- #SETTING UP ELGATO HD60 HOW TO#
- #SETTING UP ELGATO HD60 SOFTWARE#
- #SETTING UP ELGATO HD60 TV#
- #SETTING UP ELGATO HD60 DOWNLOAD#
It’s hard to imagine something so small can provide such a range of gameplay sharing and streaming options, but there you have it.
#SETTING UP ELGATO HD60 TV#
The unit itself is extremely small- it weights nothing, and is lighter than most TV remote controls. It’s a small, unobtrusive unit, it works incredibly well and exactly as you’d expect it to, there’s absolutely no fuss, and you don’t have to muck around with anything- as long as you have at least some idea of what you are doing, you just pull it out, plug it in, and it goes. On the whole, this focus on staying out of the way serves the HD60 well.
#SETTING UP ELGATO HD60 HOW TO#
They assume that if you are buying this, you have to be an enthusiast, and an enthusiast knows how to do a fair bit. They assume a little bit of pre-knowledge on your part.
#SETTING UP ELGATO HD60 DOWNLOAD#
It’s pretty obvious, the makers of the HD60 expect you to go online and track down the software, and download it yourself.
#SETTING UP ELGATO HD60 SOFTWARE#
To an extent, that may stand true, but trivial matters such as finding and downloading the companion software for the capture card, that are instrumental in actually using the thing, are not included, nor does the unit initiate an automatic download on your computer when it is plugged in. If you’re a first time user (of dedicated capture equipment in general), then it might be a little baffling, and just a little daunting: what exactly are you supposed to do with this thing?īut see, even though the emphasis on the simplicity of packaging is almost Apple-like in nature, the statement that Elgato is making here is the exact opposite: this isn’t aimed at the casual user with a simplicity so obvious you don’t need any documentation to help you out. This means that there is no documentation included, beyond a little diagram illustrating what each port on the unit does. And that the packaging is exceedingly elegant and simple, with just the capture equipment, and nothing else. There are two things you realize when you first open up the Elgato Game Capture HD60 box- that the packaging is exceedingly elegant and simple, with just the capture equipment, and nothing else. "If you're a first time user (of dedicated capture equipment in general), then it might be a little baffling, and just a little daunting: what exactly are you supposed to do with this thing?" The packaging is small, simple, and to the point- a portend of the actual unit itself. The obvious question here isn’t if it’s good – we’ll get to that in a minute, but the long and short of it is that it is, it’s very good – the question here is, who exactly is this made for? And is it good enough for them? Into a market like this, Elgato has released its newest game capture equipment, the Elgato Game Capture HD60. Are these smartphones and tablets as good at playing games on the move as dedicated handhelds? No, but it hardly matters, does it? The average person is content playing Temple Run on his iPad. Handheld game consoles have also found their existence questioned by non dedicated mobile game players (namely smartphones and tablets). In a sense, it’s like the classic handheld game system conundrum.
Oh, don’t get me wrong, for the enthusiast who’s really into capturing game assets and/or livestreaming, the features on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One barely suffice, and dedicated capture equipment is almost a necessity, but for most people? It’s an anachronism: why spend $200 on a capture card for my console when it does most of that stuff just as well right out of the box? The advent of the newer consoles, which have video sharing features such as saving gameplay clips or real time livestreaming over Twitch or uStream, as well as screenshot capabilities, built right into them, has rendered dedicated capture cards a little obsolete, at least as far as the average end user is concerned. It’s gotta be rough trying to sell dedicated game capture equipment these days.