Let's Playing. What's gone on?

Hello guy's I'm sorry you didn't get to see this last night but for some reason the upload took and hour and a half and stopped me accessing all other websites so I was unable to get the site address or this actual post up. So I do apologize for that.


Essentially the reason I've not released another video in so long is because after I set up my Mac I didn't have any way to let's play,

So the plan was to get a video capture card and use my consoles to bring you all joy and happiness. I mean how hard could it be to get hold of a video capture card for a mac...?




As it turned out Extremely hard, bordering on the impossible.


My Quest started out with a long search, this went on for nearly 5 months, maybe more I kinda lost count, It got interrupted by university projects and many other niggling tasks. It wasn't until the summer holiday started that I actually found what I was looking for. Amazon dot co dot uk!

It was here that the Pinnacle video capture for mac was discovered. One of the only Video capture card for mac on the market there where a load of video's on Youtube of how it worked and it was fairly affordable. (£48.99, something like that)

So I ordered one as well as a few other bits that I would need. The bits came first no pressure no problems there...

And then the wait began, for around two months I heard nothing of the capture card I ordered. Zero, zilch, nothing.


Then one day I received a email and my heart soured. Only to find the product had been canceled, as in production stops immediately. I got my money back, but wasn't given any more information on where to get a product quite like it.


My rage was quickly sumounted and I contineued the search my next stop was ebay. A website which I despise but could serve its uses for now. And after one quick search there it was! The only result on the page. The very product I'd been looking for and lo and behold no one had bid on it. the starting bid was £50.

I immediately signed up for a paypal account and a ebay account and made the first bid of £50.00 then I waited and watched.

It came down to the last few minuets where the ass-holeish practice of last minuet biding happened. He made his bid and I waited till the last 5 seconds to post mine...!




Then the fucking website logged me out and didn't log my bid...




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Anyone who follows me on twitter pretty much know what happened next. You can find me there as Arashiofordo3 or Alexander Burnett.



I suppose this whole thing wouldn't be such a problem if Pinnacle hadn't dropped their ENTIRE VIDEO CAPTURE CARD CATALOG FOR ONE REALLY EXPENSIVE PRODUCT!!!!!

The only capture card they now sell is a hybrid of mac and pc capture cards which comes with all these features that I do want or care about. The best part is this new product costs £250.00.

Pinnacle is my new nemesis!


Thwarted in my latest attempt I turned to eyeTV a run of products which work as both capture cards and live streaming (TV to mac) Problem is they all cost around £100 pounds or more. Nearly double what I was trying to pay for the products I had found already.

This now means that rather then ending my long term hiatus I'm having to save up all over again to afford something which is completely unnecessary it terms of the features it can do.


And my friends wonder why I can be extremely cynical some of the time.


~ Arashi