| Customer Reviews: Average Rating: 3.5/5 |
| fantatic little box - a VCR for memory cards: Rating: 4/5 |
| I brought this for recording regular tv prog to watch on my PSP, and this it does simply and easly. works well for mobile phones as well. |
| The good the bad and the ugly...: Rating: 3/5 |
Good - it's about £100 cheaper than anything else I could find that allowed me to easily convert old videos to mp4, record TV in a PSP friendly format, and generally replace my old video recorder with a digital equivalent. It's also very small, easy to set up and allows instant recording as well as scheduled recording. Finally, it accepts many different memory cards and even acts as a memory card reader.
Bad - the remote takes a lot of getting used to. The buttons are clunky and it requires very careful aiming at the main box to work. The sound is also often very poor on the recordings. It's difficult to describe but there is often a faint whining noise in the background.
Ugly - I was hoping for better quality video. It's usable for what I need but I think it is slightly worse than the quality of my old video recorder. At times, pixelation is even noticeably on my PSP screen and can often be seen on the telly. Don't expect recorded video to be as clear as the original satellite reception. It's also a bit of a shame that you can't record to an external usb hard drive, only the memory cards.
In summary, I'm happy with the results and functionality for the price. I have now archived my old videos and have a replacement for the VCR for recording the odd TV show. However, if I was to have another chance, I think I would pay the extra and go for the Neuros OSD hoping that the picture quality would be much better.
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| Videos look OK but sound bad: Rating: 3/5 |
| I'm sure the recent upgrade made this device better, but they desperately need to address some other issues, what annoys me the most is they've improved the Video recording quality but whatever setting it's on (even 'high quality' for PC) the audio always sounds very poor, and is noticably very compressed. Until and unless they sort this out, I'm sticking to my PC's video-in device. |
| Update the firmware: Rating: 5/5 |
| I've had this device for about 5 months now, primarily bought for recording stuff off of sky+ onto both my Nokia N95 and PSP. Initially I had the same problem as previously mentioned, the interference at the bottom of psp recordings. I also found that when recording to my Nokia the resolutions of 340x240 wouldn't work either, it had to be recorded in pretty poor 177x?? resolution. So initially I would have rated the v mate 2 stars. However, last week a new firmware update was released on the sandisk site and both the PSP and Nokia work great now. The interface is greatly improved also. Now it really is a top notch little gadget. Very easy to use and setup, simply pop your memory card into it, select your recording format and press record. You can now set pre-defined recording times or if you want use the ir emitter to schedule recordings through your sky box. It actually works! |
| easy to use for ipod and psp- never buy a pop video again!!: Rating: 5/5 |
This item is easy to use and does exactly what it says it should....that is record from tv and dvd....its easy to plug into your tv and record onto...you just put in a memory card...sd or one for the psp...it takes others but i haven't tried them....then put card into psp and watch straight away...or put into pc memory card reader and pull into itunes....i have put mtv onto my ipod for free!!!!and i have recorded from my music dvds onto the card and then put that in my pc....easy...
the picture is fine and the sound quality depends on the source...but heh itunes charges a lot for videos and this records free from tv....obviously you can also record tv progs etc and put them onto your portable device too....
so 5 stars as its easy to use and works well, to be honest its just like watching tv on a portable device.... |
