Adaptec GameBridge TV AVC-1410 turns your PC or notebook into a gaming and entertainment center. Connect your PS 2, Xbox, Xbox 360 and GameCube game consoles to your PC or notebook, and play games in real time all through your computer. Connect it to an antenna, cable, or set-top box to watch and record your favorite TV shows.With GameBridge TV there's no lag time. Click the controller and the fast response gets you out of the tightest spots. You'll even see things more clearly, since your computer monitor provides better graphical resolution than a standard TV.Use the handy on-screen control panel to record videos of your best maneuvers or take snapshots of your best score or level. Save them to your hard disk, VCD, or DVD, and always have a library of your best performances and favorite moves.GameBridge TV snapshots and recordings make it simple to show your friends and brag to them about how you moved to the next level, share high scores, and prove your prowess. Replay them any time.GameBridge TV also provides a very affordable way to add an extra TV or to gain the benefits of a Personal Video Recorder (PVR). Schedule recordings to your hard drive and never miss your favorite shows again. Take snapshots of any scene. The integrated remote control lets you sit back, get comfortable and move between up to 125 channels. With GameBridge TV, you can even preview a thumbnail image of what's on a channel before you choose it.GameBridge TV includes everything you need, even cables. One cable plugs easily into your computer's USB2.0 port, a color-coded 4-in-1 cable provides a simple connection to your game console, and a third cable connects your TV source to your GameBridge TV. The credit-card-sized GameBridge TV unit and all its cables fit into the included carrying case, so you can easily take them anywhere you take your computer.Convert Home Videos to VCD/DVD Convert your VHS videos and create long lasting VCD/DVD archives of your precious moments.
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Customer Rating: Summary: video and audio lag Comment: Gamebridge installed easily. However the best video quality was achieved using dscaler software, not the included software. Reason for buying was using with xbox360. When playing the games, there was a lag of about a second or less. Disasterous when playing on line. The video quality was not as good as other capturing devices. It appears that this is probably the closest you'll be able to get to playing in real time on a laptop. If capturing is what you want, spend a little more on another device. If gaming is what you want, you'll be dissapointed. Customer Rating: Summary: great item for the price Comment: this is a great item for the price. I use it to record in game play for my xbox360. Contrary to what is said, you can get this to work with a vista machine just takes a few extra steps and some freeware. Customer Rating: Summary: havent been able to try it yet because Comment: there is no Vista Support
i repeat, DO NOT BUY IF YOU HAVE VISTA!
there is no vista drivers available, nor will there be any released.
i have yet to try this on an XP computer, form what im reading, it works well.
Customer Rating: Summary: Does What it is supposed to do. Comment: I usually don't write reviews, just buy. This product works as advertised. I got the whole thing up and running on my laptop in about 10 minutes. I run my PS2 on it and it works great. If you want to have your game console with you while you travel and use a laptop to play it, this is definitely the product to buy. Customer Rating: Summary: Audio lag problem Comment: Okay, as long as you can find a way to pipe your audio in without the game bridge this thing will work fine for you. As others have said, this device will lag the audio (by quite a bit, more than 3 seconds) of any signal it feeds, which is odd because the video part works fine. Browsing adaptecs website for this issue is no help, and there doesnt seem to be any updated drivers or any way at all to fix the problem.
Most everything ive tried to use it for, ive been able to route around this problem by sending the sound into the line-in on my soundcard. But it is an extra step that shouldnt be necessary, and also makes the device completely useless as a TV tuner.
I gave it 2 stars because it isnt -quite- bad enough to rate rock bottom, but it is close.
