Received DVNowAV and am confused. The breakout box is not the same as pictured or described in the manual (and not what I expected.) There is no Firewire connection on it. My vendor says Dazzle has not been able to make the technology work (a straight-thru connection is high-tech?)and I am just supposed to hook my digital camera directly to the Firewire connector on the PC card. Do you other users have a Firewire port on your breakout box?
quote:Originally posted by slove:
Received DVNowAV and am confused. The breakout box is not the same as pictured or described in the manual (and not what I expected.) There is no Firewire connection on it. My vendor says Dazzle has not been able to make the technology work (a straight-thru connection is high-tech?)and I am just supposed to hook my digital camera directly to the Firewire connector on the PC card. Do you other users have a Firewire port on your breakout box?
No Firewire Port on breakout box whatsoever.
It's a joke they give us a manual and show some pics about it but as soon as you open the package you get less then expected.
Shouldn't we get a rebate?
Question. Are you otherwise happy with the performance?
quote:Originally posted by Jumpstart:
No Firewire Port on breakout box whatsoever.
It's a joke they give us a manual and show some pics about it but as soon as you open the package you get less then expected.
Shouldn't we get a rebate?
I'm very happy about the product but was a bit disappointed when found that the specs were different from the ones on the packaging...
quote:Originally posted by slove:
Question. Are you otherwise happy with the performance?
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I noticed the same lack of 1394 output on my breakout box as well. I, too, feel that this is a gross mis-representation. Grossly misrepresented, in my estimation, because I don't even require that all packaging be stickered to warn the prospective consumer. All I ask is that there be a tech support document pertaining to this deficiency. But, there is no such tech support document.
One might argue (although a weak argument at best), that it takes too much time and money to change a web site.
Well ... somebody's sitting there with the HTML editor and somebody could overlay a little warning text at the site to let people know that the product may or may not be as it appears.
It's easy enough to find the time to post more marketing hyperbole to the site. But, it's too much trouble to correct a gross error? I don't see any logic in that.
Hell. If it's okay to misrepresent to that extent, why not kick it up a notch. Have some real fun with the game. Render an image for the product that shows a Liquid Crystal Display monitor built into the breakout box.
Go even further. Why not? In the web site image and on the product carton, put a little microwave receiving antenna on top of the thing.
Like the man said, are you really feeling short-changed if the performance is outstanding?
Outstanding? Yes, it's outstanding. I spent 3 hours trying to get this DV.now.AV to boot past the BIOS POST. Wouldn't budge even when the DV.now.AV was the only card installed in the PCI slot array.
To me? That's truly outstanding. I've never purchased a computer product that is so dead on arrival. Yes. That's outstanding performance--surely is.
Doesn't matter to me anymore. I've got my RMA from the vendor and I'm taking my money and heading for the high ground before the swamp water rises so high that we all choke.
--Bing
Big deal. Two 6-pin IEEE connectors on the card is probably better than one 4-pin on a breakout box. In any case, the documentation was printed before the product was ready to ship. I do not see any reference to an IEEE connector on the breakout box anywhere than in the manual. Not a big issue for me.
But I agree that it should at least be listed as a correction in the readme file!
I just want to say, that in a new shiped cards there is a DV conector on I/O Box. Its not a misprint.
Im not agree with Bing_Go. I've instaled DV.now on many different computers and its almost allways work without any problems. Problems, if happens, are only when computer is not competently configured.
Hard cuts, mori@k
Bing may well have a bad card. On most systems with problems it at least gets through POST. Just about every manufacturer ships a bad card every now and then - consider all the recalls we see by auto makers, tire makers, etc. Few do 100% testing. I suppose that he could try work a swap with his vendor - but maybe best he just return it.