elgato Game Capture HD 10025010 USB to HDMI Interface

Pros: it records

Cons: it occasionally makes your screen go black

Pros: -If you are looking to capture HD gameplay, this is what you're looking for. A must have for your gaming YouTube channel.
-The rewind feature is very helpful, this thing is always recording! so you never miss that epic moment in game.
-small and lightweight
-1080p

Cons: -always recording takes up a lot of disk space, I would recommend having at least 250GB dedicated to recordings.

Pros: Plug and play with very little setup. Works well with xbox 360 and ps3 (I haven't personally tried it on any other). Great picture. Does exactly what it is suppose to do.

Cons: There is no way (at least that I have found) to record hd voice communication via xbox or ps3 headset. It will pick up other people that you are connected with online but you have to record your own voice separately.

Other Thoughts: I don't really see a reason to own one of these if you're capturing media for tutorials or reviews, or even competitive play unless you prefer to layer in voice later. This product, in my opinion, is for casual gamers that would like to save some of their game-play for later viewing.

Pros: This needs no power
This records in high def audio and video
Long usb cord
Works with xsplt

Cons: Unless its pluged into computer it doesnt work, needs a powered pass through, i have a usb powered hub

Pros: arrived in two days free shipping and works like a charm. thanks newegg u guys never let anyone down.

Cons: none

Pros: Captures full 1080 with great quality. I tried this out with my old Pentium D 3.4 dual core and was able to capture 1080 @ 59.94 fps / 21 Mbps (159 MB/min) from my direct TV HD receiver via the component cables. I couldn't go any higher than that or it would get choppy but the picture quality was impressive. The color isn't as bright as the HDMI interface but the software does allow you to make adjustments if you think you need to. I did.

Cons: The software is limited. It would be nice to have control over the encoding process but you're limited to their selections. At the default settings of 1080 when capturing, I selected the HD MP4 as the output and the encoded MP4 file was larger than the mpeg2 file that was originally captured and it took FOREVER to do. Wondershare is WAY faster.

It would also be nice to have control over the file you are capturing. As of now it will split the capture into 4GB files so I have to merge them together. I used wondershare to re encode the captured mpeg2 instead of the included software. I took a 14GB capture and condensed it to 5GB in MP4 for my media server collection with great quality at 1080.

Other Thoughts: I bought this for my media server. I wanted to be able to record my favorite shows and have access to them over my network. I spent a year researching the right capture card after I had one die. I was hesitant to get a USB device but am glad I did. I can now record my favorite shows off of my HD receiver with great HD quality and use a little slim PC to do it. If you're picky about quality then I'd suggest capturing at the full 1080 and then re encode down to 720 versus capturing at 720. The quality difference is noticeable during the capture.
I bought a HP dc7900 Core 2 Duo E8400 Ultra-slim Desktop to replace my Pentium D for my media server. That should have enough power to capture at a higher bit rate and keep me content. Keep in mind that it can only capture as fast as your drives are. If you try to capture to a slow drive, it's gonna get choppy. I can't capture in 1080 to one of my WD 500GB my books because it's too slow. If the drive you capture to is fast enough and you have enough memory, even a Pentium D can capture with great 1080 quality.

Pros: Clear Quality
No Delay Recording
Excellent Sound
Video Editor
etc

Cons: Missing Key Video Editing Features
Doesnt work without USB power source
Video Settings may reduce Video Quality unknowingly

Other Thoughts: Overall the product is a home-run. My biggest issue with the device was when I wanted to edit the videos but I am not gonna make a big stink about that because this device is for capturing game play not editing videos so in that regards this device deserves all of it's eggs.

Pros: Don't know, doesn't work as advertised. This is console capture only, not game capture.

Cons: I bought this because, as a game developer, I wanted to capture screen records from a tablet that does HDMI output. Unfortunately in their infinite wisdom Samsung encrypts their HDMI signal(!?!). So on the Elgato all you get is a green screen. Why is this Elgato's fault? From their correspondence it's clear that they've had other customers who have encountered the same problem. It's a known issue. Yet they make no effort to mention this incompatibility anywhere. A sale's a sale to them and they could care less if you're out $170. They refuse to refund.

Other Thoughts: Newegg and Samsung both share some responsibility here too. Nowhere on the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 page does it mention that the HDMI signal is encrypted.

Pros: Very high quality, good video compression (h.264), easy live streaming and live commentating, easy to use settings, Very durable plastic, comes with an hdmi cable, program runs flawless. The only better quality capture card is the bmi, and it doesn't use file compression. I own the avermedia, hd pvr 2, bmi, and this, and it is the one I use the most. (apart from the bmi for live streaming.)

Cons: the editing software is not the best, would not recommend rendering/ using it at all, but none the less decent for a 150 dollar product.

Other Thoughts: Great Product

Pros: Good quality video and audio

Cons: When it actually works........ This thing has given me nothing but issues constantly sense I've gotten it. First it doesn't want to record audio, So I finally figure out a way to get it to record. Then it doesn't want to anymore and after 7 hours of trying to fix it and no one on the internet and Elgato them self's not having a clue whats wrong, i come up with another solution of using MSI Afterburner to record my audio while the Elgato records video. Fine that will work just fine. UNTIL IT STOPS RECORDING VIDEO!!!! Everything shows it's working perfectly but will not record. I've had it with this device, it is the worst recorder I've ever owned and going back to the HD PVR 2.

Other Thoughts: Biggest piece of POOP!