Pinnacle Studio DC10+

A painful history of bad support.

I bought this video capturer card with the idea of passing my VHS to digital. It was highly recommended by the specialized magazines. I get it a couple of months before the release of Windows XP. Pinnacle said that the will give support to Windows XP and that this card will work on XP. False.

First you had to buy their new software Studio 7 because the drivers only worked with their program. Luckily I tried the demo before buying. Not only I couldn't use other program different from Studio 7, the quality of the captures was lower than on Windows 98. The later versions, 8 and 9, improve this thing a little, but using Windows 98 is recommended. It wasn't until this year, after nearly five years, that I can use my card in Windows XP properly.

Someone developed a bunch of drivers that works just I wanted them to work. Here I put the drivers for all of you, because I can't find the page where I took them from.

drivers dc10dc30dc30plus.zip

Remember that these drivers are given as is, without guaranties, and nothing at all. So be careful, make backup before trying them.