A) My memory isn't very good.
B) As a counter to A, I don't delete emails - or much of anything, for that matter.
C) I forgot a lot of what the problem was with the Magewell, but it turns out, I was pretty thorough with my complaints at the time.
I just did a search in my email to see when I bought that Magewell, and where I got it. Lo and behold, I found a verification email for my product review on B&H. Apparently it was 2 years ago, not 3. I was close in my recollection of it being 4:3 and stretched, but I didn't have it quite right.
This is what I said at the time:
It sort of did work, just badly. The problem is that it automatically cropped the video top and bottom, then stretched the remainder back out to fill the window. I don't know if I got a bad unit, if it is a Mac compatibility thing, or if this is just junk by design. It did automatically sense the unit, it showed up as a web-cam, it was select-able in many programs to use as your camera. But the crop - then stretch thing makes this unusable. I am saddened, as I had high hopes.
tried on Mac OSX10.10 and 10.8.
tried on 3 different macs
tried in Webex, Skype, Facetime, and Quicktime
tried at 1080i29.97, 720p59.94, and 480i29.97
tried different cameras
. . in all cases, it cropped off the top 20% and bottom 20% of the screen, then stretched the remainder out to fill it back in.
At the time, I even made a simulation of what it did to the video, the top is what it should've looked like, and the bottom was what it did look like:
Also . . . . i now recall not liking that it had the miniBNC instead of a regular BNC. I guess others haven't had these issues with it, but it was enough for me to not buy it again. Plus, AJA is very well known for having products that are reliable.