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> you can get cheap china-knockoffs for about £12, I don't know how good they are. They are so-so. Well, they are much-much better than any webcam, of course,
by piranha 6y ago
> you can get cheap china-knockoffs for about £12, I don't know how good they are.
They are so-so. Well, they are much-much better than any webcam, of course, but 1080p is almost the same as 720p on them. So as a budget thingie it'll work, but Elgato's adapter is much better, of course.
- coldtea 6y ago>So as a budget thingie it'll work, but Elgato's adapter is much better, of course. I saw a video where Elgato Camlink opened up, is just a chinese card repackaged with the Elgato logo, 99% similar internally to the cheap knockoffs. Can't find it again to link it to...
- rasz 6y agohttps://wiki.apertus.org/index.php/Elgato_CAM_LINK_4K https://wiki.apertus.org/index.php/Elgato_CAM_LINK_4K 8 layer pcb with custom fpga hardware, doesnt look all that cheap chinese knockoff to me
- coldtea 6y agoYou're right, I watched this youtube video on an expensive brand name item vs several chinese knockoffs and they had the same internals -- but it probably wasn't the Camlink then. Can't find the video atm, or remember what product it did show, but it was posted in the last 2-3 months and it concerned a similarly on-demand item -- and the "repackaging" brand was respected by creators...
- Tepix 6y agoIt's converting a digital signal (HDMI) to another digital signal. Why should there be any quality loss even if it's a cheap chinese model?
- piranha 6y agoWell, because they don’t have enough processing power I guess? IDK, it’s hot all the time and image quality is lower than what I can get from a camera SD card.