We have a whole load of mini-VHS tapes spanning almost 30 years and wanted to preserve the recordings. Saw this on Amazon, very good price, bought it. Very easy to set up and connect, in conjunction with adaptor so tapes can play in a standard VHS player (the old video camera has expired) and a SCART to AV adaptor for the connector on my video player which only has SCART connections. It just works. You have, of course, to check the durations of the recording on the tape before you start so you can switch things off at the right time and it's a bit time consuming, but all of our 50 or so tapes were converted in small batches over a 2 week period. Quality of the digital files is of course only as good as the quality of the original recording. Things to watch out for? Only one that I found, you have to re-tick the sound recording box at the start of every session. If you don't, the video records with no sound. The software supplied worked fine on my Windows 7 laptop (drivers were found and installed automatically) and I have copied files to DVD no problem. The files produced have also been transferred via USB memory stick to Vista and XP users. I've also tested the device to record from my SKY+ box, and that works too although I had to change the picture aspect on the SKY box. Highly recommended.