AVerMedia Announces the Gaming Video Competition

Taipei, Taiwan—May 8, 2012

AVerMedia Technologies, Inc. today announced the exciting gaming video competition to celebrate the debut of Live Gamer HD, the gorgeous video capture card with hardware compression capability. This “Show Your Gameplay & Win a Live Gamer HD” contest starts at May 14, 2012. The winners will be granted a Live Gamer HD or a Game Broadcaster HD, both the latest products designed for gamers to record and share gaming footages.

AVerMedia Game Broadcaster HD Review

With online streaming becoming more popular over the past few years. Along with places like YouTube and Twitch.tv giving gamers the opportunity to earn money, finding a good capture card is essential to live streamers and video content providers. I recently purchased an AverMedia Game Broadcaster HD capture card. This is an internal capture card which needs to be installed within a desktop computer to use. If you own a desktop, I recommend you look into purchasing one of these for yourself.

Buy Now: Game Broadcaster HD

System requirements for AverMedia Game Broadcaster HD

• For SD Video Capturing (MPEG-2 Format)
• Intel® Coreâ„¢ 2 Duo Processor E4300 1.8GGHz
• AMD Athlonâ„¢ 64×2 Dual Core 2.0GHz

• For HD Video Real-time Capturing (MPEG-2 Format)
• Intel® Core2 Duo 2.4GHz
• AMD Athlonâ„¢ 64×2 Dual Core 2.8GHz

• For HD Video Real-time Capturing (H.264 Format)
• Intel® Coreâ„¢ i5 750 or AMD equivalent

• VGA card with support for DirectX 9.0c or above*
• 512 MB RAM**
• PCI-E Slot
• Sound Card
• Windows® 7/ Vistaâ„¢/ XP (32/64-Bit)

* Standalone graphics card is recommended for HD video capturing.
** 2GB RAM is recommended for HD video capturing.

Ratings:

Price – 3.5/5
Installation- 4.5/5
Video/Recording Quality- 5/5
Ease of use- 5/5
Overall: 4.5/5

Price:

The current price for the Game Broadcaster is $149.99. Although the price is a little expensive for some, it will eventually pay itself off in the end. Can you imagine if you are using this daily in order to stream games, or make videos that can potentially help you earn money? Wouldn’t you want to invest your money towards a great product? Even if it’s just for fun, investing in something that will last for years is worth it alone.  I’m rating the AverMedia Game Broadcaster price at 3.5/5 because I know it is a little steep for some starting out. But when you look at the quality, it is worth the extra money spent.

Installation:

Installation is really very simple; you need to have a PCI-E slot available to be used, and possible some extra tools to take apart your CPU. Once you do this, just plug it into the PCI-E Slot, close up everything again, and power up your computer. In the box you will find a small set of instructions, a CD with drivers, and some broadcasting software. The CD is easy to navigate and install, though the only thing I disliked about this is that the install instructions are a little vague for setup with a console, I only saw one picture, with no explanation. The full manual is online and makes it clearer than the packaged instructions. I gave the installation rating a 4.5/5 because the manual did make it a bit confusing until I found the full edition online.

Video/Recording Quality:

The biggest thing with capturing or streaming video the quality of the picture. Crisp video and pristine sound are really essential in having a good setup. If there is static or the video is grainy, it takes away from the viewer’s experience. I was very impressed by this and happy to see that it was so clear myself.  You can record in both HD and SD, look at the site listed at the top of the article for the system requirements for both of these options. I gave the video/recording a 5/5 rating because the quality of the recorded video is good, and doesn’t have a grainy texture. Below is an unedited clip from a recent match of Gears of War I was in to show you the video and sound quality.

Ease of Use

Once installed, there isn’t much else you need to do minus getting your recording/streaming software fired up and ready to go. As stated above, there is some software that comes with it and it’s really easy to use.  Then it’s just a push of a button and you are all set to go. I gave it a 5/5 rating for the sake of when it comes to ease and use, it really is that simple.

Comments

gearscon 12-05-2012, 18:33

Good review!

Dan 12-05-2012, 18:35

This looks like a pretty good capture card.