Binding: Electronics
Brand: ION
EAN: 0855960000405
Feature: VHS tape playback
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Manufacturer: 0
Model: ION VCR2PC
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 0
Release Date: 2008-05-08
Studio: 0
MPN: VCR2PC

• VHS tape playback
• RCA and USB outputs
• Separate NTSC and PAL versions
• Auto tracking and tape playback
• LED-backlit buttons

ION Audio continues to innovate with the all-new VCR 2 PC, which lets users rediscover their home movies and watch them anywhere. VCR 2 PC's transfer technology saves home movies, family videos, and personal tapes directly to a PC. Imagine never having to dig for tapes again or worry if they will work.

Once you save your precious memories to your computer, they will be saved forever in pristine digital format. Included EZ VHS Converter software can even export your video in MPEG4 format for compatibility with select mobile phones and portable multimedia devices!

Connect a VHS, VHS-C, or 8MM camcorder to the front panel jacks to backup your camcorder videos. When you're finished archiving your videos to your computer, VCR 2 PC is the perfect VHS player for any room in the house.

Included software lets you burn your home movies to DVD, watch on your PSP, iPod or laptop computer. Player Features RCA audio/video inputs to archive from external sources like video cameras Composite video output and audio line output Auto tracking, variable speed slow-motion, playback, and rewind Soft-touch backlit buttons PAL version features SCART output Software

VCR 2 PC FEATURES:

• Connects to Windows XP and Vista machines via USB 2.0 port
• Capture video at resolutions up to 720 x 480 (NTSC) or 720 x 576 (PAL)
• Sends video uncompressed over the USB cable
• Burn Video to DVD Export video to iPod or PSP® format
• Plug and play USB computer connection Standard RCA and composite outputs for connection to any TV or home theater system
• Standard RCA inputs for connecting video cameras
• Auto-tracking, variable speed slow motion, playback, and rewind
• Soft-touch, backlit buttons

Customer Rating:
Summary: Stay Away From This One
Comment: I bought this unit with high expectations. What a disappointment! First, the unit requires at least a 4 GHz machine to work at all - which is not stated anywhere online or in the literature. Next, the sound quality was terrible - clicks and pops everywhere - even when the tape wasn't playing. Even with a fast computer it dropped frames and really didn't have the kind of quality I expected in the finished product. Also the picture had snow (even with a movie tape that plays flawlessly on my VCR and plasma TV). The software is slow and hogs your machine, and editing is pretty much a joke. I returned the unit and will wait until something else that works comes along.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Beware the lack of software!
Comment: I had been shopping around quite a bit for a way to transfer dozens of cherished VHS tapes to DVD. I found this product, and thought it would be a simple easy solution. Yikes! Was I wrong, big time. To begin, the installation was a gigantic pain. After consulting Ion tech support, and installing and uninstalling the software a couple of dozen times, I finally got my PC to talk to the box. OK, now we can get going! So, I loaded in some video, worked well. Then the big surprise... I wanted to edit my video using the Muvee Producer software, which the description says (twice!) is included in the package. SURPRISE!!! Muvee Producer is NOT INCLUDED with this purchase. I called up Ion to ask about this. The response was that Amazon and other dealers had the product description wrong, this software was not supported, and it didn't come with the unit.

This VCR2PC device came with the most basic of editing programs, and it did basically nothing. So, after fighting the unit for a week, finally getting it installed, I discovered no editing software was included. I shopped it back yesterday. Beware!!!

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