Why I buy this one ?
- Play Games in Real Time - With GameBridge there is no lag time. Click the controller and the fast response gets you out of the tightest spots with the enhanced graphical resolution of your computer monitor.
- Record Your Best Moves and Highest Scores - Record videos of great maneuvers or take snapshots of high scores or levels, and save them to your hard disk drive or CDs.
- Share Your Favorite Moments - Prove your prowess by sharing snapshots and recordings with friends, and replaying them any time.
- Play Anywhere - GameBridge includes everything you need. One cable plugs easily into your computer's USB2.0 port, and a color-coded 4-in-1 cable connects to your game console. Everything fits in the included carrying case to easily go everywhere you want to playConvert Home Videos to VCDConvert your VHS videos and create long lasting VCD archives of your precious moments.

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"Awesome little product", I purchased this product in order to play ps2 on my computer. My current LCD tv is almost always used by my wife to watch various tv shows... This device allows me to game anytime I want from the comfort of my pc. Please note that older machines will have delay in the audio, the more CPU you use, the worse it works. I tried this on my single core 3.2 intel pentium 4 and had some major audio slowdown. However on my quad core machine it works like a charm.

"Perfect timing!", So, I bought mine about a year and a half ago, but I bought mine for about 15 bucks, right here on Amazon.com. They were having a deal that I could NOT believe! But as far as the GameBridge goes, it came with the CD and I was able to use it on my laptop no problem. I recently installed it on my PC as well that's running on Vista, and if you type into Google about using it on Vista, you can find a bunch of forums that show how to install it, and I have no problems whatsoever. The only slight problem which I easily fixed by getting a Y adapter to go from the red and white audio to a headphone connector, and then bought a little golden cylinder that takes in a headphone connector on either side just so I could connect the red and white audio connectors from my PS2 into some speakers, because if you use the GameBridge to connect your audio, I found a slight lag in it and that got annoying. But otherwise, great!

As for the cylinder thing, I don't remember what it's called, but it's a cylinder that has a female 2.5mm headphone connection on either side, so you can connect the Y-Adapter to a pair of speakers and listen from the speakers, or to a set of headphones and listen like that. Hope this helps!

"Nice Little thing, but the price lol", Gamebridge is a great tool. Quality is excellent(depending on what type of computer you use) and it's simple to use. The only thing is that i feel bad for people who are buying it now. [...]

"Gamebridge AVC-1400 for playing games on laptop", I bought the gamebridge to hookup my nintendo gamecube to my laptop so I wouldn't have to buy a tv. The installation for me was easy and I figured out how to get rid of the audio lag immediately just by searching a couple forums and following directions. The graphics are good quality, not ridiculously sharp quality, but nothing terrible either. The audio tends to shift up in pitch (modulate) for a couple seconds here and there but it doesn't really bother me too much. I would definitely recommend to anyone that doesn't want to buy a tv but would still like to play video games on their computer.

"Gamebridge does NOT work with Vista", I have recently purchased this product because I want to record video game footage without having to use a digital camera. I mostly play my Nintendo Game Cube on my computer and it gets these skips or the sound isn't perfectly balanced. I adore the features it has for example, changing the quality settings from good, better and best, able to take snapshots and the downfall about it is when I edit material that exceeds 10 minutes by using Windows Movie Maker, it will not upload the videos except getting a message that clearly states "Window's Movie Maker has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." My father bought me an Acer Extensa 5420-5687 for school and the second flaw that pertains to this staggering predicament is that when I insert the CD into the laptop and doing the necessary procedures, I get this, "No Adaptec device can be found. Setup will terminate now..." This gets 1 star based on three reasons; Adaptec is not informing anyone or updating their software it can be used for new systems, the investment of this product is incomprehensible and a waste of nineteen dollars. It will work for Windows XP but for Windows Vista, don't bother buying one, it is not worth it.

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"Sound is weird...", To be frank, the sound wobbles sometimes and chops others. It's quite annoying. The video lag was nearly unnoticeable, but if you're trying to play guitar hero or anything, it made that difficult without lots of calibration.

Still, for other things I'd say this works okay. HD imput would have been nice but for the price you get what you pay for.

"Extremely useful, but needs improvement...", I've been wanting to get a PlayStation 2 for some time now... but having a lack of money has been a problem.

Recently, I was able to finally afford to buy one, but since I don't own a TV, I needed to either wait until I could also afford that, or I needed to find a way to hook the PS2 up to my computer monitor.

Enter the GameBridge by Adaptec. This handy little box of hardware allows you to take your PS2, or any other gaming console with standard RCA audio/video outputs, or anything that uses S-Video as well, and plug it into your computer via a USB port. I thought to myself, "that sounds perfect!", and given the price of only $20.00 I thought I'd give it a try before spending $100.00 or more on a TV tuner that I could plug into my monitor via VGA or DVI connection.

The GameBridge does what it's supposed to do. It allows you to successfully hook up your console system to your computer through a USB 2.0 connection. After that, it relies on the InterVideo Home Theater software (included) to interface with the audio/video signals coming in from the GameBridge (I assume it handles this much as a streaming multimedia file). So basically, the GameBridge takes the TV audio/video signals from the console and converts them into steaming multimedia. The Home Theater software then allows you to view, listen to, and record that streaming media.

Now all that is GREAT! Unfortunately, here's where the problems come up. Firstly, as others have noted, there is low-quality graphics. This is due to the fact that standard TV signals are in either 800x600 or 640x480 resolution (I forget which) and most peoples' computers run at higher desktop resolutions than that these days (1280x960 and 1280x1024 are the most common standards of today). So when you make the Home Theater interface go full-screen, you are blowing up an 800x600 (or smaller) image to something much larger than that, and this causes a decrease in image quality.

You could theoretically reduce this by setting the PS2 up to broadcast in HDTV mode, which increases the resolution to 1080x810 (I think. This is about a 35% increase), unfortunately, the GameBridge cannot handle or convert HDTV signals from the console, so this isn't an option. We are therefore left with three choices... 1) leave things as they are and simply accept the lowered image quality, 2) get a different piece of hardware, such as a TV tuner that you can plug straight into your monitor and that is capable of utilizing and converting HDTV signals (this could improve image quality somewhat), or 3) reduce your desktop screen resolution to around 800x600 everytime you are going to be using the gaming consolse, and then switch it back again for normal computer useage (I actually cannot lower mine any smaller than 800x600 because of hardware and driver limitations).

But the problems the GameBridge has don't end there. As some of the previous reviewers have mentioned, there is an audio delay of roughly 1-3 seconds. Now, Shaun Oberlin did a review in which this problem was addressed and a website address was provided that leads to a forum message. In that forum message are instructions for how to supposedly correct this audio lag problem. Those instructions do not work, so don't bother to try them! Using those instructions, and taking them a step further, I disabled ALL of my audio and video software, drivers, and codecs, and then systematically restarted them until I found that only two are necessary for use with the GameBridge and the InterVideo Home Theater software. I disabled all others except for those two and found that while the audio lag disappears at first, it slowly returns and worsens over time as you use the console. This cannot be changed.

I did, find a suitable workaround for the audio lag problem though. I went out to RadioShack and baught a simple and inexpensive adapter (http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2103710&cp). This allows me to take the RCA Phono audio cables (the red and white ones) and convert them into standard 1/8" Stereo MiniJack and plug it into the "Line In" connection on my sound card. Now, I have the yellow, video connector connected to the GameBridge and running through USB and InterVideo Home Theater, and the red and white audio connectors are now running directly into my sound card. Because the audio signals are now handled directly by my sound card, there is absolutely NO noticeable audio lag.

This leads into a third, and very minor issue. Once I started using the audio adapter from RadioShack, and thus had no audio lag, I did notice that the GameBridge has a very slight graphical lag as well... roughly 0.25-0.5 seconds worth. Now, this really shouldn't have any adverse affects on anyone's performance in playing games... I don't even notice it during high-speed races in Gran Turismo 4, but it is something that could use improvement (although such improvement may not be technologically possible at this time).

So in summary, the GameBridge, together with the audio adapter from RadioShack (similar adapters should be available at other electronics stores as well, such as BestBuy), and a sound card that can accept 1/8" Stereo MiniJack Line In connections, will allow anyone to play their console through their computer rather than through a TV. And if you already own a computer, this is a much less expensive path than buying a TV or buying a full TV tuner for your computer monitor (such as those here at Amazon.com). You'll have to deal with low image quality, but that really cannot be helped because of the technologies being used... this is a limitation of the consoles. There are, however, three areas in which the GameBridge can use improvement... First, they could be redesigned to allow for HDTV signals from the consoles to be interpreted and converted properly to help improve image quality. Secondly, they could use their own software to interface between the GameBridge and the computer, rather than the InterVideo Home Theater software. This could give them the opportunity to create a software package that would automatically change the screen resolution that the program runs under so that people don't have to manually change their screen resolutions every time they want to play with reasonable image quality (this is the way most games made for the PC handle it if the game's resolution is lower than the desktop resolution being used on the computer). And lastly, they could either improve the way the system handles audio signals in order to eliminate the audio lag, or they could include an adapter such as the one that I'm now using.

So in short, I give this little item 3 stars. It works, but it only works well if you couple it with other items and make some adjustments. It does roughly what it's supposed to do, and does it cheaply, but it definitely needs some improvement.

"Mac Compatible?", Can anyone tell me if this can work with macs? or does HAVE to be a PC or notebook?

"Recording your games to AVI is now simple and affordable to do..", The device itself is smaller than a credit card which is a good or bad thing depending on how careful you are with it. It is also very cheaply made. You will be almost amazed at what such a small and fragile feeling device can do.

But the most important thing is, it works. You can now play any video game system right on your computer using the A/V wires that come with almost every system past and present and hook it to the plug in attachment and the device itself to the USB port with its attachment and away you go.

But of course it's not without its problems. For some reason the program was a little annoying to install. It installs the program more than once and if you have any other capture devices on the computer it seems to not like that. But a few reloads and taking the device out of USB and back in a few times and it worked fine. Results will vary depending on your own computer on how the set up process goes of course.

For such an affordible and decent capture device as well as game playing device, we really can't complain of minor difficulties like this. As long as it works, which it does then the tricks to get it work and installed are easily dealt with.

The program that it comes with will allow you to view what ever is hooked up into it at the time and to play it right on the screen with no delay noticed. Slower computers may have a problem with such things and if you don't have USB 2.0 don't even bother getting this. The best option of course is the record function where you can not only play it on your computer but record it into AVI files at the same time. So those who like to make game play videos to put up onto various websites, this is a great option to allow that.

Again slower computers will suffer minor delay problems especially when this is in recording mode. But I had my Wii hooked up and recording and had no trouble playing it all the while.

It seems too good to be true that a little cheaply made device does what it does but so far for me it's worked fine. I tested it a few times now and am quite happy with it. Sure the program it comes with isn't the best but it will allow you to record and play as you have to on your computer and thats fine for what it is.

Definitely store it in the storage bag it comes with. Its tiny and can easily be misplaced if you aren't careful with it.

Sure it's not perfect and there are a few faults with it, but its a great bang for the buck. You get what you pay for here. And here that's not such a bad thing.

"Intervideo software WARNING, comes with gamebridge", I just got my gamebridge today. Its a great device and i made a sick vid from guitar hero... however I want to send out a warning to evey coustomer out there... it seems as if I am the first person to report this kind of issue, but i downloaded my gamebridge software, and the intervideo software, which comes on the gamebridge disk today. Immeadialy, my wireless internet, and ethernet stoped working. I went under "network connections" under control pannel, and there was nothing in the folder. My computer no longer recognised any of the wireless networks available. This was so bizzare, however everything was fine just before I installed gamebridge, and then everything was messed up. I had to get a genious friend of mine to come over and resotre my computer to the day before I installed gamebridge, and it was fixed. The media player software took over many of my applications on my PC, and totally corrupted my internet applications. I believe this problem was due to the intervideo media player software that the gamebridge comes with. DO NOT I repeat DO NOT use or download this software!!!