Neuros MPEG-4 Recorder 2 Plus Digital Video Recorder

List Price: $190.81 Discount Price: $97.77

Features:

• Product Type - MPEG4 Recorder
• -ISO Standard MPEG4 SP encoding with AAC-LC audio.
• -MPEG4+AMR Audio for 3GP settings.
• Audio Encoding - all modes=128kbps AAC except AMR for 3GP settings
• Video Decoder

Customer Reviews:

love the neuros recorder 2 plus [Posted on 2008-05-04]
i did some research before i bought this ,and i just love the neuros . i recorded some of my bands videos from a dvd on to a compact flash card ,then i put the flash card into my card reader and into the usb on my computer,then i saved the files and uploaded them onto you tube,they came out great. my computer doesn't have a dvd player or a memory card slot.it an old dell. then i just got a sony psp . so i wanted to put some videos on that. my sony memory stick duo pro didnt come with a adapter , you will need that for the neuros , the adapter usually comes with the memory stick when you buy it. so i ran my dvd player into the neuros ,with the memory stick in the neuros and recorded on to it. i put it in the psp and it worked perfectly. great videos. make sure that you format the memory stick in the psp before you record on it.there are instructions in the sony psp manual on formatting the memory stick.

Very geek oriented, but more or less does the job [Posted on 2008-05-10]
The good news is that if you want to make copies of video suitable for an iPod or other small screen device, you can do it as long as the video source has a single analog out for video and one or two outs for audio.

The bad news is that the manual is opaque and you have to be very geeky to understand how to set this thing up. The video interface is something out of PacMan circa 1978. This device is not for the non-technically inclined.

The other bad news is that even at the highest resolution, the video quality is marginally suitable for TV watching. It's OK for watching on a small device like an iPod, but even when you modestly blow up the image to something like 26", you can see just how splotchy the blacks are and how grainy the image is. It's like watching a mediocre VHS tape.

This device will not be particularly good for archiving old DVDs or even VHS tapes because of the image degradation. The company suggests a different device for archiving, their OSD. That device has an extra video in, S-Video, in so it might be a little better. But if you are using RCA jacks on that device, I'm guessing you'll have the same problem as you'll have with this device in terms of poor archival video.

The bottom line is that this device is a pretty good one trick pony if you're technically inclined. And that one trick is that it can record low quality mpeg4 video suitable for an iPod or PSP onto an SD card.

makes great video but... [Posted on 2008-05-24]
The Neuros MPEG-4 records video very well. I record alot of my favorite Family Guy clips off of my TIVO and then put them on my IMAC or my PSP. They look and sound great. My only gripes are that the interface is a little confusing and the remote control for the device is a little clumsy. These are really the only two things holding it back from getting 5 stars. It does get the job done and is well worth the money!

This thing just did not work [Posted on 2008-06-04]
I only gave this product a star because I couldn't go any lower. This machine is completely unreliable. When it works it works wonderful, but it has not worked more than it has worked for me. The main problem was the formating requirements to make the memory card compatible with the recorder. If your really computer savvy it may be worth buying. But it your not, like me, I would strongly recommend against it.

Flimsy connectors and grainy MPEG compression [Posted on 2008-08-07]
I find this unit not very reliable for recording - the flimsy 1/8" connectors for A/V on the back cause video to come and go and I have to jiggle it to get a picture for recording - them sometime in the middle of recording it'll move just enough and leave me with a blank video screen with audio. OR I'll get the video channels but one of the audio channels will be off - just the left channel is recorded.

Additionally on the highest level of Quality (TV mode) the video compression is still poor and very blocky - I was expecting much higher quality at this setting then I get.

If you're considering buying this I recommend considering instead a A/V capture card for your computer - which should not have the flimsy connectors to it to cause you grief.

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