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SanDisk SDMV1-R V-Mate Video Memory Card Recorder | 
 enlarge | Brand: SanDisk
Category: CE
List Price: $73.99
Buy New: $55.99
You Save: $18.00 (24%)
New (20) Used (2) from $55.99
Rating:  22 reviews
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.6
Dimensions (in): 10.3 x 7.3 x 2.3
MPN: SDMV1-R
Model: SDMV1-R
UPC: 619659029593
EAN: 0619659029593
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Select desired playback device "profile," or manually set video format, resolution, and quality levels | | • | User-friendly graphical user interface (GUI) displayed on your TV | | • | Schedule recordings of television programs based on channel, date, and start/stop times | | • | Compatible with all major memory card formats | | • | Connects to your TV and any composite video source |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
The V-Mate allows you to select your desired playback device profile or manually set video format, resolution and quality levels via a user-friendly graphical user interface (GUI) displayed on your television screen. The GUI makes it very easy to navigate through the menu and select recording and viewing options. Recording may be done from any composite video source. The V-Mate allows you to schedule recordings of television programs based on channel, date, and start/stop times, including daily and weekly repeats. You may program up to 30 time slots. Camcorder Scheduled Recordings Compatible Card Formats - SD, SDHC, miniSD, miniSDHC, microSD, microSDHC, RS-MMC (Dual Voltage), MMCplus, MMCmobile, Memory Stick, Memory Stick PRO, Memory Stick Duo, Memory Stick PRO Duo
Amazon.com Product Description
If you've been looking for a quick and easy way to get your video onto your favorite devices, the SanDisk V-Mate Video Memory Card Recorder is just the right solution. 
The device features all the connectivity and media compatibility you need. View front and rear. | 
The V-Mate makes it easy to get your media onto your favorite devices. | Easy Set-up
Simply connect the V-Mate to your TV and any composite video source, including your cable/satellite/terrestrial set-top box, DVD player, VCR, personal video recorder (PVR), or camcorder. The V-Mate allows you to select your desired playback device "profile," or manually set video format, resolution, and quality levels via a user-friendly graphical user interface (GUI) displayed on your television screen. The GUI makes it very easy to navigate through the menu and select recording and viewing options. Easy Recording
The V-Mate allows you to schedule recordings of television programs based on channel, date, and start/stop times, including daily and weekly repeats. You may program up to 30 time slots. And because the V-mate is compatible with all major memory card formats, you can record to the media that works with your devices. Playback on Your Device
You can view your recorded video content by simply inserting your flash memory card into a compatible portable device. Now your mobile phone, handheld game console, PDA, video music player personal media player (PMP), and PC are just a few steps from playing your video on your terms.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 17 more reviews...
SanDisk V-Mate Video Memory Card Recorder brief review January 6, 2009
Ben Gordon (Daly City, CA United States)
Works OK 640X480 Max resolution, is temperamental, needs periodic reboots.
Use class 4 or better media for decent playback.
 Don't waste your money!! December 27, 2008
Maria
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I had good expectations for this product but it let me down. The fact that it has no buttons, forces you to use the remote, which has to be pointed directly at the box at about to inches in distance. But I don't mind the defects above, what really got me mad was that I had to press every single button about 20 times until it finally picked up the signal.
It was not a battery problem because I changed them, and one day I wanted to record a show and it took me ten minutes of pushing the "on" button to make it work, so I got sick and frustrated, grabbed a screw driver and ripped the remote in two. now I have no remote which means no v-mate. What a good way to spend $60.
 Depends on what you use it for....but it works great for me. December 9, 2008
D. P. Randolph (Arizona, USA)
I notice that in the negative reviews people are using the V-Mate for transfer to cell phones and PSP devices. Needing reading glasses at my age, I don't want to watch movies on a 2" screen that often. However, when transferring video from VHS to MP4 for watching on a computer or TV, this recorder is GREAT!
The first thing you should do after you purchase it is to go to Sandisk's site and download the new firmware (I wonder how many critics did that before they complained), install it and check the settings. By using the MP4 setting with the highest resolution, the video produced is as clear and smooth as the original. (Remember the video is only as good as its weakest link. Jumpy or low quality VHS doesn't miraculously get better.) This does fill the flash memory card faster, but if you are preserving family videos or obscure tapes this allows for high quality videos for DVD transfer or just to show from the V-Mate itself. What is high quality? I just showed a video from VHS on a 60" television a few days ago with excellent reproduction.
To me, the concept of having hours of video on a memory card half the size of a postage stamp is still hard to comprehend. This device, or something similar, will be the future of video storage and transfer.
2ND ONE I PURCHASED October 24, 2008
J. Lawrence (New Jersey)
I think having purchased a second one speaks for itself. While dressing at 5 AM I can record the morning news on a SD Micro memory card and watch the news one hour later on the train. No conversions are necessary. You can record from a camcorder, a DVD player (movies) or cable TV and watch it immediately. I watch my recordings on a Sandisk sansa view mp3 player: however, I have also used it on my LG phone. It also works fine on any TV using a resolution of 640 x 480, 320 x 280 and lower resolutions for internet purposes.
 Scandisk V-Mate October 13, 2008
Sam Pan
I've been using my Scandisk V-Mate for about two weeks and so far it has performed as I expected which is good. I'm satisfied with the performance. Sometimes it is slow to respond to the remote but for this price I did not expect perfection or studio quality video. It does pretty much play back the same quality video that was it received to record. TV playback is better than on a computer but I don't believe it was really meant for computer playback.
I'm very satisfied with this product. I'm still trying to think of ways to use my V-Mate.
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