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ARCSOFT ShowBiz DVD ( Windows )

ARCSOFT ShowBiz DVD ( Windows )

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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Wish it would work, buggy performance and no support
Review: Software doesn't work as advertised, I have yet to create a clean DVD output. Captures video okay but Write to DVD and Export do not work. Both quit partially into the process and report that the operation was successful when the finished file or DVD only contains part of the data. You can watch the progress jump from xx% to 100% in one step with no errors reported. In export it appears to be a problem with handling larger than 2 GByte files, in write to DVD the stop point appears to be random.

Multiple questions to Arcsoft have only resulted in automated replies. Replies to the replies as Arcsoft requests only result in the return message that there server did not accept the reply.

I would avoid all Arcsoft products.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: No problems with Showbiz!
Review: The product doesnt work - can't burn a proper DVD - a 40 minute vhs tape took 4 hours to render and burn - plopped it into the DVD player and no sound. Contacted Tech Support - No phone only email and "ONLINE" Support - I emailed my problem and got a message back need version number - after sending version number the response was check our online system. If you cant find the answer there - submit a question DUHHHHHHH - I think I submitted a question. The straight VHS to DVD burns fine, if you plan on editing stay away from this package.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Another wasted software purchase
Review: The product doesnt work - can't burn a proper DVD - a 40 minute vhs tape took 4 hours to render and burn - plopped it into the DVD player and no sound. Contacted Tech Support - No phone only email and "ONLINE" Support - I emailed my problem and got a message back need version number - after sending version number the response was check our online system. If you cant find the answer there - submit a question DUHHHHHHH - I think I submitted a question. The straight VHS to DVD burns fine, if you plan on editing stay away from this package.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: I found it to be unusable.
Review: This software came with my HP 300i DVD burner which I purchased during July 2003. It may have worked with a given set of hardware and video formats in the lab but it did not work for me. Most of the time it either reported that the file format was incompatable or crashed. It even took XP down with it ! Note that ULEAD's products (and others) had no problems with these files.

I see this product as a black mark for Arcsoft and HP. It seems the neither of these firms took the time to do realistic testing prior to shipping it. HP has promised an updated version but we are still waiting 3 months latter.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Didn't work for me
Review: This software came with the HP media center computer. Each time I tried to burn a dvd, the program would not recognize the dvd. I repeatedly loaded the dvd--to no avail. I finally abandoned using this program to make dvds.


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