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Dazzle Dilemma
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Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Crystal Lake, Illinois, USA
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My Dazzle Hollywood Bridge is connected to an Allegro DVD/VHS player that reads every format. When I first got the Allegro, the Bridge worked fine on both the DVD side and the VHS side and I could view and clip anything on iMovie. I haven't changed any settings (other than OS upgrades, including Panther), or wiring and now both the DVD and VHS has extreme static with large black patches and the audio is nothing but screeching. I can barely make out the images. I've checked and double checked the wiring, rebooted several times, tried an S-Video cable and it's the same thing.
I've plugged a TV into the DVD/VHS player and it worked fine. Replaced the Firewire cable, and replaced the Audio/Video cable from the player to the Bridge.
Has anyone using the Hollywood Bridge had similiar problems? Does it sound like something fried insid the Bridge?
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Nov 2002
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not all that similar but one day I noticed that my left audio channel was coming in a very low volume. I guess you get what you pay for (it's the cheapest firewire bridge I found; I guess the components go bad after a while). I normalized the audio channels separately for a while in software, but that gave me a low hiss from the noise being normalized as well. Then I upgraded to the (cheaper) Televio PCI card.
Did you call Dazzle tech support?
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Netherlands
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Originally posted by americanuck:
now both the DVD and VHS has extreme static with large black patches and the audio is nothing but screeching. I can barely make out the images.
Has anyone using the Hollywood Bridge had similiar problems? Does it sound like something fried insid the Bridge?
I have the same problems, working with PAL-video.
I thought tha t the pass-through could only be NTSC.
The supportgroup of Dazzle is gone, since Pinnacle took over.
If you found the solution, please let me know.
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Don't believe what you see.
See it and Believe it.
Richard Hollywood
Hollywood Special After Effects
www.hollywoodsae.com
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Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Crystal Lake, Illinois, USA
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Originally posted by Hollywood:
I have the same problems, working with PAL-video.
I thought tha t the pass-through could only be NTSC.
The supportgroup of Dazzle is gone, since Pinnacle took over.
If you found the solution, please let me know.
Unfortunately, my only solution was to buy another bridge, this time I got the ADS Pyro A/V link and it works fine. I too tried the Dazzle and Pinnacle sites and nothing. I wrote them e-mails and nothing, I tried to call and nothing. I had the Hollywood Bridge for about 2 years. I don't think it should have gone bad in that amount of time. I also bought a DV camcorder which will do the tanslating also.
It's probably not the solution you were hoping for, sorry.
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