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Great product for the most part .. does what it is suppose to do. I had some problems with the windows 7 driver though... It said it didn't recognise my device... but I downloaded the correct drivers from the Ionaudio website.
I first uninstalled the program again then followed the instructions on the above link and only THEN I installed the ion program and voila! It worked perfectly and the first thing I recorded was brilliant, sound was ok and video quality was better than I expected. Oh! And I had to go into settings and adjust it to PAL as it came out black and white.
IMPORTANT:
I did however discover that the software is powered by ArcSoft which installs a program on your computer that loads when you boot up and constantly phones home and has absolutely nothing to do with the use of the product. After making a firewall rule to keep it from phoning home I noticed considerable slowdown of my internet connection. The cause was ArcSoft trying to phone home every 2-10 seconds (no exaggeration). I tried unsuccessfully to contact ArcSoft about this but can't. So when I booted up my computer I had to go into Processes and manually stop the 2 ArcSoft processes (You'll see that they are from arcsoft in the description). This little phone home program is not listed in Add/Delete software either. I finally discovered where it was and deleted the files. You can find it here:
Program Files\Common Files\ArcSoft\Connection Service\Bin
Just delete the executables (under Type it would say application windows 7 by default don't show .exe extensions).
Apart from the arcsoft software and me now knowing what their software 'phones home' about I think this is a brilliant little device and I'd definitely recommend it.
9 July 2013:
I was made aware that they removed the link to the drivers, here's to get them:
Just go to the Ionaudio website, go to support > documents and drivers
Then just use the drop down menu and choose video to pc or video to pc mk2 and choose your operating system.
It seems like they've already added Windows 8 drivers as well.
I hope this helps.
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