Anyone experience with the HD PVR Rocket?

Andrew Flint said:
Personally I've had a look at the Rocket (a friend has it, I've got the HDPVR 2 Gaming Edition).. It seems pretty cool, you can have live game commentary and stuff or you can add it with the software like the HDPVR I have.. it's got a 4MBPS higher recording rate than the HDPVR 2.. but the thumbdrive idea isn't amazing.. you need something like a 16GB-32GB thumb drive to really take advantage of it, I mean these don't cost too much but you can't plug a 500GB-1TB External HD into it which would probably be cheaper and it would hold more..

Overall they're pretty cool and rather impressive, excellent video quality and a great idea with the live com feature.. will be great for taking to events and such as you don't need to take a laptop or anything and you can just plug in the headsets they provide to give a live commentary at the event for uploading later. If I get bigger one day and get invited to live events for releases and previews I might invest in one :)
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Indeed I heard that a 16GB thumbdrive is only 4 hours of footage. I do have an 500GB HDD, do you think that works on the HD PVR Rocket as well and where does the device get it's power from? :P
That was my main question. It seems it doesn't need power from an adapter, but I find it hardly to believe it doesn't need any power at all.
 
JosPlays said:
Indeed I heard that a 16GB thumbdrive is only 4 hours of footage. I do have an 500GB HDD, do you think that works on the HD PVR Rocket as well and where does the device get it's power from? :P
That was my main question. It seems it doesn't need power from an adapter, but I find it hardly to believe it doesn't need any power at all.
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I didn't get an amazing look at it, but basically it ONLY takes USB thumb drives (my mate had a 64gb one plugged in).
I imagine it takes power from the HDMI cable running through it.
 
Andrew Flint said:
I didn't get an amazing look at it, but basically it ONLY takes USB thumb drives (my mate had a 64gb one plugged in).
I imagine it takes power from the HDMI cable running through it.
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Ok thanks for letting me know.
I really want to buy that thing and just check it out for a while xD
 
JosPlays said:
Ok thanks for letting me know.
I really want to buy that thing and just check it out for a while xD
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If I was always getting my footage from events and going to mates to record.. I might get it, but my TV is right next to my Mac because I also dual monitor onto it when I edit.. So using a thumb drive would actually be more hassle for me :")
 
JosPlays said:
Indeed I heard that a 16GB thumbdrive is only 4 hours of footage. I do have an 500GB HDD, do you think that works on the HD PVR Rocket as well and where does the device get it's power from? :p
That was my main question. It seems it doesn't need power from an adapter, but I find it hardly to believe it doesn't need any power at all.
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"External hard disc compatibility: any self powered external storage drive with at least 2.5Mbytes/sec transfer rate" This means it might work with portable HDDs. You might want to contact them about that 1 since it's listed under Thumbdrives for some reason and a thumbdrive is not a hard disc. 32GB is not alot. I can record around 15-20gb+ in a day and that's at around 8mbps.
 
AndrewReviewYou said:
"External hard disc compatibility: any self powered external storage drive with at least 2.5Mbytes/sec transfer rate" This means it might work with portable HDDs. You might want to contact them about that 1 since it's listed under Thumbdrives for some reason and a thumbdrive is not a hard disc. 32GB is not alot. I can record around 15-20gb+ in a day and that's at around 8mbps.
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If they really do only take thumb drives then the only thing I can think of it buying 2-3 64gb drives they're like £25 each for a decent one.
 
Andrew Flint said:
If they really do only take thumb drives then the only thing I can think of it buying 2-3 64gb drives they're like £25 each for a decent one.
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Yeah I will buy a 16GB USB drive when I buy the Rocket, just to be sure. If I still use it alot half year later I will buy a few more USB drives :p

The Rocket will be available in January, so I can test it by then.
 
JosPlays said:
I do want to hear from someone else, but I prefer someone that actually used the capture device. People also said to me the Roxio I have now is crap (They never used it), but it works fine. If someone actually used it and says it's crap I believe them.
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Perhaps they confused the HD capture card with the SD one?
 
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