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Summary: Don't waste your time on HP Media Writer
Review: I bought myself a DC3000 as a birthday present and instead got hours of frustration from a product that does not work. The drive is simply "not recognized" by my brand new Dell with USB 2.0 and oceans of RAM memory and disk space. Having read other reviews before purchasing, I was ready to accept that not all the high-tech editing functions worked smoothly, but at least (I thought) I will be able to copy home videos to DVD. Wrong, wrong, wrong.I am persistent and reasonably knowledgable about installation and debugging. I followed every piece of advice, restarted my machine "clean" with no background softwate to interfere, tried and re-tried the HP-recommended steps with the help of a tech. I can only conclude that that there is a bug in the installation software. After several tedious debugging routines, the HP tech finally conceded that there was a defect, but he couldn't solve the problem. This is not yet consumer-ready -- if you want something that works out of the box, look elsewhere.
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Summary: Is not so good after all
Review: There are many factors about DVD recording as I learned from this device. First, at least 20GB of free memory should be saved on your hardrive, I ended up buying an external hardrive to fix this problem. Then it takes forever to record a two hour movie, and if for whatever reason your DVD+R/RW can't take it all in because it doesn't know who much space it has before hand, it stops at the last minute of the 6hr time to let you know that it doesn't have enough space, so please try again, from the start. Finally, when it is all fixed, it doesn't write smoothly, it records with flickers all through out. This device makes you want to use VHS tapes forever.
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Summary: WILL NOT WORK WITH ALL MEDIA
Review: I just hung up the phone with their support desk. The machine kept spitting out a brand new FujiFilm DVD-R and telling me no media has been detected. So I brought the DVD-R back, thinking it was faulty. I bought a Verbatim DVD-R and everything worked perfectly. The next DVD I tried to create with a TDK DVD-R and I had the same problem. HP Support has told me that they are having compatibility issues and they can only guarantee that HP and Sony DVD's will work with this machine. This is a waste of money for me since I have to now go out of my way to buy Verbatim, HP or Sony DVD-Rs. Avoid this product!!
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Summary: Thank You HP
Review: I have been working with my old home movies with an ATI capture card and an internal burner, burning to both VCD and DVD formats. So far none have produced satisfactory results for archiving my old home movies - until now! I am thrilled with the results from both this product and the software that it came with. I had some problems with the software but one e-mail to HP tech support and the problem was solved. I've had it for over a month and have tested it pretty thoroughly. Did I mention I'm thrilled with the product!
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Summary: A great product that does what it says
Review: Having read all of the reviews on this site, I was somewhat skeptical and anxious about buying the product (having tried and returned the similar Dazzle product about 2 1/2 years ago). However, I read all of the trouble-shooting hints at http://k0lee.com/dc3000/index.htm and made sure to follow all of the advice there (including the order in which to plug in the device to the PC and to the power source) BEFORE trying to burn anything. After all new drivers were downloaded, and settings adjusted, and screen savers disabled, it worked like a charm on my very first try, and I have been burning away making 2 hour DVDs of my 8mm tapes. The criticism of ShowBiz 2.0 seems justified (and it seems to have a 90 minute transfer limit, not 2 hours), but for straight tape-to-DVD transfer, the HP Transfer Wizard (which runs ShowBiz 2.0 in the background, without any user interface) was mindlessly easy, and created full 2-hour DVDs. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: It worked for me just fine
Review: The DC3000 installed first time out of the box for me with no problems. I've successfully copied 12 hrs. of vhs tapes and another 6 hrs. of 8mm sony tapes. I'm using a Compaq Presario laptop with USB 1.1, a spare 15 Gigs of disk space, with 128 meg of RAM -- not a souped up system for sure. I've been using Fujifilm DVD+R and DVD+R/W blanks, as the two HP sample DVDs gave me a problem. The Muvee Producer software provided was enough to show me that I wanted to buy the $19.95 upgrade to the full version - 3.0. This product will pay huge dividends to those who try it. It is cool, even just to package digital photos in an interesting movie format, forgetting the clips from the videos I can insert from my DVDs now. I haven't read great things about the Arcsoft Showbiz package, but I haven't played enough with that to give it a thumbs up or down for me yet. After I finish converting all of the movies that I want to do, I'll be left with an external DVD drive that I can move between my desktop and laptop. Not bad at all. - a pleased user with expanded horizons
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Summary: easy install and detected by win xp good result
Review: with the name of God
1.this product is very good but sometimes it captured good video with bad audio.
2.you awlays need to restart your pc next capture to a void bad result
3. realy it works with dvd+ only not dvd-. dvd- cheaper.
4. i burnt 100 memorex dvd i got 4 dvds damage :).
5.it will work good if you use USB2 and better with intel main board.
6. do not foget to update win xp with sp1.
7. easy install and detected by win xp.
GoOd Luck
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Summary: Don't waste your time on HP Media Writer
Review: I bought myself a DC3000 as a birthday present and instead got hours of frustration from a product that does not work. The drive is simply "not recognized" by my brand new Dell with USB 2.0 and oceans of RAM memory and disk space. Having read other reviews before purchasing, I was ready to accept that not all the high-tech editing functions worked smoothly, but at least (I thought) I will be able to copy home videos to DVD. Wrong, wrong, wrong. I am persistent and reasonably knowledgable about installation and debugging. I followed every piece of advice, restarted my machine "clean" with no background softwate to interfere, tried and re-tried the HP-recommended steps with the help of a tech. I can only conclude that that there is a bug in the installation software. After several tedious debugging routines, the HP tech finally conceded that there was a defect, but he couldn't solve the problem. This is not yet consumer-ready -- if you want something that works out of the box, look elsewhere.
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Summary: The worst piece of electronic equipment I've ever purchased!
Review: I wanted to like this DVD/Movie Writer so much, but I've now owned the system for 5 months and have only been able to record small snippets of DVD movies, because the system keeps failing. For several months, HP technical support strung me along, telling me they would send a software update because I my Windows XP operating system wouldn't recognize the system. I kept callng. I finally got someone at HP to admit that it was a hardware problem. They sent me a new unit. I attached it and recorded a couple of DVD's. However, I made a critical mistake. I actually unplugged the system (appropriately, when the computer was off). The next time I reattached the drive, XP wouldn't recognize it. The video capture is broken and I've literally already spent over 4 hours online with their tech support. Purchase a regular DVD burner and a separate video capture card. It may not be as well integrated, but it least you have a better chance of making it work
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Summary: DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY AND TIME
Review: I bought a dc3000 and tried to install it to my PC and also my laptop. I studied on that 3 days but it was frustration. It drove me crazy! I tried many options,like winxp update, bios update,second high speed USB port, many reconnection, plug in-plug out, cable change,and finally reinstallation everything etc.etc. but fail. Another strange issue is that there is no action from insensitive HP in spite of many forums discussing the dc3000 problems!!!unbelievable!!, Do not waste your time and money like me.
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