Diamond Multimedia USB 2.0 HD 1080 Game Console Video Capture Device TV, Black (GC1000)

Installation:1. Connected the capture device with the supplied USB cable to PC2. Installed the drivers and software from DVD (easy)3. Connected HDPVR using supplied component cable4. Connected XBOX 360 using HDMI cable (NOT PROVIDED)Setup1. Opened HD-Capture software that was installed2. Went Setup->Capture and changed the Video Path and Capture Bitrate to High QualityCapture1. Changed the source input to component, pressed capture (software UI could be better, but it does the job)2. Changed the source input to HDMI, pressed capture3. 1:18:00 of footage resulted in 11.76GBI uploaded a clip to youtube at 1080p -> [...]Amazon didnt let me upload a high res video.PROSHas both Component and HDMI inputs (main reason i picked this up over the others)I liked how I could have both source inputs connected at the same timeEasy setup and captureCONSWindows ONLY <- wished it was supported on OSXCapture software is kinda uglyDoesn't have the feature the Elgato has buffering your footageNOTE: keep in mind that if you are using HDMI IN, to set your source to 1080i. If you have an XBOX 360 slim, make sure to turn off display discovery so you can set the display to be 1080iNOTE2: I am also using a HDMI Splitter that I also bought from Amazon (I am not using the pass through on the device)*******UPDATE*********I am planning to get a new computer. Therefore, I emailed support and asked them if their capture software supported 64 bit. Here's what the support person responded with:Ian A. <[email protected]>3:20 PM (18 hours ago)Hello,The GC1000 already works in windows 7 and 8 respectively. As far as updates for them specifically for x64 architecture, and/or OSX, I don't know of any plans for it.Ian A.Technical SupportDiamond [email protected]

Awesome Capture card, my entire team uses this card in all the studios, which is three of them.a little finiky, but nothing a quick google wont fix, it can be a bit wonky, and the DM cap program is a bit off sometimes.Def helps to have a PC with more than 2 ram (common except for with me)the hd output can be easily modified to use YWR cables instead of composite, by usuing the Y port, making retro easy to record.this product is amazing for those looking to do anything gaming related!check out our uses over on Youtube gamegoofs over there to get an idea of the content it can be used to produce.

This Capture Card works for the most part but don't expect to get the best features, there are no buttons on the capture card, they are all on the programs UI, an HDMI Cable does not come in the box, only Component and Audio. The Card does work with Windows 8.1 but has trouble recording from a laptop to a monitor, due to the refresh rate being minimized to 30 Hertz, It works fine with an Xbox 360 and for me it shipped before the first date provided. Just read the instruction booklet and it is not very hard to figure out.I would recommend you buy this product if you are looking for a mid-level capture card that doesn't break the bank and works for what you need it to do.

This thing just does not work.Let's say you load up your game, confirm that that it's displaying on DMCap (the horrible software bundled with this thing), and press record. Let's say that you then spend two hours recording footage. You look at the counter in DMCap, and it says two hours of footage has been recorded. You stop recording. Guess how much footage will be in the output file? Anywhere from 5 minutes to an hour and a half.Extremely unreliable. Take your money somewhere else.

I don't do a whole lot of video game recording so I bought this back in August of 2012 to get a feel of how this work. I went with Diamond because they used to be the company I went for when it came to video cards a very long time ago and wanted to give them a try again. Another reason I was eyeballing this was because it doesn't require too many cables and was powered by USB so it was perfect for laptop so I didn't need to have a PC next to my TV and consoles. I was also not familiar with Elgato or Hauppauge at the time when I was shopping around. I eventually moved no Hauppauge 3 months later and never been happier and am now looking at the Elgato Standard/H60 for its portability.The Diamond GC1000 worked well on Windows 7 but it was when I upgraded to Windows 8 that the problems started happening. Diamond didn't bother updating the software to Windows 8 until 7-8 months later (April of 2013). With windows 8, another problem I ran into with the Diamond GC1000 is that I use this maybe once every 3-4 months on a Samung Laptop with 8GB of memory and a core i5 and everytime I run it in Windows 8.1, it just doesn't work. I have to uninstall and reinstall DMcap and the drivers to fix the issue because all I get from the video feedback was a black screen instead of a blue screen. This is with version 1.0 of their software.As of 6/2/2015, doing the uninstall/reinstall doesn't help anymore with version 1.02 of DMcap and its drivers on Windows 8.1, the video feedback locks up when I hit the record button but you see a timer indicating that it is recording, when you stop the recording 3 minutes later all you get is a 4MB file which is like the first 3 seconds of the video.The lack of support for this device is just disappointing. When it worked, it does a good job. But now? There's not reason to buy this, spend a little more money and get the Hauppauge or Elgato which is still updating their software.