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Archives => 2003 => Topic started by: jepinto on May 05, 2003, 08:59:00 PM

Title: USB Instant DVD For Mac
Post by: jepinto on May 05, 2003, 08:59:00 PM

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Instant DVD allows the capture of video from any video source including your camcorder, VCR, DVD player, DirectTV, Tivo or Replay PVR or laser disk player. Just connect the video cables to the RCA or S-VHS jacks on Instant DVD and you are ready to digitize and compress the video in real time. Once captured you can publish movies to VideoCD or DVD disk, post on the Internet or send the video back to a VCR or camcorder for distribution on Tape.

Gainesville Sun columnist Tom Meek is looking for a volunteer to test this new product. (Read the bottom of the column).

Suggested retail is $349.
System Requirements

To Capture MPEG-1 at 30 frames per second: Any Macintosh with built-in USB
To Capture MPEG-2 at 30 frames per second:

Power Mac G4 400/AGP or greater
Power Mac G4 Cube
Power Book G4 400 or greater

OS Support and other System requirements:

- Mac OS X
- 256 MB of RAM
- CD-ROM
- 100 MB hard disk space for capture/editing applications
- 3 GB minimum hard disk space recommended for capturing and editing video
- Available USB Port

[ 05-05-2003, 10:00 PM: Message edited by: jepinto ]

Title: USB Instant DVD For Mac
Post by: kelly on May 05, 2003, 10:41:00 PM

Interesting Jennie.

How can you get good video quality through USB...

"The Instant DVD includes a hardware codec (encoder/decoder) so the video is compressed in real time as DVD quality or VCD quality video (depending upon your selection) and sent down the USB cable to your Mac."

Full D1 MPEG-2 broadcast resolution (720 x 480 NTSC)

Other capture resolutions: 640 x 480......

This is a comvertor. Doesn't include a burner.

Be pretty nice at a $100 less.

But then so would most things.

Title: USB Instant DVD For Mac
Post by: jepinto on May 05, 2003, 11:19:00 PM

I think Lorraine would like it, when she goes to X.

Title: USB Instant DVD For Mac
Post by: kelly on May 09, 2003, 10:49:00 AM

"Be pretty nice at a $100 less."

How about more than $100 less?

"$229.95 Reader Special on ADS Instant DVD for Macs (list is $349) -

"Hi Mike,
We have an OWC EXCLUSIVE price on the ADS Instant DVD, the best USB video capture device for the Macintosh!
The price for XLR8YourMac readers is $229.95 through 5/19/03.
It's available on the XLR8YourMac specials page.
Thanks!
Jamie Dresser
Other World Computing, Inc."

http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/

http://eshop.macsales.com/Item_XLR8YourMac...em=ADSMACAV1750