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Welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Hage HD PVR 2. This is the gaming

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edition and now includes some pretty significant benefits over the previous

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HD PVR. So, for one thing, you've got

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zero delay HDMI pass through, which is pretty freaking awesome because

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especially if you're using it for game streaming or game commentating or

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anything like that, you can't have any kind of an extra delay or lag added by a

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device that you're using to record video because then how are you going to

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actually play properly? Okay, so instructions here are it's pretty

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straightforward. To open, pull sides. Oh, oh, oh, there we go. Then it comes

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apart a little something like this. So this looks upon initial inspection like

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a very complete package of things that are included. So let's open up the box

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itself really quick here and just have a Okay, the size is a little bit or the um

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the dimensions of it are a little bit weird. Makes it look kind of like futuristic and UFO if UFO is a word. So

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the first thing we find inside is a USB cable. This is USB A to B. There you go.

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Very, very supple cable. So, very soft. Very nice. All right. I'm just going to

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put garbage in there as we go. The next thing we find inside appears to be a

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power brick. All right. Power brick. Oh,

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no. That goes there. That goes there. Next, we've got ah component breakout.

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So, this will be handy if you do have any HD devices that are not digital. So,

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here we've got uh RGB and then stereo

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audio connectors. And then those go to a

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proprietary connector that plugs into the presumably back of the hage unit,

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although I don't see where that goes.

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No, this is for Xbox. Oh, yeah. Okay. So, they've included an Xbox connector

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which will do something supposedly. We'll be back. And it's a PS3 cable. And

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the reason I couldn't figure out what the heck it did was because there's an

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additional cable that you actually need to do anything with it. So, this is also

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an RGB and stereo audio cable that actually does plug into this. So, if you

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did need to go from PS3 out to component

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for whatever reason, then you could do this to go into there we go the HDPVR

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and then you can go out via HDMI.

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So yeah, then we've got two more HDMI

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cables as well as their uh their

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software that's included. So you should download the latest off of the Hage website. And I'm just going to clean

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things up a little bit and we will be back in a moment to show you the unit itself. Hage actually includes some

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notes that we should probably talk about very briefly. So because PS3 does not

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allow recording over the HDMI output, you have to use the component. That's

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why it has these adapters. You have to use component out to record from PS3.

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However, it should be noted that this connector with the current firmware

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might be a little bit sensitive to vibration. So, just put the PVR to

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somewhere where it's not going to be sort of knocked around. I mean, that that should be common sense anyway. They

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say they got a lot of calls about it. Come on. But come on, guys. You don't bump an analog connection while it's

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connected and then expect it to work 100%. So, just Yeah, just plain don't do

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that. Um, also make sure you put it in the right way. They says they got a lot

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of calls about that. I don't know why because it was pretty obvious to me that

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it doesn't go in this way. So, you turn it around and there you go. It's plugged

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in. Push down. Get it? The push is down

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when you push push down. Don't worry about it. Uh if you're using with an ATI

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graphics card, AMD Radeon graphics card, then you might have issues with um the

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latest drivers. So, just turn off hardware acceleration. These are their

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tips and tricks. It's nice of them to include that on a little, you know, piece of paper that they pack at the

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last minute. make sure that some of these frequently asked questions are

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addressed before people have to, you know, pick up a phone and talk to a

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human being and figure out how to use the product because I don't want to like

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bother with that when I buy something new. I want it to just work. So, the top

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of the unit has a gorgeous brushed aluminum finish. It looks like actual

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aluminum. Yep, it is. So, make sure you don't touch it too much or leave

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fingerprint stains on it because it'll look pretty sweet as long as you don't

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do that. Power button is here on the top. And then it's got sort of a a gray

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trim that goes around the entire outside of it. The bottom is full of ventilation

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holes. So there's a heat sink right there that you can clearly see through the perforations. I hope you can see it.

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I can see it. So I'll you'll have to take my word for it. Trust me, it's there. And then the ventilation goes in

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the bottom and out the back. It looks like it doesn't need a ton of cooling

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though because these feet are quite low profile. So once you put this down,

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there's not going to be room for a ton of air flow to be coming in and out of

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the unit. So, I wouldn't put this on top of something like an AV receiver, for

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example. I'd want to put it on something that doesn't uh exhaust heat because you

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don't want to be using what are cooling holes to heat the unit up. Just

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something to think about. Um, so in terms of setup, it's pretty

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straightforward. There's a number of different ways you can hook it up, and they actually have diagrams in the uh in

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the included quick start guide that make it pretty simple, but here's your power

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in 6volt DC in. You have a USB connector

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to go out to a PC, laptop, or desktop. There's that that component in that uses

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this sort of weird harness to connect to it. I would have preferred if they just

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had uh I guess yeah, it would take up a lot of space on the back to have fable

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component connectors, but okay. HDMI in, HDMI out. So, that can be used for

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recording a PC, for recording an Xbox 360, or anything else that isn't HDCP

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protected. That's why they have to go with that analog signal for the

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PlayStation 3. So, we'll have a look at some of the different ways you can hook

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it up. So, here's with a PlayStation 3, you're using that weird component in

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thing. USB out to a computer and then HDMI, HDMI out to a TV. So, this is for

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streaming. And then next we've got so game console here, I guess. Okay. Not

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sure what their point is here. So, let's go with this one. Xbox 360 HDMI in, HDMI

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out, USB out to a laptop or desktop PC, and then out to a TV. So the idea is

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that the HDMI is a lag free pass through and then USB is where you're actually

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recording so that you can upload to something like

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um to something like YouTube or you can stream using XSplit or whatever else the

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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

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game streaming and game commentary where people are doing sort of like a webcam

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view of themselves. They're sitting there playing a game. They're talking about it while they play or I mean a lot

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of these guys are basically just vloggers. So they're playing a video game but they're actually talking about

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something totally unrelated just so you have something to watch and something to

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listen to at the same time and they're not actually necessarily the same thing

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as each other. So what is this for? It's for if you don't want to hook up an

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entire separate computer with a dedicated capture card in order to do

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like a like we had uh we had a setup we did before with the uh Aver Media Live

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Gamer HD where we actually had a computer that was set up to do the

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capture and streaming. So this is if you just want to run a little box like this

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to uh hook that up instead of running it through a computer directly. So thank

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and other computer videos. I was asked, what's the point of this if uh you have

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to have a PC anyway compared to having like a dedicated PCI Express capture

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card? Well, the point is you can use a laptop because it's using H.264 encoding

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and it does have a hardware encoder inside here. It means that just using

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that USB 2 connection, it can stream as much data as it needs to in order to

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record a high quality 1080p 30fps video

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that you can then do whatever you want with after the fact. It should also be

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noted that I actually made a mistake when I was unboxing this. This is the record button so that you can press

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record and be sort of ready at a moment's notice to record or not record

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something, not a power button, which it's just sort of on all the time once

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it's plugged in.