Bought this box when I gave up on the ADS USB Instant DVD. Wow! What a difference a well-designed capture device makes. It has its flaws, like having to manually go into the registry in order to lock the video to the audio clock. But all in all, this box works almost perfectly for my VHS-to-DVD transfer project. It just keeps capturing away all day happily digitizing all those VHS movies. I've tried capturing with the S-video input too and the results are superb. I've also gotten good VCD and SVCD captures, the latter of which are hard to tell from DVD.

The capture software, Movie Mill, allows custom setting of avg. bitrate, max bitrate and chroma and luma filters. There's a "source is vcr" box to check that does some noise reduction and smoothing. The result is that with VHS captures, the resulting MPEG-2 movie looks better than the source material straight out of the VCR. This system is one I have found to be the most reliable, after trying many others. DVDMF reads the captured video files flawlessly and doesn't introduce authoring sync issues. It's the fastest app I've found for taking a captured MPEG and creating VOB/IFO/BUP files for DVD.

A good device that does what it claims to do.