#Ez grabber user manual software
Sometimes the software is custom-written, or a licensed commercial product, although with some of the cheaper products, I'm guessing that sometimes it is not either of those things. The real difference between legitimate companies (like Startech, Diamond,, and Geniatech/Mygica) and the scam artists who sell the various Eas圜ap fakes is that the legitimate companies attempt to provide at least marginal support for their products, possibly a warranty, and the hardware used is consistent.
However I did visit the actual maker's site at one point and saw the same card there. Neither company discloses the source of their cards, but I read about it here There used to be a link to the real maker there at one point, but it has been removed. Micomsoft and Startech bundle their own choice of software, but the hardware is actually made by a Chinese company. The rather costly Micomsoft SC-500N1 card is the same hardware as the StarTech PEXHDCAP. The practice isn't restricted to cheap devices. What makes you think that makes their own hardware? I have seen too many other products that use the same enclosure to think that is likely. The VC500 provides neither, and its distribution/marketing channels seem very dubious to me. I do prefer to deal with a company manufacturing its own wares, but wouldn't mind something re-branded if there's some certification of quality provided and/or more info of source. Yes, re-branding is not new in the industry. I don't see the VC500 as anything different. In capture devices, that also describes pretty much all the fakes, and other bad, untested, products flooding the market bundled with components that are cheap, or are packaged efforts to pass off as something else, etc. I found some indication at a Linux hardware website that the Diamond VC500CXT and the EZGrabber2 are the same hardware.ĭiamond buys hardware from various Chinese sources, bundles it with their choice of software, creates a name for the bundles and sells them as Diamond products.Bundling products made by someone else and re-branding is a long-established practice in the electronics industry, so I don't know what you find particularly suspicious about this. However, since Diamond usually re-sells hardware made by some other company under the Diamond name, it is not out of the realm of possibility that Diamond buys their hardware from Geniatech to be able to offer an inexpensive USB capture device to their customers, or both Diamond and Geniatech buy their hardware from the same source. The EZ Grabber hardware from Geniatech appears to be more similar to the Diamond VC500CXT than anything sold by. or maybe using "EZ" in a product name is not all that unusual. Care to guess the name of the bundled capture software Diamond used for their VC500 capture device? See. I guess Diamond is trading on the name too.
#Ez grabber user manual mods
But I may have problems with the Mods if I mention it. Or maybe some astronomically improbable coincidence.Īnd there's another reason. Well the fact that it has the letters "EZ" in its name, which belong to the REAL one, has all the glorious stink of a counterfeit to me. I never claimed the EZ Grabber was any good, just that it isn't technically a counterfeit of the device.
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