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ADS Pyro 1394 WebCam - Web camera - color - FireWire

ADS Pyro 1394 WebCam - Web camera - color - FireWire

50 reviews

Jun, 2025

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alaTest has collected and analyzed 50 reviews of ADS Pyro 1394 WebCam - Web camera - color - FireWire. The average rating for this product is 3.8/5, compared to an average rating of 4.0/5 for other products in the same category for all reviews.

We analyzed user and expert ratings, product age and more factors. Compared to other products in the same category the ADS Pyro 1394 WebCam - Web camera - color - FireWire is awarded an overall alaScore™ of 74/100 = Good quality.

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Consumer review (amazon.com)

Amazon.com review summary for ADS Pyro 1394 WebCam - Web camera - color - FireWire

alaTest has collected and analyzed 19 user reviews of ADS Pyro 1394 WebCam - Web camera - color - FireWire from Amazon.com. The average user rating for this product is 3.7/5, compared to an average user rating of 3.9/5 for other products in the same category on Amazon.com.

79% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Jun, 2025

Expert review by : Jason Cox (pcworld.com)

ADS, contact PYRO 1394 Reader for Digital Media

No external power supply necessary

Expensive

Feb, 2001

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Expert review by : Jan Ozer (pcmag.com)

Hold Your Fire: Wait on ADS' PYRO 1394 WebCam

Jan, 2001

Partner Source

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Expert review by : Matthew Honan (macworld.com)

FireWire Web Cams

In terms of overall quality, none of these cameras can touch the iSight, thanks to its excellent picture and sound capabilities and its industrial design. In terms of value, the Pyro's price, software bundle, and picture quality make it the best budget-co

Great picture quality ; best software bundle

Bulky ; hard to position at eye-level

Dec, 2003

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Decent for Archival

If it had support for other resolutions and codecs, that would be nice. It's locked at 720x480 DV.

It has pretty good quality outputting to DV from a variety of source types

The component inputs were non-functional for me, which makes recording analog content at the highest quality impossible. Also, there is a delay of at least a second between whatever your source video is doing and what is outputted by DV. This makes...

Feb, 2011

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Ext. capture card

Recognized as a camcorder in the Capture Viewer(DELL)..I'm useing this product w/Windows 7 HP and its excellent..with ROXIO Creator 10(Capture)-great..and the Import TOOL for Windows/recognized as a AVCompliant Device.

Excellent Firewire connectivity/has analog IN/OUT

Finding software for XP Computers/had to use a DELL Computer w/XP Home Edition and DELL Picture Studio(VideoWAVE)software..with a Atlantis Video Card

Feb, 2010

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Pretty nice

works great for me with Leopard and Final Cut... Component INs work great too and are very clear

Poor explanation of dipswitch combinations in manual. Make sure you lock the audio to 48khz 16bit or it will go out of sync (all switches down)

Jun, 2009

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

ADS Tech not good with QA.

1st when I opened the box all the plastic bags were already torn open and was missing the 6 pin FireWire cable (had one on hand tho) & the Quick Start guide. After trying to capture video without success I started to dig a little deeper. Win 7 and XP...

the power light works and the others flash. Has FireWire connections

Couldn't get it to work after 5 hours on two different computers with XP and Windows 7 RC (fresh install) even after correcting for the mislabeled model number and hardware dip switch settings

Jun, 2009

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

ADS Tech PYRO A/V Link

I like it..if your having quality problems from your Television COPY-I seem to have found that there is a security device running these days..that makes the VIDEO-skip when CAPTURED to a HDD..even on the VCR-tape..and SAVING to your PC(Vid-skips)..but...

It works if you have a COMPATIBLE Capture CARD installed..all the Connections are sending Vid/Audio to the PC..the Stand-alone even acknowledges weither your useing a Analog or a Digital Device to RECORD-from..the FILES are Perfect for EDITING..//I...

Its very lightweight..I think the REAR-FRONT Panel is configured poorly..my cables are a mess..it should have SIDE-connectors

Nov, 2008

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

PYROa/vLink

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It works/nice design..I use it with a Version of DELL Movie Studio PLUS-VideoWave Movie Creator/it replaced a INPUT/OUTPUT Cable that came with that Application--sound quality-is superb

Its very light-weight/I actually tape it to my Printer when I'm useing it..its also kinda' backwards/this Component has a great looking FRONT Panel and when I'm useing it--the FACE is towards my equipment--while my PC is looking at its REAR...

Sep, 2008

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Consumer review (newegg.com)