Ion Audio - Video 2 PC Digital Video Converter

I had been looking for a way to digitize not only home VHS & Hi-8 video, but also motion picture films. The Toshiba VCR protects the content via HDCP, so it was impossible to get "Mrs. Doubtfire" onto a DVD. What a ripoff (no pun intended) But with this Ion product, I could even use the EZcap software to get some more use out of the 8mm camera --- withOUT using any film! Because I can hook it up, and capture live video, as well. Looking forward to getting quite a bit of use out of this. The applications are many, I mean, imagine capturing video game play(if you have no other way to share your replays), or do multi-cam (multiple camera angles) for home video, and maybe even using it as your Tivo. It could basically turn your monitor into a picture in picture (I mean, if you wanted to see TV output on your computer screen). As depicted in the product picture, it's only S-Video and yellow/red/white composite inputs. Does what it says. It only gets 4 stars out of 5 because software included is not the most intuitive, nor is it very robust at all. However, Out of the thousands of dollars worth of things I bought this summer, this little $43 piece of equipment is the only thing I DIDN'T take back to the store for return to get all my money back.

I mean, it does the job. My wife asked for our wedding videos to be converted to DVD. I have been wanting to do this as well but did not want to just get the 1:1 conversion form the local shop. so, I got this and began to convert my old videos in my office late at nights. Actually got a decent DVD of our wedding and reception for my wife, but I was also able to get some other home videos to the PC so we could share with the kids. All in all, easy to use product. USB is going to require a decent PC setup though as the CPU is going to be doing the work during playback. I used an older ATOM the first time around and the video froze once or twice.... I would still buy it again and plan on using it again to finish my other videos off.

The Ion Audio Video to PC Converter is a good device to convert your old format videos to digital. Makes the conversion process easy. The only issue I have with the device is when you use it with a Mac. The software included works well for Windows but does not work with MAC. Other than that, this device works very well and I am happy with my purchase.

Easy to use with the software provided, only on windows 7,, I had many issues trying to use it on my windows 10 computer (freezes up, won't load properly, error messages)

The device works and is easy to install and copy vids. However it sometimes recognizes that my home vids r copyrighted! It stops recording and I have to press record again and the video ends up being broken into pieces with a couple seconds missing. That's really annoying when u hope to record and leave it for two hours to come back and see it stopped recording. It only did that for one VHS tape however so I don't know why that happened.

I would have rated a 5 except that it is a pretty advanced piece of software to edit with unless you are a highly knowledgeable video person. Otherwise it is a simple interface to get a basic copy made of your old videos. I was able to get all of my videos onto PC in just a few day. Job done and I can do more with them when I have the time.

VHS to the computer for DVD, but it did not work well for the purpose that I needed. I was attempting to go straight from the HD Camcorder to my Mac. Once I started recording, the video froze. Additionally, after the video was finally recorded and saved, it could not be opened. May work well on a PC, but just didn't work for me.

I bought to convert old videos to digital format, overall good product, Easy to use and gets the job done. Attached to VCR and to Camera via RCA then USB to my computer. worked great , Software was okay for simple edits etc but they try to sell you upgrade for more features.