Elgato Game Capture HD Review

Schneider-X said:
Fine choice you made in getting the Elgato. Its an excellent piece of hardware for game capture. Just wanted to mention that the Elgato does introduce some lag due to having to convert an analog signal to a digital one. The only way to guarantee that there is no lag experienced is to have an hdmi splitter and an hdmi to component converter.
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Have you tried that? Does it still avoid hdcp if you use hdmi and then convert it to component? I really need to eliminate this capture card's lag if I want to use it to record footage from local tournaments.
 
Siegvriel said:
Have you tried that? Does it still avoid hdcp if you use hdmi and then convert it to component? I really need to eliminate this capture card's lag if I want to use it to record footage from local tournaments.
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Yes converting to component will eliminate the HDCP protection though you could also buy this HDCP stripper off of ebay and stay all digital. Try contacting the seller if they will post another listing for it.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/230870586670?_trksid=p5197.c0.m619
 
I don't know if that'll work. You aren't going to be finding something that will advertise stripping HDCP because it isn't exactly legal to do so. SRK was just lucky to find a seller for these on ebay.
 
Hey guys this has to be one of the only places I have found talking about the specific problem of the lag caused by the Elgato's conversion and how it effects Live commentary. Can you explain or even draw a diagram to help me understand what is required and in what order to resolve this issue. I purchased an HDMI splitter thinking just passing through that would resolve the problem but from reading it seems as Schneider said a component to HDMI converter too?

Can you guys advise me? I work on youtube currently and eliminating the lag for live commentary is something I badly want to do, thanks guys.
 
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