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Rescue Your Videotapes | 
 enlarge | From: Magix Entertainment Ltd
Category: Software
List Price: £49.99
Buy New: £34.90
You Save: £15.09 (30%)
New (8) Used (1) from £27.51
Rating:  16 reviews
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows Xp, Windows 2000
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 1.9
EAN: 4017218653825
ASIN: B00190Z78U
Release Date: June 10, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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 If you're even thinking of buying this - then do!!! September 22, 2008
Mr. P. Kennedy (UK)
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
Rescue Your Videotapes
Have to agree with the other reviewer here. A worthy, worthy piece of kit with with a top notch bundle of software. Some companies charge hundreds for the software alone, but to get that stunning piece of kit that does exactly what it says out of the box too - wow!
Great job! September 11, 2008
Big Jim (Europe)
12 out of 14 found this review helpful
I never thought that it is that easy. No problems with the hardware and the software was easy to use. Good solution to record and burn old VHS tapes....
Does exactly what it says if you have the system requirements it states October 25, 2008
David Fletcher (Bristol)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
I installed this on my machine with the system requirements matching what it states on this product and it works great, had tons of old vhs recordings of bbq's and such like from my teen years and its been hilarious to get them off the tapes and up onto Youtube/facebook etc so thanks Magix. No problems with syncing at all! (Just remember to have a machine powerful enough (read the system requirements) and hey presto! no problem!
 Only useful if you have a good enough computer October 27, 2008
M. Eagle (UK)
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
Having thought my PC would be able to cope with running this program I was sadly mistaken. Even though it met minimum requirements I could only capture the recording at VHS quality. Any higher and the sound would stutter. Even at VHS quality I noticed sound lag compared to the picture. I even downloaded the new XP service pack 3 compatible drivers from the Magix website but that caused the software to only allow selection of the soundcard drivers and not those for the USB capture device!
Lucky for me I have a newer laptop which has an AMD Sempron processor, AMD processors I am led to believe are the better chips for handling graphics programs. Anyway I installed the software on that and was able to capture video at DVD quality with the processor only running at 50% capacity. Having captured the video successfully the software comes into its own, allowing you to create DVD menu's and chapter selection screens, onto which you can import your own pictures and music. Be prepared to wait a long time to write the final project to disc though, for a half hour recording it took just over 1 hour to encode and write the data to disc, which for some reason required MPEG2 activation from Magix via an emailed code. Also be prepared for the recording to take up a lot of hard drive space. The half hour recording took up 2 gigabytes of space! Playing back the recorded DVD is just like any other and the picture and sound seemed to be in sync.
The software does have other bonuses, you can import DVD or video files and alter them amongst other things.
Like many others have said the Magix support website isnt very helpful and if i hadnt had the laptop which solved the problems, I like others would have sent this product back. As it is when I sent an email request they wanted me to download a fault finding program even though I gave explicit detail as to what went wrong. They dont even have a dedicated forum of any worth for this particular product. When the product works it does the job well but when it cripples your PC trying to run it it is poor. To be honest you should only consider this solution if you have a dual core processor with lots of memory, a decent graphics card and a fairly large hard drive!
EASY VIDEO TRANSFER October 2, 2008
Julie Richardson (UK)
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
Rescue Your Videotapes does exactly what it says on the box. This is a great value product and the conection leads in the box are top quality. It was so simple as I am not a techie and did wonder if it might be too complicated - well done these MAGIX people.10/10
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