Plextor ConvertX PXM402U

Pros: Outstanding Tech Support Ease of use

Cons: None

The Bottom Line: The ease of us is amazing. Just plug up and go. Tech support is outstanding.

Review: I received my Plextor PX-M402U yesterday. After hooking everything up the device would not work. Everything pointed to the device drivers not being installed properly. This morning I called Tech Support. I was on hold for only about 5 minutes ...

Pros: great quality, easy use, quick conversion

Cons: The cables included were very short and they were not shielded very well against noise.

Review: The analogue to digital conversion is very nice. The hardware level conversion makes matters simple enough to where all one's computer must do is store the data stream from the device onto a hard drive. The multiple formats you can have the device ...

Pros: High quality divx rendering, high speed divx rendering, lots of output qualitiy choices

Cons: None that occur to me.

Review: I currently own a ReplayTV and wanted to come up with a way to quickly produce divx copies of my recorded shows. Software based divx rendering takes too long. Also, with my Replaytv, I can record without commercials (it edits them out as it records). ...

Pros: easy to install and compatible with various software options

Cons: None

Review: While I can't say I know much about video editing, I do know that I need to convert lots of old VHS and other format material to digital format for inclusion in professional training workshops that I develop. I read the professional reviews of the ...

Pros: plug in play very easy to install,

Cons: cant split the divx files to the size i need

The Bottom Line: buy it! WHY NOT, IT WORKS, AND IT HAS DONE EVERYTHING I NEEDED IT TO DO!

Review: every thing works, except a few things, i opened up the box, installed it without even looking at the instructions, opend the creator software and was converting video and audio (in sync) within min. very simple and easy to use software that seems to ...

Pros: Video capture is easy to use, lots of quality choices

Cons: DVD creation is S..L..0..W

The Bottom Line: for a few transfers, consider paying the $20 per tape for someone else to do it..otherwise i think this is a good video capture device

Review: I purchased the M402U after returning an AV100U..the AV100 had some horrible buzzing sound on everything I tried to record...apparently it's internal conversion scheme was more than my processor could handle (which surprised me since it's a new 64-bit ...

Pros: Easy setup, easy to use, Divx

Cons: Memory and CPU hog.

Review: After reading reviews both for and against this product I decided to go ahead and buy it after reading the review in the July issue of Maximum PC. I have been very happy with the results, setup was a snap and the video quality is excellent. Like many I ...

Pros: Low CPU requirements. Easy to use. Better quality than cheaper products.

Cons: Plextor support is a bit lacking.

Review: Someone else here says the Plextor PX-M402U does not work with Vista. Well, I beg to differ. As soon as I plugged my Plextor into my Vista Ultimate box, Windows automatically downloaded the correct device driver (v2.3.0.3). I then installed the WinDVD ...

Pros: Excellent video capture quality So simple to use

Cons: Endless rerendering with computer CPU Very poor software in the package

The Bottom Line: It's a decent product to buy if you plan to buy a DVD recorder.

Review: I read the review by VicWang and share the disappointment for DivX users. This unit has a terrible problem with re-compression due to the crappy DVD Creator 2 software doing endless re-rendering every time. They promise to fix this, but users will have ...

Pros: Several compression choices for converting analog videotape to digital video files.

Cons: Short programing suffers in quality.

The Bottom Line: I WANT TO BE ABLE TO UPLOAD TO YOUTUBE, until I learn how to do that, I cannot recommend this product.

Review: Overall I liked many aspects of the Plextor CovertX PX-TV402U for the Mac, however, however, the software that is bundled with Plextor is made by elgato and seems to not recognized the importance of bigger file sizes for short programs. After ...