Converting your old VHS tapes to DVD can be as exciting as watching grass grow, but Kaiser Bass has just released solution that aims at making the whole process simple. The Video to DVD Maker plugs into your PC or Mac and has composite and S-Video inputs for your VHS player (or any other video source like a video camera or iPod) and uses Cyberlink video editing software (or iMovie ’08 for Mac-users) to convert the video file to a digital format that can be burnt to DVD, or encoded for watching on your iPod, PSP or uploaded to YouTube. It’s $80, which sounds like a pretty good deal for anyone with the entire collection of Walker: Texas Ranger on tape in their garage – You need to get that on DVD sooner rather than later, my friend.
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STK
Friday, November 7, 2008 at 8:47 PMavailable at dick smith for $70
Mark
Sunday, March 25, 2012 at 11:50 AMDo yourself a favor and don’t bother, Problems, getting drivers loaded, getting edit program to load, even after trying on 3 different computers I finally got the drivers and the edit software loaded and then get the picture up ready to record as soon as I hit the record button I get a split screen. This is the third occasion that I have attempted to use this piece of junk and this time it goes into the bin!!!
Paul
Sunday, November 9, 2008 at 9:57 PMI purchased one from Harvey Normans today and it works great
sugarfree
Monday, November 10, 2008 at 9:20 AMNot MAC friendly. (even thou the box says it works on mac)
Couldn’t record a PAL stream correctly (irrespective of config/software settings), wrong frames per second etc
Kaiser support couldn’t help as they didn’t have a MAC and told me to return the item to dse (which i did)
Overall, not a pleasant experience :-(
PRASAD
Saturday, January 31, 2009 at 1:33 PMThis dvd maker(kaisserbaas) is not user friendly at all. Some one Please tell me how to record on a dvd or my pc.
Matt
Saturday, February 21, 2009 at 12:35 PMThe DVD maker tells me my tapes are copyright and that recording is prohibited. They are my own home movies and definitely not copyright. Not a good purchase for me.
G8
Monday, July 19, 2010 at 9:54 PMThats ridiculous, u shouldnt have a problem because its all done by analogue, no data information sent soo no way it can tell whether its copyright protected or anything. Copyright protection doesnt exist on any analogue media (unless u include the little black tab on vhs to stop you copying over them ) , vhs and tapes because there is no actually way for the devices to tell its protected
Dean
Thursday, September 23, 2010 at 8:57 PMhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_Protection_System
Jimmy
Monday, March 2, 2009 at 6:52 PMNot Mac friendly? Tell me about it. After a week of the software running fine, all of a sudden the drop-down box with the list of compressor types ceases to work. It just sits on the one compression type. I uninstall. I reinstall. I trash preferences. I contact Kasier Baas (they didn’t have a clue!). I swap it over at DSE thinking it might be a hardware issue.
Nup. It’s still royally screwed. MONEY BACK here I come.
Daniel Allen
Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 10:11 AMI am interested in purchasing this but I wonder if there is an ongoing problem with copyright. It appears other issues regarding burning to DVd is just a matter of downloading the appropriate burner software which is freely available.
neil tamblyn
Tuesday, April 7, 2009 at 1:02 PMI have not found this device user friendly at all, once captured to my PC there it chose to stay. Not enough information to help.
George Harris
Sunday, June 14, 2009 at 3:06 PMEvery time I try to install the driver Stopzilla tells me that i have been infected by spyware and it will not allow me to continue with the installation.There is no problem with Power producer and the other.Is this spyware part of the installation disc. if so tell me how i can get rid of it and install the driver.
Frank Fallon
Monday, July 13, 2009 at 11:20 PMThe pinnacle “DAZZLE” from Harvey Norman time limits recordings with no sense from their tech support.I can not record four hour tapes with this product and tech support gives no explanation why it limits recording time.
Saphira
Saturday, October 3, 2009 at 9:08 AMI started using it last night on my iMac and was happy with the way things were running. I experimented with a small clip, imported it into Final Cut & had no problem editing. I was so excited. So I decided to import a full video. The process is slow but works. After a couple of hours a box appeared saying my start up disk was almost full so I stopped recording. When I looked at the size of the file it was 79GB!!! A full miniDV recording is under 20GB. So I moved it onto my external hard drive (1TB) and am now looking for a way to change formats without having to edit the whole thing first. Any suggestions would be great.
Shirley W
Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 12:45 AMI tried these things too and had no end of trouble and wasted time and the dvd’s were rubbish. I thought the Pinnacle Dazzle was a good idea too as I saw some comments about it, these things are so slow that I gave up and sent a carton of tapes to a crowd in Wonthaggi Victoria called avid tech and they did them in a few days, printed disks and covers plus a decent menu. Don’t know about anyone else but I don’t want all the drama and wasted time. Get a pro to do them, it is far less painfull.
Jennifer
Friday, October 9, 2009 at 2:50 PMI bought the Kaiser Bass adaptor and do not find it user-friendly at all. I went back to Dick Smith for assistance, but to no avail. What to do? Is one meant to go and purchase a seperate hard drive, transfer them all onto it, then plug the thing to the TV? Uurgh. This was meant to be easy!
thomas
Sunday, May 30, 2010 at 1:12 AMwas thinking seriously about buying the kaiser bass video to dvd maker from big w but after reading the comments about the product,i must be honest,i,m quite put off by it all.seems to be alot of people having trouble using it.i will go and have a look at it though,will keep you posted.another option is a dvd vcr recorder combo.a bit more expensive but mayby worth the extra money.
Paul
Friday, October 15, 2010 at 7:42 PM@Thomas
Good call, dude. I’m struggling to install it on Vista at the moment – my GF’s original version of KB was for XP. Needless to say the lack of reliable support for our upgrade is fricken shocking! Before you buy check out the official Kaiser Bass “how to” videos on youtube and you’ll get an idea of what a bumch of total amateurs these guys are.
don
Sunday, October 16, 2011 at 7:40 PMBought one at Dick Smith on Saturday morning. Its now Sunday evening, and havent been able to get it going. Have tried on about 8 computers inc desktops and laptops. XP,Vista,W7. Some do nothing , others give picture but no sound, others give sound but no picture. I did get one to make a recording , but there were no clear instructions on how to burn it – the instructions in the ‘help’ didnt match the screen. When i tried again it lost picture, and couldnt get it back. my new machine running w7 would not install it. I might try the help desk – but i might be wasting even more time. All my machines run dozens and dozens of other programs just fine. Its probably crap.
AnGus
Tuesday, November 29, 2011 at 12:34 AMI’ve just installed it on my Windows 7 PC and have recorded/converted my first VHS video. Worked fine, although the software is a bit pedestrian. There are a couple of youtube videos that might help with the installation. See …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb8PpM7Lns4 and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H1C8pCerhM
No success with a Linux machine yet ‘tho.
AnGus
Robert
Monday, February 6, 2012 at 4:30 PMDoes anyone know how to get the software for Kaiser TV stick, I lost my instalation disk from 2008?
Ralph
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 1:43 PMI have model KB401-1B with installation disc-Video to DVD Maker and Cyber Link Power Directory are there step by step instructions on how to use these items ?