aaaaaaand now they're $300 on Ebay.

You know you've made it when you shout out the product and it shoots up to 10x the price in the first hour.

Two pills, red and blue. Take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and remain a video capture dongle for life. Take the red pill - you become a human calculator and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.

They say the two happiest days of a boat owner's life are the day he buys his boat.....  and the day he sells it.

48 tapes through an elgato for 1500? I am in the wrong business!!!

This video was probably really handy for the 3 people that were able to buy one for $20.

I've seen countless digitized tapes throughout the years, and i always thought that the glitching and jerking of the image was due to degraded tapes or faulty VCR's that got misaligned. I never knew something as a time base corrector existed, or that it could produce so much better quality videos. The more you know.

I called that business owner out for not using any type of TBC in his setup. It's sad what these guys do to precious memories.

The reason why Firewire is the preferred way to transfer sustained data is that it has the ability to write directly to the memory of the host, in contrast to USB.

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“I saw a commercial for an above-ground pool. It was 30 seconds long. You know why? Because that’s the maximum amount of time you can depict yourself having fun in an above-ground pool.”
-Mitch Hedberg

Now the cheapest is 250 bucks. That’s Vwestlife

The macrovision b-roll was always more soothing & reassuring than the copy protection itself.

Fun fact: before Canopus developed their own ADC chips, they used Sony's ADC boards on their multi-thousand dollar DV-Rex NLE systems. In fact, it's probably the exact same chipset as the DVMC.

I use your mystery solution as well a fair amount of the time.  Only downside is you can’t (as far as I know) turn off the TBC.  So, if I’m using my outboard TBC, I sometimes wind up with washed-out/overly muted-color video.  A lot of period Sony Handycams use the same guts as the DVMC, and I can turn off the TBC on and off at will, so that (usually) gets used when transferring open-reel and Great Time Machine tapes and the Handycam is merely a pass-through.  Of course, there are times when compromises have to be made.  But, yes, the DVMC is more than good for most garden-variety transfers.

That dude angry with customers being surprised at a price... that's a certain type of person I've worked with a lot, not the kinda person I want in my company

I'm not surprised by the use of 1394 for the capture. I used to work for a media transfer business and one of the ways we transfer videotapes to digital was to use a JVC camcorder for the Analog s-video to digital 1394 for the capture computer. We also had a Hotronic AP41 time base corrector connected between the playback VCR and the capture device. The TBC allow us to get rock solid stable video as well as being able to adjust the 4 different video levels of hue, saturation, brightness(bias), and contrast. Another thing that the TBC did was to prevent the AV from going out of sync. One thing that was not pointed out in this video was that if you connect a analog VCR directly up to any 1394 capture device. You will have AV sync issues. That's because 1394 capture devices will drop all defective frames and if enough frames are dropped over the capture period, your video will start to lag behind the audio.

I just checked ebay, and I think the price may have gone up a little bit 😂

I am cracking up at "Local Application Nnn Control" 🤣

for a relatively short time in the early 2000s most PCs here came with integrated capture cards. The quality of those things varied a lot- but some were pretty good.

I went down this rabbit hole a few years ago and ended up with a GBSC upscaler + HDMI capture. Quality is great but the upscaler is a hobbyist board that can get messed up if you nudge it wrong