Editorial Review:

Item Description:
Dazzle DVD Recorder provides a simple, affordable way to make high-quality home video. Let your friends and family enjoy movies on professional-looking DVDs, complete with menus and chapters. This plug-and-play USB 2.0 device captures video to DVD, directly from VCRs, camcorders or other video equipment. Add your own menu and chapter functions for simple navigation. Burn your video to a DVD without first copying files to the PC hard drive, saving valuable time and space. Combined with the unique wizard-based, friendly interface of the Dazzle Instant DVD Recorder software, the powerful Dazzle video capture device allows you to quickly and affordably back up personal video collections.

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Rating: - * this program realy dosen't work well.......... ...
I JUST BUY THIS PROGRAM,BUT I CAN'T USED BECAUSE THE CODE KEYS DOSEN'T WORK I JUST TRY TO CONTACT COSTUMER SUPPORT,BUT THEY DIDN'T HELP ME THEY HAVE A STUPID SISTEM, WHEN YOU ENTERED THE KEYS CODE BECAME A POP UP WHO SAID THE KEY CODE IS NOT ACEPTED, I'M SICK AND TIRED ABOUT COSTUMER SUPPORT, FOR THIS REASON I CAN'T USED THIS PROGRAM,,,,IT REALY SUCKS!!!! DON'T BUY IT......

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Rating: - * No Stars for Anyone Here ...
Originally I bought this for an XP machine that was fried shortly thereafter. When I got my new laptop with VISTA recently I thought I'd use the Instant DVD Recorder with that. I spent two days trying to figure out just which patches I needed - the site is confusing, their product names seem to be inconsistent, and there are way too many to sort through easily. Once I picked out what I needed, each patch/update took hours on a 2.0 ghz desktop with broadband - I didn't dare try on my laptop, which is slower.

The updates and patch seemed to install correctly on the laptop, everything looked deceptively efficient, until I tried to transfer from a home-recorded tape on the vcr to a dvd, and Instant DVD Recorder software froze the video twice on two tries.

I'm thinking there might well be a setting I could alter, but that's the next story...

Ok, bad enough, but then try to get help? The manuals on line are split into chapters and download even slower than the updates. I waded through as many unhelpful windows as I could stand, then tried writing for email support. After filling out the form I was invited to create an account (no SEND button), filled out another form (still no SEND button) and got the response "There is already an account for this email address" (STILL no SEND button). Is this just Pinnacle giving me the middle digit????

I submitted a request for a password reminder and was told that tech support and two other areas required "separate" passwords. Just who are these monkeys?

So, try it, but keep the receipt and return it promptly if it doesn't work for you. I hope it does work for you, I wish it would for me, or that I could get some help.

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Rating: - * Just getting started! ...
So far I'm impressed. I took the Dazzle out of the box and burned my first Dvd from Home video and no problems. My computer is a year old. I haven't done anything else yet but I'm happy with the product. I haven't used the editing features as of yet but I know with any product, experimenting and practice comes perfection. I gave it 4 out of 5 stars since I haven't used the other features yet. So far so good!

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Rating: - * The Dazzle didn't dazzle me. ...
I'm an animation student whose school only provides us with the ability to get our work onto VHS. Basically, this is ridiculous and I need my work on a DVD or at least in some sort of digital format. This work is what's going to get me a job some day so I can't have it getting eaten up by a VCR or anything crappy that VCR/VHS do.

Grand solution: the Dazzle. Unfortunately with animation there is a complete and utter need for each and every frame to be shown and for the sound and video to ACTUALLY be in sync. The Dazzle failed to sync the sound and failed to even record more than a few seconds without dropping frames or getting frozen.

basically if you want bits and pieces of your VHS onto a DVD and want them to have sound completely off sync then the Dazzle is your product.

I'm extremely disappointed, and I am wondering if anyone knows of a product similar to this that actually works?? Because I really need one!!

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Rating: - * Not that great ...
I does kind of work. It is not really combatible with vista. After attempting to load the software numerous times I gave up. The supposed "patch" download on the pinnacle web site is incredibly hard to locate as there are numerous other options and fixes that don't pertain to my operating system. The direct to dvd burning software that came with it does work though. It's OK if all you want to do is copy vhsc direct to dvd with no editing.