I purchased this to record what I see on my computer monitor in basically the same quality as what I see. Note normally I have my PC set to output 1080 as that is what my monitor is but 1080 results in a file much(almost 2x larger) than 720 and no real difference in picture quality so when recording I set my PC to output 720. Also there are 3 recording picture quality settings on the Avermedia and while I played around with all 3 I ended up on MAX TIME(10mBps) which again basically mirrors what I see on my display. I'm recording non CP'd streaming of old TV programs and musical clips and for that the Avermedia device works quite well and even has some crude editing which is nice. I didn't have much luck with the included USB3 thumb drive but I hooked up a older 500GB Toshiba portable USB powered HDD and it works great, I believe giving me something like 100hrs at my quality setting. Note even set to 720 on my PC and the highest compression on the Avermedia it still takes about 4.5GB(standard SL DVD) to hold about 1hrs worth of recording, best to stick with HDDs or maybe BDs if you want optical media.
I configured mine to output a passthru signal all the time, even when off and I turned off live option??(so you could see more OSDs) as having it set that way degraded the picture(text) too much for my liking.
Overall I'm happy with the device for what it does.
| Hard Drive | 32 GB |
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