| | |  | Laptops | Home » » Hauppauge ImpactVCB Video Capture Board (166) Low Profile PCI | | | | | | | Description: | | ImpactVCB is a low cost family of video capture boards which can be used as the heart of a live video display, real time video capture, streaming video or video conferencing solution. Main Features Manufacturer: Hauppauge Computer WorksManufacturer Part Number: 166Manufacturer Website Address: www.hauppauge.comProduct Type: Video Capture DeviceHost Interface: PCIFunctions: Video CapturingInterfaces/Ports: 3 x Composite - RCA Video-in , 1 x S-Video Input | | | Features: | |
• LP-PCI 1-SVID 3-RCA COMP
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 10.7 inches | | Product Width:
| 7.2 inches | | Product Height:
| 2.7 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.45 pounds | | Package Length:
| 10.8 inches | | Package Width:
| 7.1 inches | | Package Height:
| 2.8 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.6 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 6 reviews |
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1 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Piece of junkMar 06, 2009
I cannot even begin to tell you the issues I had. No sound, problem with drivers on vista, installation of some device that I cannot get rid of. WinTV display crapped when tyring to record. WinTV panel did match documentation. #rd party software was much better. Inputs not labeled in any way....etc., etc.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Great capture cardAug 08, 2008
This is a great product. I don't know what one of the other reviewers meant about having to cut or bend a piece to make it fit in the PC PCI slot. Mine fit almost perfectly (I have a slimline PC).
The product comes with a CD to install the drives and two similar software programs to run it. The software are okay but I recommend downloading DScaler (it's free, just Google it). Oh, and buy an S-video cable for your video games or VCR or dish or whatever. The quality is amazing, even for my 1680x1050 resolution monitor.
I would give it a 5 star but this is not a perfect product. The way this card displays synchronized video is incredible, even at 720x480 resolution (and doesn't lag either in full screen if you use DScaler), but when you record video, you have to record at half the height resolution or else you'll see bad odd or even lines (horizontal) recorded (even though they don't show on the preview). Perhaps this just needs an upgraded driver to record perfectly, but I couldn't find any at the Hauppage site. If anyone has a better driver for this, please email me at jskunou@hotmail.com. Thanks!
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Best multiple capture card.Jun 07, 2008
I bought this to use with Premiere Pro 2. The drivers were difficult to install and configure. Works well but cumbersome to install because the plate didn't fit in my compter. I had to bend the ear up and screw and extension to mount it in a regular PCI slot.
18 of 18 found the following review helpful:
Great Capture Card for Linux, However...Oct 09, 2007
I purchased this card after reading another review on Amazon.com which stated that this is a good card for Linux. Well, it is a great card for Linux, but once it arrived in the mail, I was somewhat disappointed to notice a few things I didn't expect with the card.
First, this card has no TV coaxial in or out. The picture here on Amazon is somewhat deceiving as you only get a side view of the card, which gives us the illusion that this thing is loaded with all kinds of input connectors. Well, it's not. The four connectors you see in the picture are all video RCA jacks. Although this card DOES come equipped with an S-Video input (not visible in the picture), you only get four RCA jacks in addition to it, and nothing else.
Second, this card may be a pain to install. I had to bend the piece of metal that SHOULD have fit into my computer case like all my other PCI devices, but because it was too short, it did not. This was OK because the piece of metal was easy to bend using a cheap pair of pliers. I had to be a little creative in breaking the piece of metal that normally sits at the edge of a PCI slot with no card present, and fit the card's bent piece of metal over it with the ports exposed in order to keep the card in the case firmly; it took about 15 minutes in all, but I'm assuming that most people would not have the patience to work out a poor man's solution like this.
Finally, there is little or no documentation on this card inside the box. My card came with the card and a CD that contains drivers for Windows. The piece of paper included was merely an instruction manual on how to install the drivers in Windows. Luckily, my distribution of Linux had a preloaded capture card driver for this device and automatically recognised the card when I booted the machine. I fired up TVtime and was blown away by the quality of the picture after thinking that I had wasted my money on such a poorly manufactured card.
Yes, this card has a good picture quality. However, there is no audio input or output, and the card comes with no cables. You will have to purchase any extra cables you need, and if you want to use this card for playing video games or watching TV, you will definitely need to purchase an extra cable so you can connect your sound directly to the input on your sound card. This won't be a problem if you just want to play some video games; you will only be looking at about $3-5 for the right audio connector at your nearest electronics store. For watching TV, though, you may need to purchase a VCR or some device allowing you to connect a coaxial cable to it, and then output the video signal to this card and the audio to your soundcard via RCA cables. Could be much more trouble than it's worth.
So, unless you're fairly proficient with computers and electronics, and unless you really need a capture card for Linux, then I would skip this card and look into a better alternative. It just isn't worth the frustration of purchasing extra equipment to make it do everything you would expect. For me, however, this card works just fine. It's unfortunate that it wouldn't fit into my computer without resorting to crude installation procedures.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 Not what I neededJan 09, 2007
This product was shipped in a timely manner, and worked. However, there is little or no information on what it does and how to operate it, either that comes with the product, or on the web site. I needed a product that that generates MPEG2 files, so that I could burn a DVD. This product doesn't do that. I had to return it and purchase the Win TV PVR-150. The new product also comes with poor documentation. You will need to experiment in order to learn how to use it.
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