dontasciime Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 Writer HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GSA-E20N Scanner BENQ DW 1650 BCDC VERBATIM TYG03 UNBRANDED CMC MAG. AM3 INFINITI (VERBATIM) MCC 02RG20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIGHTNING UK! Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 oooohh pretty red colours! lol ... and that, people, is why we tell you not to use CMC discs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dontasciime Posted February 10, 2007 Author Share Posted February 10, 2007 In case anyone is interested this particular drive is an external drive and is a usb capture device, at the back of the external are some inputs --- composite video in (RCA) Left, Right stereo input (it also has s/video in) Tested the capture bit with the included software honestech one touch, External has a one touch button to record straight from source eg Sky/freeview etc. Seemed to work OK and quality for capture was very good, strange thing though on selecting highest res to capture it gave me a warning about having low CPU power, your having a laugh i got a core 2 duo 2.4. This drive cost me 35 GBP (retail boxed) OK I thought as it's a really nice external case/drive. Looked for firmware could not seem to find any will keep looking but if anyone has spotted some please post link, thanks Scan.co.uk have it, dabs, novatech, bigpockets, orbit computers think ebuyer has this drive as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dontasciime Posted February 12, 2007 Author Share Posted February 12, 2007 Verbatim 2.4x Burnt at 6x with LG Scanned with Benq 1650 BCIC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
volvofl10 Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 Looked for firmware could not seem to find any will keep looking but if anyone has spotted some please post link, thanks LG Australia and LG korea ( or taiwan) are usually the first with LG firmware updates , but neither are showing anything yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dontasciime Posted February 12, 2007 Author Share Posted February 12, 2007 yeah i already looked there, first port of call as you said, thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
volvofl10 Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 Donta a coupla questions if i can , does it have firewire port on the back for camcorders ?, or just the 3 coloured jack plugs what format does it save an input ,a nd does it go straight to your hdd, or try and burn to disc on the fly. iuf it had a firewire connector rather than usb2 , id definately try one ( limited to firewire with thsi laptop, and would lose wireless card if i used a pcmcia adapter for usb2 thanks volvo ' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dontasciime Posted February 13, 2007 Author Share Posted February 13, 2007 Its usb2 only. you still need pc on, as i just found out, Was sure it could record on the fly, well it can but you need pc on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lfcrule1972 Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 So donta has proved that CMC's make lovely red colours on your graphs and that even Verbatim DL's should be burnt above 2.4x !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dontasciime Posted February 14, 2007 Author Share Posted February 14, 2007 It does not record on the fly, you need PC on and even then it does not go straight to disc, there is an option for direct burning in the software but no doubt it does not mean what you think it means . It kinda buffers the capture to PC then records to disc from there. 35 quid for an external drive is bout the price you would pay for separate enclosure and OEM drive so added bonus of capture device which if i had to rate the capture bit would be about 8/10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muppetmick Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 Okay, don't have a go at me as I am a newbie! I bought one of these external writers and it has come with only the most basic of instructions. Thing is I just have no idea of where to start. I have loaded the software but I am not totally sure how I begin to convert a vhs tape to a dvd. As I have no s-video output from my vhs player do I use the scart? I keep getting the following notice: No HDLS Device detected. Please make sure your device is connected correctly and powered on. So what exactly am I doing wrong? God, I am begining to feel a blonde moment coming on! Thanks for any help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dontasciime Posted February 20, 2007 Author Share Posted February 20, 2007 when you plug it into computer if your using XP it will start to search for drivers pop cd in and let it go. Then install the software by honestech. Once loaded and it has found audio device etc , you will need to buy if you do not have one, a scart to RCA scart one end and 3 coloured pins the other Yellow-this is composite video, White and Red are Audio L/R scart goes to your VCR or external device pins go to back of LG in the corresponding coloured pins Then on the software side click on the wizaard and folow instructions. IF your using 98 or me the setup of drivers maybe different, you will need the CD for sure in 98 or ME Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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