This product suits my needs as a streamer perfectly. Not only that, because of the near zero latency (you may have to disable buffering in the settings otherwise there is more noticeable lag) I can play my PS4 through my PC Monitor (which is handy because my PS4 is right next to my PC anyway).

Long story short, east to install, just plug it in, put your HDMI cords in the right slots, and run the software (OBS for streaming / Elgato software if you just wanna game through the PC).

I couldn't be happier.

Amazing product. Definitely recommend to anyone who is content creating or streaming on PC or console. Seamless install ready to go in minutes

I've played with a few screen capture devices. Honestly if you're doing PC capture… Don't go here… Stick with your Nvidia Shadow Play or AMD ReLive… It's just easier and better. HOWEVER if you want to capture your console plays at home… This is the babe for you. Quick setup, easy to use and hell… Even it's streaming addon isn't bad even if it's quite primitive at it's current state, which will obviously evolve slowly. (but stick with OBS) What does it do that others don't- NOTHING… Maybe make you age a little quicker. I am a huge fan of Avermedia products, and they will always be my first love… But I decided for my PCI option, to go with the Youtube promoted Elgato. I regretted it a lot at first, but now having fixed it's weird bugs to communicate properly with my system… It's going great. Audio is still a huge problem, and that isn't very cool… It's very intermittent which is just as uncool, because diagnosing the problem is bloodyf*********­*****tripleti­me**********ho­ly**********************­**********************xp­ialidocious. But you can work around it. Do yourself a favour, and don't uninstall the device driver ever. Just don't.

Pros: Video is Lagfree… If 0.03234235234 s­econds don't matter to you. H.24 Encoding on board. 60Mbps bitrate, if you think you can handle it. Flashback Recording and Master Copy is actually amazing. In Particular the Master Copy… Giving you a *.ts file with a ton of options… Separately saving your Gameplay, Webcam, Graphics and many different audio inputs (i think about 12) depending on how you set it up. Which is great to “play” with your friends voices… Especially everyone's friend xXx420blazeitxXx who always has his audio so low due to his crappy generic headphone mic, constantly hearing his mum telling them to go to bed and when he get's “red shelled” always distorts from yelling at everyone and then rage quitting. Cons: Audio is not Lagfree… When you are hearing it live. You really need to find your sweet spots with the whole thing… You also need to spend 800,000 (not an exaggeration) hours playing with it to get it right to work with all of the inputs it says it can handle… Which it can't… But there are work arounds. (okay maybe it was a little bit of an exaggeration.) Say hello to Reaper, Audacity and/or Audition. (or any DAW.) There is also a really terrible bug, that if you uninstall the drivers… You will probably have to reinstall Windows to get it communicating with the device again. They say this is a Windows Signed Device issue… But clearly… It's an Elgato Driver issue… And maybe they should suck it up, and fix that.

There are several other issues, that are easy to fix, that seem to be best if you discover them, as it wont happen to everyone. Overall: It's a good device, a little pricey, but has some great stuff in it. The Master Copy alone is pretty gosh dang great.