Review on 📼 ClearClick Video to Digital Converter 2.0 (Second Generation) - Record and Preserve VCR, VHS, Camcorder, DVD, Gaming System Videos (Bundle Edition) by Adam Browning

Looked promising. Just hooked it up to our VCR, you could see the video on the connected screen and thought I had RECORD on. After a few hours, the supplied USB stick was almost empty. Just some default information about files and directories. Wandered through the menu structure, way beyond anything the meager manual suggested, and found that the default write option is for a flash card. Oops. The thin manual doesn't mention this. Set the target to the USB port using the provided flash drive, reform it first using the provided FORMAT option and boot the tape again. round two. In the end I just had to show a few pictures that I DID NOT REQUIRE. It turns out that pressing the RECORD button is an art. Press correctly and you start recording. Wrong press and you THINK you started recording when in reality you just took a photo. Press again and you may have started or stopped recording. Or created ANOTHER useless snapshot. This is poorly explained in the documentation. Try THREE. Now you know, this is the third time I've watched these videos of our '80s Christmas parties in one go. Even I'm sick of them. I think it was possible to use RECORD successfully. The first thing I noticed was that a clock now appears next to the recording icon, showing the elapsed time of the current recording. PROGRESS I think. nope This tape has several Christmas and Birthday episodes over a decade, with brief periods of noise and blue screens in between. Each of them causes RECORD mode to turn off. So I learned to jump up and hit the RECORD touch button again, the record count starts over. Now these shots were taken over an old shot of the movie "South Pacific" and in the end we skip to the end of the movie. I got up and hit the record button to stop everything. I must have pressed them twice because I restarted the recording function for a moment, about 2 seconds into the movie. Powered off the device, removed the flash drive and my win 10 pc shows 4 separate entries. Three are represented by odd triangular icons, and #4 shows a screenshot of, yes, the South Pacific. Three icons won't start telling me the files are corrupt and unusable. #4 gives me a great 2 seconds of people singing on the beach. After formatting the flash drive last time, I'm trying to set it to record automatically for 120 minutes because I think it might be recording bad spots. nope 11 minutes, Christmas 85 Snow gives way for a few seconds and the recording timer jumps. Documentation stinks. Like many products these days. Yes there is a web link for help but I don't need it. I have been an audiophile, electronics engineer and service technician for 45 years. If I can't figure it out, what chance does the average grandparent have? Whether it's bad documentation or a hardware defect, I'm done with it. SO I returned it. Maybe with some technical help I could figure it out, but now I don't care if I ever see those old movies again. Another two hour outage and I'll probably smash this unit AND our priceless VHS tape to pieces.