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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the apostate DP VR tube this is the gaming edition and now includes some pretty significant benefits over the previous HD PVR so for one thing you've got zero delay HDMI pass-through which is pretty freakin awesome because especially if you're using it for game streaming or game commentating or anything like that you can't have any kind of an extra delay or leg added by a device that you're using to record video because then how are you going to actually play properly okay so instructions here it's pretty straightforward to open pull sides nope oh there we go then it comes apart a little something like this so this looks upon initial inspection like a very complete package of things that are included so let's open up the box itself really quick here and just have it okay the size is a little bit or the dimensions are a little bit weird makes it look kind of like futuristic and UFO II if you fo E is a word so the first thing we find inside is a USB cable this is USB a to be there you go very very supple cable so very soft very nice alright I'm just gonna put garbage in there as we go the next thing we find inside appears to be a power brick alright power brick nope nope that goes there that goes there next we've got a component breakout so this will be handy if you do have any HD devices that are not digital so here we've got RGB and then stereo audio connectors and then those go to a proprietary connector that plugs into the presumably back of the Hapuna t' although i don't see where that goes no this is for Xbox oh yeah okay so they've included an Xbox connector which will do something supposedly will be back and it's a ps3 cable and the reason I couldn't figure out what the heck it did was because there's an additional cable that you actually need to do anything with it so this is also an RGB and stereo audio cable that actually does plug into this so if you did need to go from ps3 out to component for whatever reason then you could do this to go into there we go the HD PVR and then you can go out via HDMI so yeah then we've got two more HDMI cables as well as their their software that's included so you should download the latest off of the apology website and I'm just going to clean things up a little bit and we will be back in a moment to show you the unit itself a pause actually includes some notes that we should probably talk about very briefly so because ps3 does not allow recording over the HDMI output you have to use the component that's why it has these adapters you have to use component out to record from ps3 however it should be noted that this connector with the current firmware might be a little bit sensitive to vibrations so just put the PVR to somewhere where it's not going to be sort of knocked around I mean that that should be common sense anyway they say they got a lot of calls about it come on but come on guys you don't bump an analogue connection while it's connected and then expect it to work a hundred percent so just yeah just plain don't do that also make sure you put it in the right way they say says they got a lot of calls about that I don't know why because it was pretty obvious to me that it doesn't go in this way so you turn it around and there you go it's plugged in push down get it the pushes down when you push push down don't worry about it if you're using with an ATI graphics card Andy Radeon graphics card then you might have issues with the latest drivers so just turn off hardware acceleration these are their tips and tricks that's nice of them to include that on a little you know piece of paper that they pack at the last minute make sure that some of these frequently asked questions are addressed before people have to you know pick up a phone and talk to a human being and figure out how to use the product because I don't want to like bother with that when I buy something new I want it to just work so the top of the unit has a gorgeous brushed aluminum finish it looks like actual aluminum yep it is so make sure you don't touch it too much or leave fingerprint stains on it because it'll look pretty sweet as long as you don't do that power button is here on the top and then it's got sort of a great rim that goes around the entire outside of it the bottom is full of ventilation holes so there's a heat sink right there that you can clearly see through the perforations I hope you can see it I can see it so I'll have to take my word for it trust me it's there and then the ventilation goes in the bottom and out the back it looks like it doesn't need a ton of cooling though because these feet are quite low profile so once you put this down there's not going to be room for a ton of airflow to be coming in and out of the unit so I wouldn't put this on top of something like an AV receiver for example I'd want to put it on something that doesn't exhaust heat because you don't want to be using what are cooling holes to heat the unit up just something to think about so in terms of setup it's pretty straightforward there's a number of different ways you can hook it up and they actually have diagrams in the in the included QuickStart guide that make it pretty simple but here's your power in six volts DC in you have a USB connector to go out to a PC laptop or desktop there's that component in that uses this sort of weird harness to connect to it I would have preferred if they just had I guess yeah it would take up a lot of space on the back to have all the component connectors but okay HDMI IN HDMI out so that can be used for recording a PC for recording an Xbox 360 or anything else that isn't HDCP protected that's why they have to go with that analog signal from the PlayStation 3 so we'll have a look at some of the different ways you can hook it up so here's what the PlayStation 3 you're using that weird component in thing USB out to a computer and then HDMI HDMI out to a TV so this is for streaming and then next we've got so game console here I guess ok not sure what their point is here so let's go with this one Xbox 360 HDMI IN HDMI out USB out to a laptop or desktop PC and then out to a TV so the idea is that the HDMI is a leg free pass through and then USB is where you're actually recording so that you can upload to something like - something like YouTube or you can stream using xsplit or whatever else the case may be I don't know if you guys are I don't know if you guys know this but there is a huge thing going on with game streaming and game commentary where people are doing sort of like a webcam view selves they're sitting there playing a game they're talking about it while they play or I mean a lot of these guys are basically just vloggers so they're playing a video game but they're actually talking about something totally unrelated just so you have something to watch and something to listen to at the same time and they're not actually necessarily the same thing as each other so what is this for it's for if you don't want to hook up an entire separate computer with a dedicated capture card in order to do like a cot like we had we had a setup we did before with the AVerMedia live gamer HD where we actually had a computer that was set up to do the capture and streaming so this is if you just want to run a little box like this to hook that up instead of running it through a computer directly so thank you for checking out this unboxing online as tech tips don't forget to subscribe for more buck scenes reviews and other computer videos I was asked what's the point of this if you have to have a PC anyway and compared to having like a dedicated PCI Express capture card well the point is you can use a laptop because it's using h.264 encoding and it does have a hardware encoder inside here it means that just using that USB to connection it can stream as much data as it needs to in order to record a high quality 1080p 30fps video that you can then do whatever you want with after the fact it should also be noted that I actually made a mistake when I was unboxing this this is the record button so that you can press record and be sort of ready at a moment's notice to record or not record something not a power button which it's just sort of on all the time once it's plugged in