Gamebridge AVC-1400 USB 2.0 Cnct Xbox PS2 To Pc Xp SP2 2K SP4

Product Description

Only Adaptec gamebridge lets you connect your PS2, Xbox, Xbox 360 and GameCube game consoles to your PC or notebook, and play games in real time all through your computer. Now, you're free from the TV and can record and share your best moves, favorite moments, and highest scores. No one else offers you this much gaming flexibility and mobility.With gamebridge there's no lag time. Click the controller and the fast response gets you out of the tightest spots. You'll even see things more clearly, since your computer monitor provides better graphical resolution than a standard TV.Use the handy on-screen control panel to record videos of your best maneuvers or take snapshots of your best score or level. Save them to your hard disk drive or VCD and always have a library of your best performances and favorite movies.gamebridge snapshots and recordings make it simple to show your friends how you moved to the next level, share high scores, and prove your prowess. Replay them any time.gamebridge includes everything you need, even cables. One cable plugs easily into your computer's USB2.0 port, while a color-coded 4-in-1 cable provides a simple connection to your game console. The credit-card-sized gamebridge unit and all its cables fit into the included carrying case, so you can easily take them everywhere you want to play.Convert your VHS videos and create long lasting VCD archives of your precious moments.For a complete compatibility list please refer to the original manufacturer's web site.

I bought this about a year ago...it works good, a little lag, but not bad at all.

I bought mine for 5$

and now their 100$!!!! what the hell??


hmm..i think im gonna sell mine XD


Unless you use a TV tuner of something of the sort, the Gamebridge is the perfect solution. By connecting the r/y/w cables to your TV and the USB to your computer, you can easily record video from your TV to your PC. You can even use it to record your favorite shows and watch it on your PC.

There is a few gripes I had about it though...

First of all, by setting it up, unless you have a Video/Audio IN/OUT via your TV or other means, the only way you'll be able to both see and record is only on your PC. By all means, the PC screen isn't very good to look at while recording. (especially if you're playing something)

If you use the IN/OUT connectors on your TV, however, you can simultaneously play on your TV and record on your PC.

Another one would be that since it only uses R/B/Y cables, you won't be getting hi-def from newer televisions.

Lastly, the video screen size changes depending on the quality you use. High quality tends to make the screen really small, however, if you were to use this for say... YouTube videos, it would look great.

All and all, I recommend this.


I purchased this product in order to play ps2 on my computer. My current LCD tv is almost always used by my wife to watch various tv shows... This device allows me to game anytime I want from the comfort of my pc. Please note that older machines will have delay in the audio, the more CPU you use, the worse it works. I tried this on my single core 3.2 intel pentium 4 and had some major audio slowdown. However on my quad core machine it works like a charm.


So, I bought mine about a year and a half ago, but I bought mine for about 15 bucks, right here on Amazon.com. They were having a deal that I could NOT believe! But as far as the GameBridge goes, it came with the CD and I was able to use it on my laptop no problem. I recently installed it on my PC as well that's running on Vista, and if you type into Google about using it on Vista, you can find a bunch of forums that show how to install it, and I have no problems whatsoever. The only slight problem which I easily fixed by getting a Y adapter to go from the red and white audio to a headphone connector, and then bought a little golden cylinder that takes in a headphone connector on either side just so I could connect the red and white audio connectors from my PS2 into some speakers, because if you use the GameBridge to connect your audio, I found a slight lag in it and that got annoying. But otherwise, great!

As for the cylinder thing, I don't remember what it's called, but it's a cylinder that has a female 2.5mm headphone connection on either side, so you can connect the Y-Adapter to a pair of speakers and listen from the speakers, or to a set of headphones and listen like that. Hope this helps!


Gamebridge is a great tool. Quality is excellent(depending on what type of computer you use) and it's simple to use. The only thing is that i feel bad for people who are buying it now. [...]


If you must use your computer as a tv, the gamebridge will fulfill your needs. However, the software package that ships with it (InterVideo Home Theatre) is terrible, and you may need to turn to a third party solution - I wasn't even able to get InterVideo Home Theatre to run. There is no troubleshooting documentation and Adaptec's support for the product is non-existant.

I eventually ditched the InterVideo program and used Dscaler to display the video stream from the gamebridge. This worked rather well, though it requires a lot of processor power to de-interlace the video stream. Unless you have a very fast computer, you'll have to settle for a reduction in image quality or suffer many dropped frames. After picking a de-interlacing algorithm appropriate for my processor's power, there was only the occasional stutter or rendering artifact.

In summary, using the gamebridge with a laptop won't be as good as a TV, but is entirely adequate if a TV isn't available. However, if you use a monitor that is detached from your PC, try a vga converter instead.


Perfect device, just what i needed, Wonderful, im really glad i purchased this item. Thank you!


To be frank, the sound wobbles sometimes and chops others. It's quite annoying. The video lag was nearly unnoticeable, but if you're trying to play guitar hero or anything, it made that difficult without lots of calibration.

Still, for other things I'd say this works okay. HD imput would have been nice but for the price you get what you pay for.


I've been wanting to get a PlayStation 2 for some time now... but having a lack of money has been a problem.

Recently, I was able to finally afford to buy one, but since I don't own a TV, I needed to either wait until I could also afford that, or I needed to find a way to hook the PS2 up to my computer monitor.

Enter the GameBridge by Adaptec. This handy little box of hardware allows you to take your PS2, or any other gaming console with standard RCA audio/video outputs, or anything that uses S-Video as well, and plug it into your computer via a USB port. I thought to myself, "that sounds perfect!", and given the price of only $20.00 I thought I'd give it a try before spending $100.00 or more on a TV tuner that I could plug into my monitor via VGA or DVI connection.

The GameBridge does what it's supposed to do. It allows you to successfully hook up your console system to your computer through a USB 2.0 connection. After that, it relies on the InterVideo Home Theater software (included) to interface with the audio/video signals coming in from the GameBridge (I assume it handles this much as a streaming multimedia file). So basically, the GameBridge takes the TV audio/video signals from the console and converts them into steaming multimedia. The Home Theater software then allows you to view, listen to, and record that streaming media.

Now all that is GREAT! Unfortunately, here's where the problems come up. Firstly, as others have noted, there is low-quality graphics. This is due to the fact that standard TV signals are in either 800x600 or 640x480 resolution (I forget which) and most peoples' computers run at higher desktop resolutions than that these days (1280x960 and 1280x1024 are the most common standards of today). So when you make the Home Theater interface go full-screen, you are blowing up an 800x600 (or smaller) image to something much larger than that, and this causes a decrease in image quality.

You could theoretically reduce this by setting the PS2 up to broadcast in HDTV mode, which increases the resolution to 1080x810 (I think. This is about a 35% increase), unfortunately, the GameBridge cannot handle or convert HDTV signals from the console, so this isn't an option. We are therefore left with three choices... 1) leave things as they are and simply accept the lowered image quality, 2) get a different piece of hardware, such as a TV tuner that you can plug straight into your monitor and that is capable of utilizing and converting HDTV signals (this could improve image quality somewhat), or 3) reduce your desktop screen resolution to around 800x600 everytime you are going to be using the gaming consolse, and then switch it back again for normal computer useage (I actually cannot lower mine any smaller than 800x600 because of hardware and driver limitations).

But the problems the GameBridge has don't end there. As some of the previous reviewers have mentioned, there is an audio delay of roughly 1-3 seconds. Now, Shaun Oberlin did a review in which this problem was addressed and a website address was provided that leads to a forum message. In that forum message are instructions for how to supposedly correct this audio lag problem. Those instructions do not work, so don't bother to try them! Using those instructions, and taking them a step further, I disabled ALL of my audio and video software, drivers, and codecs, and then systematically restarted them until I found that only two are necessary for use with the GameBridge and the InterVideo Home Theater software. I disabled all others except for those two and found that while the audio lag disappears at first, it slowly returns and worsens over time as you use the console. This cannot be changed.

I did, find a suitable workaround for the audio lag problem though. I went out to RadioShack and baught a simple and inexpensive adapter (http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2103710&cp). This allows me to take the RCA Phono audio cables (the red and white ones) and convert them into standard 1/8" Stereo MiniJack and plug it into the "Line In" connection on my sound card. Now, I have the yellow, video connector connected to the GameBridge and running through USB and InterVideo Home Theater, and the red and white audio connectors are now running directly into my sound card. Because the audio signals are now handled directly by my sound card, there is absolutely NO noticeable audio lag.

This leads into a third, and very minor issue. Once I started using the audio adapter from RadioShack, and thus had no audio lag, I did notice that the GameBridge has a very slight graphical lag as well... roughly 0.25-0.5 seconds worth. Now, this really shouldn't have any adverse affects on anyone's performance in playing games... I don't even notice it during high-speed races in Gran Turismo 4, but it is something that could use improvement (although such improvement may not be technologically possible at this time).

So in summary, the GameBridge, together with the audio adapter from RadioShack (similar adapters should be available at other electronics stores as well, such as BestBuy), and a sound card that can accept 1/8" Stereo MiniJack Line In connections, will allow anyone to play their console through their computer rather than through a TV. And if you already own a computer, this is a much less expensive path than buying a TV or buying a full TV tuner for your computer monitor (such as those here at Amazon.com). You'll have to deal with low image quality, but that really cannot be helped because of the technologies being used... this is a limitation of the consoles. There are, however, three areas in which the GameBridge can use improvement... First, they could be redesigned to allow for HDTV signals from the consoles to be interpreted and converted properly to help improve image quality. Secondly, they could use their own software to interface between the GameBridge and the computer, rather than the InterVideo Home Theater software. This could give them the opportunity to create a software package that would automatically change the screen resolution that the program runs under so that people don't have to manually change their screen resolutions every time they want to play with reasonable image quality (this is the way most games made for the PC handle it if the game's resolution is lower than the desktop resolution being used on the computer). And lastly, they could either improve the way the system handles audio signals in order to eliminate the audio lag, or they could include an adapter such as the one that I'm now using.

So in short, I give this little item 3 stars. It works, but it only works well if you couple it with other items and make some adjustments. It does roughly what it's supposed to do, and does it cheaply, but it definitely needs some improvement.


Can anyone tell me if this can work with macs? or does HAVE to be a PC or notebook?

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About Gamebridge AVC-1400 USB 2.0 Cnct Xbox PS2 To Pc Xp SP2 2K SP4 detail

• Brand: Adaptec
• Model: 2179900
• Dimensions: 4.00 pounds

Features

• Play Games in Real Time - With GameBridge there is no lag time. Click the controller and the fast response gets you out of the tightest spots with the enhanced graphical resolution of your computer monitor.
• Record Your Best Moves and Highest Scores - Record videos of great maneuvers or take snapshots of high scores or levels, and save them to your hard disk drive or CDs.
• Share Your Favorite Moments - Prove your prowess by sharing snapshots and recordings with friends, and replaying them any time.
• Play Anywhere - GameBridge includes everything you need. One cable plugs easily into your computer's USB2.0 port, and a color-coded 4-in-1 cable connects to your game console. Everything fits in the included carrying case to easily go everywhere you want to playConvert Home Videos to VCDConvert your VHS videos and create long lasting VCD archives of your precious moments.

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