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| Dazzle DVC 150 | Analog VideoIn MPEG1 hardware MPEG2 hardware |
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USB2 | $200 | 5.4/10 42 votes |
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| Hi-Speed USB 2.0 Interface for Best Video Quality
The DVC 150 has a Hi-Speed USB 2.0 interface to the computer. This interface is about 40 times as fast as a USB 1.1 interface which means that if your computer supports USB 2.0, you can get almost 25% higher video quality. Don't have a USB 2.0 port on your computer yet? Don't worry, the DVC 150 will work on your USB 1.1 port and you will be ready for the future if you decide to upgrade your computer to USB 2.0. Capture Full Resolution DVD Quality Video Connect your Camcorder, VCR or TV to the Dazzle ® DVC 150 to capture DVD quality video source to your PC. The DVC 150 captures in full 720 x 480 DVD resolution. DVD Encoder Chip Saves Hard Disk Space The DCS 150 has a DVD encoder chip inside which automatically converts video in real time into DVD quality video. This shrinks the video to ¼ its original size saving hard disk space. Output to VCR and TV The DVC 150 has built-in analog video outputs connectors. This allows you to output your edited video back to a VCR. You can also connect a TV and use it as a video preview monitor for more precise video editing. |
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cool site Comments posted by Sally Kraus from United States, August 12, 2007: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: No rating. |
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Cool site. Comments posted by Sally Kraus from United States, April 04, 2007: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 2 of 10. |
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I would just like to say that at first when I got the dvc 150 (three years ago)I was not pleased. But all my problems were from the software movie star 5. When Pinnacle took over with studio 8 most of the probles went away, except one and that was burning a dvd to a cd. At that point I did alot of research and found out to edit with studio and burn with nero 6 ultra. After that I have been real pleased and I have made several dvds all with menus, videos and pics. The dvc 150 works flawless no dropped frames. I can capture from Tv, dvd players, vhs players, tivo, directtv dvr all with no frames dropped. Also if it looks good on the computer it will look great on the TV. The studio program still needs work for it to work right out of the box. It would be great for a software to do what it says it can do.(burn a dvd without problems.) The dvc 150 is a great capture device. I will give it a 10 and the software studio a 8 Comments posted by TM from United States, January 21, 2006: Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10. |
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Installation was very simple however when capturing a composite film, the preview screen shows some strang lines on the bottom of the box. Lucky you do not see this on the DVD. In short I'm very happy and with the software Studio 9 it is very simple to create your own DVD Comments posted by E. Helderop from Netherlands, November 24, 2005: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10. |
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Tested on two different DVC150 B : Composite input : correct chroma S-video input : awful multishifted chroma !!! Here is a capture box that has a better composite than s-video input !!! Question : why did they build it with s-video connectors ?! AV synchro problems with long captures. Too wide tbc -> video quality loss. I won't recommend this box. Comments posted by Ester from Netherlands, September 19, 2005: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 1 of 10. |
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video sux, pixel'ish in all scenes from my camcorder, editor too slow at times on a 1.2GHz computer...hmmmm!! I like its output, but only 1st party software can use it. The device is even hidden from your hardware list, and not allowing 3rd party software to access it. Though I like the 720x480 30fps, but the video sux which I need to have the highest quality. I give it a 3 for its few accomplishments. Comments posted by DanDude from United States, April 15, 2005: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 3 of 10. |
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Hi all I've written a previous report where I was very positive about this product. I've since discovered that there are serious audio sync (lip sync) problems when capturing and rendering full length captured movies. After trying the helpless helpdesk and downloading every update and driver to no avail I've found a solution. The only way I get by is to render my project to about 7 x 300 second mpegs and then creating a new project and combining all the mpegs. This is both cubmersome and STUPID but if anyone else have another means I would be glad to hear. Still is not a bad product and video quality remains good. Regards Marius Comments posted by Marius from South Africa, April 04, 2005: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 6 of 10. |
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Software took 1 hours to install! Once installed the Dazzle 150 was not recognised by the Studio 9 software, Studio 9 kept locking up my PC, causing the Windows evil blue screen of death. It took 2 hours to install and then uninstall the software so this morning it is going back to the store and I'll try something else. The old Dazzle, before Pinnacle bought them out, was a great little device, it didn't do everything as promised but it worked OK for 4 years until it bit the dust last week. Comments posted by Jim Asbury from United States, February 18, 2005: Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 1 of 10. |
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As piece of hardware I can't fault it. Pinnacle Studio 9 Plus on the other hand has more problems than the average years callers to the samaritains. I had do do so many things to get this software to work. I spent over £400 upgrading and it still wouldn't ****ing work! After weeks of toil and scouring the net for advice I got pinnacle to work but for some reason it will only work if I keep moving the mouse during render and burn process (even though all powersave and screensavers are deactivated plus all background tasks are shut down.). BOTTOM LINE. GOOD HARDWARE BUT PINNACLE STUDIO IS ABOUT AS MUCH USE AS A BACK POCKET IN A SOCK! Comments posted by MIKE from United Kingdom, January 17, 2005: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 10 of 10. |
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Couldn't get the damn thing to work on two different PC's. 1.) Pinnacle software would not start after full install and updating programs. 2.) WinXP did full see the capture device. 3.) Other capture software doesn't see the device. Avoid at all cost. Comments posted by JN Taylor from United States, December 29, 2004: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 1 of 10. |
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I have used the DVC 150 USB2 version with both the shipped Studio 8 Quickstart and with Uleads offering, I actually found the Ulead quicker and easier to use. Results have been impressive, even improving the quality of some pretty awful videos from years ago. Capturing from a Sony TV110E Digital Camcorder was superb and have even produced a couple of video wedding runs on DVD which both included a photo album commercially. One thing I noticed was when I upgraded my PC the performance of the DVC 150 improved remarkably. I have never suffered any failures either of the unit or the host PC so it would be unfair to blame the 150, I suspect that any shortcomings found by other users will ultimately be traced back to faults either already present on the PC or inadvertently created during setup and or installation of the drivers. A friend bought the unit on my recommendation and could not get it to run at all on an XP based machine. I uninstalled everything fo him and then set it up from scratch without problem, it runs fine. I don't know what he did wrong but most certainly the innitial failure was down to something he did (or didn't do) during the set up. I can't wait to try it with Tenomichi. Comments posted by DesperateZan from United Kingdom, December 10, 2004: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10. |
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Cons: - 1 point taken out for some obvious green+pink artifacts on the captured video. - Another 1 point taken out for inadequate of MPEG settings like CBR/VBR, noise reduction, etc. - scheduled recording if available would have been nice. - the box gets WARM when capturing; I put a small fan next to it to cool it down Other than the above down sides, this is a pretty decent product. Below are the Pros: - ignore macrovision when capturing - output video to VCR, TV, etc. - AV still in sync even the source VHS tape is damaged The bundled Pinnacle Studio 9 does not actually change the bitrate even though I changed. Pinnacle Studio 8 does not have this problem. I don't have time to do fancy editing. I use Womble MPEG-VCR for basic trimming, TMPEnc DVD Author for DVD authoring, Nero for DVD burning. I am using ADS DVD Xpress to record TV shows everyday and then burn to DVDs. The Dazzle is a backup and will be used in my child's school projects. Comments posted by ADS Fan from United States, November 30, 2004: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10. |
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After reviewing several comments on this card, I was very confusing because some loved it and others wanted to throw it though the window! But I can say this card is very good. No problems during instalation and capturing, no dropped frames. My system: Win 2000 P4 1.6GHz ASUS Motherboard with USB 2.0 on board. 256 MB Ram HD 40 and 30 Gb 7200 rpm Comments posted by Almir from Brazil, November 15, 2004: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10. |
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Well, this is my third dazzle product (started with Dazzle 1 making vcd's then dazzle II to make svcd's and when I got a dvd burner I picked this one up). I found the software so unwieldy that I actually returned it and purchased a similar item called a DirectDVD. It worked great, but I wanted to see what I was doing wrong with the Dazzle 150, so I actually repurchased it. The Pinnacle Studio software it came with was just a little tricky to learn, but once you get where it's coming from, you realize that it's just about the greatest thing out there for the purpose of EDITING your captured videos, or any videos you open with it. It actually creates a giant album of thumbnailed images each representing a scene change it detects in the video and you can Select All and drag them into a graphic timeline (looks like a long strip of film layed out in horizontal rows) and you can subdivide the clips represented by the thumbnail, or cut them or move them, it's wonderful, once you get the hang of it. I've never seen a more handy or easy to use video editing program anywhere. Beats the heck out of VirtualDub or the MPEG tools that are in the TMPGenc file menu. The one thing I can't do with it is BURN; like someone else posted here, it freezes when you try. I keep getting a message on startup that a software update is available and maybe when I download it, that problem will be solved. I have found that I can drag the finished DVD quality MPEG into the Ulead Studio SE software that came with the DirectDVD and do all the burning there, even create custom menus with background pics and Sound loops to make my dvds look more professional. I've not had the problems capturing as many people have here, but I do have a (slightly old) Pentium IV with a gig of ram, but it also has only a 1.1 usb, and still my dvds are commercial quality. Comments posted by Jim from United States, October 22, 2004: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10. |
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I've been doubtfull after reading other comments whether to purchase this device or not - I'm glad I did! It operates flawlessly and the Pinnacle Studio software that came with it is superb. So far no glitches and video output is BRILLIANT! What I do realize is that you need a descent PC to work with. Regards Marius Comments posted by Marius from South Africa, June 29, 2004: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: No rating. |
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To be fair, it is possible to get passably good captures with the Dazzle 150 but only after much trial and error, and then only by using the supplied software "Moviestar" which as you will read elsewhere barely works at all. The card is incompatible with other capture programs so you are forced to use this software at least for capture, however the MPEG codecs it employs are proprietary, and you will then be unable to edit your captured files using (for example) Premiere Pro unless you perform some conversion first. Do not waste your money with this product. Comments posted by phil from United Kingdom, May 10, 2004: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 1 of 10. |
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i couldnt get it to run on my win98 machine with 128mb ram. i switched it to my XP machine with 128 mb ram. i installed the software first (studio quickstart 8.11) and then the dv 150 as the instructions advised ( and pretty much the way you should do any usb product.) i found that if you have the dvc 150 plugged in at bootup, winxp will not find it. if i plug it in after bootup it finds it, i dont know why. after i got the dvc150 installed and winXP located it, i started studio 8.11 it captured perfect, but when i tried to burn to dvd it froze. i went to the pinnacle site and got the studio 8.12 update. after instalation it burned dvds fine. instalation was a bit of a hassle, but im pretty happy with the results. the box said 128mb ram necessary 256 recommended. I suspect that win98 wont run it with less than 256. ***NOTE my xp machine has usb 1.1. this product is backwards compatible with 1.1 but obviously 2.0 would be better. i got a usb 2.0 pci card but could not get the dvc 150 to work with the 2.0 card. i put the dvc 150 back on the usb 1.1 port and it works fine again . my current machine is amd xp 1700 shuttle ak32 motherboard usb 1.1 128mb ram tdk DVD rw Comments posted by chris from United States, April 25, 2004: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 7 of 10. |
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Have the attitude that if you buy this product, the only thing you are buying is hardware and a small utility to make it run. With that in mind, it does the job nicely: it captures great, encodes in real-time (great for me with only a 500MHz machine), and does a good job with audio sync. When used with USB 2.0, no frames are dropped even at high bit rates. I rate the hardware quite highly. Although some people have no trouble with the software, the usual experience is that it doesn't work. Both MovieStar and Pinnacle Studio 8 crash all the time for me, so they're useless. I got it on clearance so I don't care. Perhaps if I paid the full $150 as others here did, I'd be more upset about that. If you've got the sense to read this forum, you've got the sense to make this hardware work. If you're scared of computers, perhaps it's not for you. Fortunately, you can get better results with the included DVXCELLTest utility than you could with that buggy software even if it worked. Search on these forums and on other forums referenced here (links provided several places on this site; just search for DVC 150) for details. The result is you get complete control of the video settings, which you don't have otherwise, but you have to capture blind (without preview). [You have less control over the audio; see the forums. In summary, leave the setting at 48KHz or you'll have trouble. Audio is uncompressed LPCM so use TMPEGenc to de-multiplex the audio, compress it to mpeg layer II audio and re-multiplex. This is a fairly quick operation compared to encoding the video, bearable even on my slow machine.] So, plan on using the bare-bones utility (third-party capture software does not download the microcode to the hardware encoder, so that's not an option) and you'll be pleased with the results. If you've stuck yours in the closet, pull it out and try again with the utility and you'll find it works after all. Comments posted by KDN from United States, February 25, 2004: Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10. |
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The product now ships with Pinnacle Studio 8 Quick Start and works perfectly for me. installed the latest USB driver for the device then installed the software from CD, plugged the device in and began capturing immediately at the highest quality via my usb 2 port. Not one dropped frame or glitch. Rig P4 3.0ghz HT, 1024MB DDR 400 , 160GB 7200RPM HDD Comments posted by MadTechnician from Other, January 05, 2004: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10. |
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it is verey bad card and software Comments posted by boshi from Other, December 30, 2003: Compatibility: |
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It Stinks, I have unhooked mine and put it away in the closet for ever, if it did capture it was full of freeze frames and glitches, thats when it did capture, started with Moviestar and was always locking up part way thru the capture, then upgraded to Pinnacle Studio 8, now there's some crappy software, it was worse than Moviestar, I don't believe it's my computer, I have an Athalon XP2200 512 MB DDR 2100 Ram, and two 80 GB hard drives Running Windows XP Comments posted by Randy from Other, December 28, 2003: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 1 of 10. |
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I bought the Dazzle150 and it came with Pinnacle Studio 8 Quick start. I have have transferred 30 VHS tapes already with NO flaws! I can adjust the bitrate easily and save the files in any format that I have a codec for (except WMV). I have been saving in MPEG2 format in DVD quality. I do not use Studio for DVD burning as I used DVD Architect instead but I have burned SVCDs with Studiao and they all worked perfect. I can't believe so many users are having trouble with this wonderful little, inexpensive device! In I.T. we say 90% of problems are user error!!! Comments posted by Ron Marks from Other, December 09, 2003: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10. |
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The Dazzle 150 does have bitrate adjustment - you just have to use the "test utility", not MovieStar. The software is junk. However, in CBR mode, at the max bitrate of 8Mbps, I get good results. Never dropped frames (preview is off). Sometimes a slight audio-sync problem easily fixable with audacity. I use TMPG's Encoder and DVD Authoring, and get execellent end results - 3.5-4 hours of movies on 1 DVD - looking better than the original (I use filtering to improve quality). The Canopus AVDC-100 seems to be the best choice over-all. However, the DVC-150 creates much smaller "raw" files - and still has excellent capture results (my TV is a 55" HDTV, so I can really tell!). I think Dazzle mainly gets a bad rap due to poor software, customer service, and that must people buy the software assuming a easy-to-use flow from analog to DVD. Comments posted by KetchSumAir from Other, December 04, 2003: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 7 of 10. |
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I bought this on sale for 150.00 usd, and it did take alittle while to get set up, but after reading their forums (really good advice there) I was good to go. You need to get the updates on their site. I then bought the pinnacle studio 8.0 when they bought out dazzle and was again able to capture easily enough. I think if those that have problems just read a bit further, they would find out that an upgrade to the drivers was all that is needed. Tech support I never trust, I always try to find a user forum telling how they fixed it. For the price, I recommend this product. Comments posted by Rugby from Other, December 02, 2003: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10. |
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Bought the unit to transfer old videotape to DVD. Have no complaints about the hardware, in the short time I've had it, it has produced very good results with copied tapes. DVD Complete works OK but has one flaw that spoils the presentation when adding menus--white blocks with a question mark in them. It's supposed to be a bitmap that can be changed easily. The background changes nicely but this will not. A bit of digging shows it to be a jpeg, not a bmp file called "missing". Deleting the file doesn't work, the program hangs and insists on restoring this ugly thing. Adding your own jpeg and calling it "missing" works, but who wants to do this for every menu point? Not to mention the menu would look better without anything where the software places its "missing" file--which I wish was truly Missing! No info I can find in their on-line help and they don't seem to answer e-mail. Thus far, their dialup help only produces a busy signal although looking at other's comments here it'd likely be a waste of time and long-distance charges anyway. Comments posted by Dan T from Other, October 30, 2003: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: No rating. |
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more technical information.New comments= New comments since your last visit. New Card= New Capture Card since your last vist. Feature What kind of main capture features it supports Analog VideoIn = Analog composite or/and SVHS video input Video Card = If it is a Video Card/Graphic Card Tv Tuner = Built-In TV-Tuner Digital TV = Built-In Digital TV-Tuner DV/Firewire = DV/Firewire/i.Link input DV Converter = Analog composite or/and SVHS video input and converts to DV video MPEG1 hardware = Capture directly MPEG1(VCD) video using hardware* MPEG2 hardware = Capture directly MPEG2(SVCD and DVD) video using hardware* MJPEG hardware = Capture directly to MJPEG using hardware* MPEG4 hardware = Capture directly to MPEG4(DivX,Xvid) video using hardware* * = Most capture cards can capture to this format using software but it usually requires a very fast computer, if it supports realtime capturing it uses the capture cards hardware and it doesn't require a very fast computer and you may get better quality but less options/settings than software capturing. Compatibility What Operating System our users have reported that it works on, Win95=Works Cnx = Connection What type of connection the capture device has to the computer, PCI, AGP, USB1/1.1/2, DV or PCMCIA. Price The price in US dollar. Rating The first rating is based on a weighted rank (the true Bayesian), it requires at least 5 votes to get a weighted rating. The second rating between the ( ) is a normal average rating. Comment User comments, click on view to view them or add to post a own comment. We can not gurantee that this list is 100% correct. Don't forget to read the User Comments for more Info about each Capture card. If you find any features that are not correct contact us instead of posting a comment about it. |
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