No ones telling you to give grandma a 25gb file that she can't play on her TV. You could however capture a 25gb file and run handbrake while you're gone for the night to compress it more efficiently instead of allowing the capture software to do a worse job.
I don't think too many people have issues with the elgato itself not working - it does as advertised and the quality is as good as you'd expect for the bitrate used (1.2GB/Hour or so), there's just higher quality capture options out there to choose from, The old ways of using DVD recorders could use as much as 4.5GB/hour (basically 1 hour per DVD) and the old DV intermediate would take something like 12GB/Hour. Either option preserves interlacing, which from an archival standpoint is preferable. Lossless captures will give you an intermediate that is more like 75GB/Hour. To make any of those viewable on a modern computer or smartphone, they require additional steps which is not ideal for a volume-based business. Comes down to how detailed you want your captures to be, but I can see why you would use it for a business when throughput of orders/turnaround time, and portability/shareability of the final capture are more the main focuses. I have to do some more testing, but I'd say one of the less talked about issues with the elgato is that the audio quality can also leave something to be desired.
hi cam's with low h'r's i have had gear that is like new ADAT the later onre's if a studio having a clean out some betacam 1800 with 18 hr on head drum it's getting hard to find now
Its nice to have you talking in the videos, i genuinely don't mind either way. Also NTFS file system is easier to transfer higher files as there's no limit like FAT32
Just a question to try and help. Would a different desktop photo on each computer help you know whats where easier? Also your Bluetooth speaker problems might be interference from a different device in the building. It could be other Bluetooth on other laptops.
