With the Adaptec FireConnect 8300, you can replace your old FireWire card without replacing any cables or devices. The card has two 9-pin FireWire 800 ports for today's fastest... more
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With the Adaptec FireConnect 8300, you can replace your old FireWire card without replacing any cables or devices. The card has two 9-pin FireWire 800 ports for today's fastest peripherals and one 6-pin legacy port to support FireWire 400 devices. The OHCI-compliant 1394/FireWire host adapter for PC and Macintosh systems provides plug-and-play connectivity for FireWire devices such as hard drives, CD-RWs, scanners and camcorders. The card provides isochronous data transmission for digital video. Connect up to 63 daisy-chained external FireWire 800/1394/i.Link devices with transmission rates of up to 800Mbits/sec - equivalent to 100Mbytes/sec.
Software / system requirements
OS Required: Apple MacOS 9.1 or later, Apple MacOS X 10.2.5 or later, Microsoft Windows 98SE/2000/ME/XP
Peripheral / Interface Devices: CD-ROM, PCI slot
System Requirements Details:
MacOS 9.1 or later - PowerPC G3 - RAM 96 MB ( FireWire )
MacOS X 10.2.5 or later - PowerPC G4 - RAM 128 MB ( FireWire 800 )
Advantages: Works well out of box; captures video as MPEG-2 flawlessly Disadvantages: Stopped working after a Microsoft update - Adaptec will not offer free fix.
...Product served me well for transferring several piles of VHS tapes to my Media Center 2005 machine. Then - Microsoft came out with some software update and product only works for a limited time. Pause it while recording and the PC freezes. restart the PC and it no longer detects the device. Remove device - uninstall drivers and uninstalling WinDVR 3 all temporary fixes - problem reoccurs. Doing the C++ registry hack worked very limited, now does not. Adaptec - with this known problem - can not even be contacted outside of their "pay" support. Adaptec has not updated their searchable database with the "fix" - they apparently demand their customers to pay them before they assist. A sad state of affairs within a once-great company. Shame on you, Adaptec!...
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Advantages: Very Good Quality, Excellent SilverFast Software Disadvantages: Abit Large, Dust Removal Software Not Good
...The HP ScanJet 8300 is a Professional Image Scanner from HP's Scan jet series. This is one of the top end Scanners HP manufacture and is ideal for the business domain. There is also an 8300gp model of this scanner which is a Graphic Arts scanner and has a monitor color-meter calibrator as a added feature ideal for graphic designers.
Now about the HP ScanJet 8300, the scanner has an OR (Optical Resolution) of 4800x4800dpi and will scan high dynamic range in 48bit colour. This is fine for transparency and negative scanning.
The scanner has a max reflection area of around A4 size. HP includes film holders which will hold 3 strips, 6 frames of a 35mm film. The holders can be placed in the base of the scanner for storage.
The ScanJet 8300 is supplied with HP's own photosmart software. I wasn't impressed with the scan pro scanning. It has...
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Advantages: Portable Device,Good for small time duration capturing Disadvantages: To convert 30 minutes of captured video it takes around two hours
...It Captures the Video in real time mode but drops number of frames.So you donot get the smooth motion of a scene. Same result is observed in the video cd. The manufacturer has set the time limit for capturing to only 600 seconds. After that audio & video goes out of sync
The software(sonic My DVD is supplied with the unit is also not user friendly.It is very slow. One major drawback is in preview mode, the source sound gets muted.It becomes difficult to recognise the scene.In video editing mode,after trimming unwanted footege,the audio video synchronisation goes totally out.The resulting vcd projet has very poor quality with lot of pauses and choppy movements.Very Furstrating.other capture devices has got far better quality than this Adaptec AVC-1100....
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My name is Mariana, and I am a blackberry addict. Having put this out there, I feel I must explain myself. I have always been much of a phone enthusiast, but for high tech features and rather for their beauty. With the in mind, I have always fallen in... more
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24.09.2007
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