Review on UCEC USB 2.0 Video Audio Capture Card Device Adapter VHS VCR TV to DVD Converter - Compatible with Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7/8/10 by Olajuwon Achille

Overall, a solid, inexpensive product that works very well. It's hard to tell if a product affects video resolution/quality - maybe a little, but for the price I'd say it works pretty well. I agree with others that the software is "clunky" but it works and there are MANY output options - so many that I had to research and test to find the best output options for me! There are MP2 and MP4 and multiple DVD output options (NTSC and PAL) and various other output options that I haven't mentioned. The MP2 option allowed multiple output resolutions (horizontal/vertical resolution), while the other options had the resolutions greyed out. I've found that there can be issues playing some formats on a DVD player for example, but I'm planning to use my laptop with Win and all the formats I've tried work fine on Win10. Firstly I couldn't get MP2, MP4 or DVD FORMATS to work on my iPhone (wanted to stream to TV - file uploaded to iCloud and then to phone), maybe this will work - no luck so far. The included software loaded and worked for the first time on a home laptop with Win10 - 64-bit - i3 Intel 2.0 GHZ processor. The video stream/bitrate was fine with the default settings, but when I tried to change something, such as For example, increasing the bitrate didn't see any real improvement in quality, but file sizes jumped a lot (MUCH) and the video downloaded/skipped - so I used the default preset with no gaps. DVD equivalent standard definition files were around 3GB per hour so be prepared for large files! I copied from Sony Hi8 and MiniDV with no problems. I used the RCA video and Svideo inputs and both worked fine. At first I thought Svideo wouldn't work (no picture) but all I had to do was press a button in the software and then copy a clear picture to my laptop! Update: After a week of ripping dozens of Hi8 videos from my Sony camcorder, I have some advice. I get really good quality copies when I use an S-Video cable and select MP-2 with a bitrate of 8000. This is a higher bitrate than the default settings but makes very good copies. Your computer must be able to handle this higher bitrate for this to work. Lower bit rates resulted in poor video with lots of motion artifacts. Please note that a bit rate of 8000 requires approximately 3.7 gigabytes per hour of video.