It's really starting to become quite a trend for people to record their game sessions and post them on YouTube (yours truly should have a good video camera come summer...hopefully) or any other site (dailymotion, vimeo, etc), and while there are a lot of DVRs out there that will do the trick; this one in particular is my recommendation. Why? Well, read on. For what it's worth, this little device does a solid job of recording gameplay footage. The quality it records is very good, and looks clean. What's also cool about this DVR is that you can place your own logo so that people who view your video knows who it belongs to. Setup is also very simple. While it isn't overly complex, there is one catch: you HAVE to install the drivers onto your REGULAR hard drive, not an external. I learned that lesson the hard way because I prefer to use my external hard drive for most things. Plugging in your device (for example, an Xbox 360) is also very easy if you have HDMI. I prefer HDMI because it takes less time and less guess work. The price I paid for this DVR was actually quite reasonable. If I remember correctly, I paid about 80 some dollars, which is actually pretty good. Are there negatives to this? The answer is of course, but the good news is there's only one gripe I have about this device: there is a 2 to 3 second delay between shots (meaning that the TV and the recording don't sync, which can throw off your timing if you're going to take screenshots. Believe me, I've taken a few bad pictures myself because I took them too soon). Another negative is that the PS4 isn't supported. If the Xbox One is supported, why not PS4? It is true that the PS4 has its own recording device, but the problem I have with that is you can't take the images or videos from the PS4 and put those onto a flash drive (but then again, the odds of the video being huge are likely, thus taking up a lot of space on the flash drive). Overall, this device will do wonders for the video game reviewer to be (like yours truly). The only drawbacks are lack of PS4 support and delayed syncing of audio and video. On a scale of 1 to 5, I give this DVR a 3.5 out of 5.
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AuthorI am a videographer, producer and director. I have a YouTube and Twitch channel. I also have a graduate with a degree in Graphic Design from UWEC. Archives
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