US$47 standard/super 8mm telecine?

Keith Walters · April 22, 2021

https://www.shiees.com/product/transverter/?fbclid=IwAR0eruxbpFAkw4pkrGrllbDPQJu8Nabz5NKKdSx7gWlHyhjWoxRObu8NWwg

This only just appeared in my Facebook feed.

Has anybody else heard of it?
Sounds too good to be true.

The video looks suspiciously like CGI. There have been other "too good to be true" products advertised online that turned out to be scams.
The best one was a DVD-VHS combo with implausibly good specs....
On closer examination you could see that the image wasn't of a real object.

Edited April 22, 2021 by Keith Walters

Keith Walters · April 23, 2021

This one sounds more plausible @ US$300 for 1-99 pieces
https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/WINAIT-1080-1044p-super-8-roll_60699531087.html

No supplier offers them for anything like $48, so it's got to be BS.

Tyler Purcell · April 23, 2021

They're all the same, just slightly different versions of the wolverine. I had one, total garbage, literally not even worth discussing. Projector and iPhone (which de-flickers) would work better.

Will Montgomery · April 23, 2021

Yep, it's the Wolverine. Maybe at $47 it's worth it?? Maybe not. It will just make you mad at how crappy it is.

Frank Wylie · April 23, 2021

If you want 1080P MP4 files (when it works), then you are golden.

From what I have seen online, customers don't seem to have much luck with it working for any extended period of time, and when it does, they are not happy with the output unless they think VHS is still the cat's meow...

Tyler Purcell · April 24, 2021

6 hours ago, Frank Wylie said:

From what I have seen online, customers don't seem to have much luck with it working for any extended period of time, and when it does, they are not happy with the output unless they think VHS is still the cat's meow...

Yea I had a 90% failure rate. I'd get through maybe 10 minutes of scanning and it would fail every time. Not worth the aggravation.,