Datavideo DAC-100 info??????

[TheInformer]

Does anyone have any experience with the Datavideo DAC-100? It looks similar to the Canopus ADVC-100 and the specs sound very similar also. The main difference is the price - the Datavideo is cheaper.

TIA...

[hakuba]

I have had a DAC-100 for about a month. Works great with
premire and synalyzer. No dropped frames yet. Have captured about 7-9
hours of Hi8 with it. XP see's it as a DV camea.

I bet the same company makes canopus's

I think either brand would work great, I delt with videoguys and they didn't handle canopus so i went with DAC-100. There are MANY messages
here about ADVC-100 and all have had good captures with it.

[The village idiot]

It will be the next analog to DV device I buy. I have a Razzle Bridge, and it is crap. Wish I could justify the DAC-2, but I have little need for component inputs beyond S-video.

[FireBird]

I've bought this one in Oct 2002, and used to capture video from VHS tapes. It's great for capturing of any kind of video signal, even from VHS (or any other video source) directly to a DV camera (with firewire input).
After tape drops (bad spots on the older used VHS tapes) de video freezes and the audio stops, when it relocks to the video, the audio stays in sync. Video inputs : Composite and Y/C (recommended), Audio inputs (stereo), Video outputs : Composite and Y/C (....), Audio outputs (stereo),
extra firewire at the front. Selectable video source (DV front/Analog inputs) and selectable sample rate for audio (12b/16b).
A little box that works....... It's my choice after reading the comments of competative products......

[monoxide77]

Does anybody know if it has the same good features of the ADVC-100, like disabling macrovision and output back to analog? and does it capture at DVD resolution?

[The village idiot]

It "captures" at the same 720x480 NTSC (don't remember the PAL res.)that they all do. It also allowes you to send the DV back out to analog. Don't know about the Macrovision.

[FireBird]

After copying several tapes (commercial) to disk (they weren't getting better), i didn't have any trouble with the macrovision, will try to capture from a DVD drive.

For more technical info, look on the website of datavideo itself.

http://www.datavideo-tek.com