
Originally Posted by
Slacker Magician
I'd mentally filter any non-technical and short reviews like "it's great!" "it suxx" without reasons given. Even that will be time consuming to skim through though. If you can easily return stuff you may want to buy a random one and test it for your needs. You might look into older capture boxes (ie. Elgato). I'd avoid Blackmagic Design unless it was super cheap, getting one to work right was a struggle.
Expanding on what I was talking about in the first post:
I bought an HDD dock and couldn't use it for what I wanted because of the chipset. Read a review that was posted months after I bought it which mentioned they don't use the same chips for every production run despite the model number staying the same. I figure that's what you're in for.