphone jack! I'm not advocating anything here, just some technical information; Clearclick doesn't seem to respect the broadcast record flag. This means that he records the cable. I've had mixed results with Naxa, sometimes it would, sometimes it wouldn't, even on the same show the FCC ruled long ago that radio waves are free and free to tape, so I'm not talking about OTA TV, it's cable TV where almost everything is sent. write flag. You'll find that many DVD recorders don't record the cable, but they may not be concerned about low-frequency, low-resolution video anymore, so let it go. We're talking analog video here, not HDMI. If you are really interested in DVD creation, Naxa could be your choice since it has a built-in DVD burner. I didn't even bother to try this part before sending it back, so I can't comment on this feature. The Clearclick isn't perfect, but for the $139 I paid and without the need for a computer, software, patchbays, etc., I think I'll keep it for myself. for what it's worth.