Diamond Multimedia VC500 One Touch VHS to Digital Converter
Here is a closer look at Diamond Multimedia VC500 One Touch VHS to Digital Converter.
About
A pigtail-style composite/S-Video dongle with official Windows 11 and Mac driver support — the community has traced two distinct hardware revisions under this same model number: a black-chassis unit built on a Conexant CX23102 decoder (preferred for retro luma decoding) and a white "VC500MAC" variant using an Empia EM28xx bridge with a Trident SAA7113H decoder, with noticeably different comb-filter artifacting on scanline-heavy sources.
- Max resolution
- 720x480@30Hz
- Requires DisplayLink driver
- No
Ports: 1× Video Compuesto RCA (entrada), 1× S-Video (entrada) and 1× USB (USB 2.0, salida al host, sin passthrough)
Confirmed with
- Notebook (generic)
Confirmed working reliably on a laptop running Windows 7. A separate, more recent report on a new HP laptop with Windows 10 documents Power Director failing to detect the device — reliability appears strongly tied to how old the host OS is, with modern Windows 10/11 laptops needing an external TBC stabilizer to work consistently.