We have a winner! Congratulations Ron! Neuros Technology will be in touch with you soon.
What better way to leap back into action than to team up with the fine folks at Neuros Technology to give away their flagship product - a Neuros OSD! The OSD is (in my opinion) the single easiest way to digitize and play back your entire media library. Got old VHS tapes you want digitized? Use the OSD! Want a DVR? The OSD can do that too. Able to play back just about any file format directly to your TV, easy to carry around with you, and the simplest way to watch your digitized archives. It connects right to your TV or home entertainment system and allows you to archive all of your DVD and video content - even right off of your video camera. Here’s your chance to own this $180 slice of awesome for free.
I’ve been using the OSD for a while now, as has my Editor Dawn and a number of friends. This is by far the simplest single point of entry for digitized media in multiple formats to get pumped right to my television. Even more to my liking, it’s an open source project that’s constantly evolving and improving.
Neuros Technology has offered to give an OSD to one of our readers and we’re going to make it as simple as possible to have your chance at it. All you need to do to score an entry into this contest is leave a comment with this post. Just tell us why you want an OSD. It can be for a noble purpose - digitizing the last remaining copy of your High School performance of Caligula. Or it can be purely selfish - playing your seven thousand hours of free BBC content on your 47″ LCD TV rather than your 15″ LCD monitor. Just let us know what you’d like it for and you’ll get an entry into this contest. From the Neuros site: Plug the Neuros OSD into your TV, connect your DVD Player or VCR, and hit play. Your movie will be safely and legally transferred into a digital library! It works with home movies too. Just plug your video camera into the OSD, push play, and your memories are digitized.
If you want more chances to win, blog about this contest (or throw it on Facebook or other social sites) and link back to this post and you will score FOUR additional entries, for a total of FIVE entries in this contest. Don’t forget to use our contact page to let us know you’ve done this! Email us your link, we’ll check it out and get back to you with your extra entries. Sorry folks, to win this, you must be a resident of the United States.
Each entry receives a number, and the winner will be chosen by drawing a random number out of a virtual hat.
Trust me when I say that you’ll enjoy the heck out of the Neuros OSD - you want one of these, even if you didn’t know you wanted one of these before reading this. This contest ends on the 30th of June at Midnight, so get your comments in now and link back for your extra entries.
How easy is it to use? Check this out:
Here are the official rules:
1. You can’t work for ArsGeek or Neuros Technology.
2. You must be a US Resident to enter.
3. You’ve got to be older than 13 and by entering this contest you signify that you are indeed a teenager.
4. You’ve got to use a valid email address that you will check when leaving your comment. Why? We’ll supply the winning email to the folks at Neuros Technology so they can contact you and get your shipping address. If they can’t contact you, they can’t ship you your prize. All other email addresses go into the dust bin. We don’t harvest emails, nor do we send spam or even create a list of addresses for some future use.
5. This contest will run for two weeks. It started on Monday, June 16th and will end Monday June 30th at midnight EST. Entries made after this date will not be valid.
6. The winner will be chosen on Tuesday, July 1st. You’ll be contacted via your email by me, and I’ll also forward your address off to the Neuros Technology folks.
7. All decisions on the winner are final.
Good luck!
The ArsGeek Team
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June 16th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
I wish I’d heard of this long ago. I’ve had a number of VHS tapes go bad, particularly some of my kid’s videos. I work from home and I’m sometimes desperate to keep the kids entertained. Converting some of their videos to DVD would help. A lot of their favorites aren’t available on DVD.
I stopped using VHS to record and started using a DVD burner, but after 6 months it’s worn out. I’d really prefer to use a hard drive
I’m trying to branch into video production, and this would make the job much easier.
June 16th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
In highschool, I was in a video productions class. One day, we thought it would be a great idea to go out to the parking lot with a trashcan-on-wheels and ride in it down the sloped lot. Let me rephrase that. They thought it would be a great idea for me to do it. I was a freshman. So they set me up on the handicapped ramp and pushed me down the slope. Well, when I got to the bottom of the lot, the wheels got stuck in a drain and ripped off, throwing the trashcan (with me in it) through the air and down a hill at the bottom of the parking lot. All of this was caught on video and aired on our school’s “news” station the next day. I was banned from leaving the classroom, and when I took the class again my senior year, there were MUCH stricter rules put in place. I still have the video, but needless to say it’s on VHS and I’m afraid to watch it for fear of it damaging the tape more than it already is from countless times of showing it off. So I would love to be able to digitize it. If I win this, I’ll digitize the video and post a link for everyone here to see it.
June 17th, 2008 at 2:35 am
Neat!
I hope this contest is completely randomly decided, and that 3 is a lucky number, because this post is utterly and completely devoid of any actual value. (Any assigned value you may attach to this post is purely delusional and invalid.)
I promise to never, ever use this for Benny Hill.
I could put my college public speaking tape on it and embarass myself repeatedly!
June 17th, 2008 at 3:02 am
I need a Neuros OSD to digitized our DVDs that are easily damaged.
June 17th, 2008 at 3:09 am
Besides that I really need a Neuros OSD.
June 17th, 2008 at 10:20 am
I have small children who don’t watch much TV, so we end up missing all the good stuff. I’d love to use it as a DVR, along with easy compilation of all the kids’ shows.
Thanks!
June 17th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
I would be able to finally transfer the home movies to a much easier to store medium, and get rid of the old video camera that is no longer used, except to playback the movies.
June 17th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Oh my, this would be so AWESOME! Finally digitize those home movies, and have a better DVR than my cable’s DVR. Hooray for Neuros!
June 17th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
I would love an excuse to get back into tinkering with linux.
Plus, the girlfriend has a great collection of westerns on VHS, and our only working VCR is part of a 13″ TV/VCR combo. Would love to surprise her by sitting her down to a “Fistful of Dollars” on our (more) modern telly.
June 18th, 2008 at 9:55 am
I would like to win the Neuros OSD because:
1. I have VHS, 8mm and vinyl recordings that I would like to digitize;
2. I would like to be able to watch Smallville the weekend after it runs (and not only when the season comes out on DVD); and
3. I want to be able to take these with me without having to carry large volumes of DVDs.
June 18th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
1. I’d really like to digitize that video of my boyfriend stealing his brother’s oatmeal and tugging on his ears (they were 5 and 3 at the time, which makes it acceptable and utterly adorable) and put it on YouTube.
2. I’d love a DVR to catch all the shows and movies I miss between research and school and D&D sessions and such.
3. I can finally watch that “Sleepless in Seattle” VHS I bought a year ago for sentimental reasons.
June 20th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
How cool is that!?! I’m super-impressed and haven’t seen anything this awesome in a long time. I would digitize all of our old family films first. I’ve been dying to do this for a long time, but haven’t had the right equipment. Then, I’d love to use it as a DVR to record new ones! Then…I’d catalog all of our digital video we have stored on our desktop. Thanks!!!
June 21st, 2008 at 12:12 am
I just want one, plain and simple.
June 23rd, 2008 at 2:44 am
I NEEEEED THAT!!!
It would keep my wife off my back for a long, long, loooooong time!
PLEEEEEEEAASE!!!!
June 23rd, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Sign me up please Kind sir
Would indeed be a much used appliance in my living room
Andrew
June 23rd, 2008 at 6:16 pm
I would put in on my desk intending to set it up and then “forget” about it for 3 - 4 months. Then, I’d set it up and connect to my dvd/vcr combo and TV to record old VHS tapes, but then be too busy to do it. Hah! That’s what I usually do with technology I buy.
Actually, I would record all 10 seasons of Stargate SG-1 for my sister, who is a poor college student and going blind with macular degeneration, which hasn’t stopped her from getting her B.S., masters, and doctorate! I would also let me catch up to my son, who is on season 5.
Eduardo
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:54 pm
My Mom recently passed away and I would like to backup some VHS tapes with her in them to DVD. I think this would be the easiest way to do this. I have been looking at this technology and I would like to support companies that support the customer’s urge for customization.
June 24th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
This is the perfect solution to all those old VHS and DV tapes I have stacked in my bedroom! We have lots of tapes of our kids and family that desperately need to be digitized and organized. With a Neuros OSD, my family would actually be able to watch all of our recordings, and I would have a clean bedroom again since I would not need to store all of those tapes anymore! Also, I could keep my family entertained by recording movies and TV shows, and they could even watch them on their iPods and PSP. Thank you for offering this wonderful giveaway!
June 24th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Wow! I could finally get all 14 grandkids pictures stored in one place??? That would make an old heart skip a beat or two! Thanks for the giveaway!
June 25th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
I wish I’d been able to get my hands on something like this years ago. I dumped a ton of money buying products that promised this or that but fell short. I started playing with video twenty years ago and have years of VHS to transfer over, not to mention the hours of 8mm that my grandfather took decades before I was born. I’m a video geek and I am pumped!
June 26th, 2008 at 10:40 am
I want to use it to digitize some VHS home video. My wife was excited to see that it support Pal and Secam. She has some tapes from when she lived in Euorpe years ago and she has been looking for an easy way to watch them again. We have the VCR to play them but no way to watch them and this sounds perfect.
June 27th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
Very nice!! i’ve got about 500 hours of some of my kids favorite videos at their mother’s house (VHS) and only a DVD player at my apartment, I would love to be able to let the kids watch some of the old movies at my place.
June 27th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
I would love to have one of these to begin digitizing my dvd collection. I’ve been looking at this one for a while, but have been unable to afford it at this time. This would be awesome to have.
June 29th, 2008 at 12:24 am
OMG I neeeed this! I’d be able to record, play across my network, these things ROCK! Must win….repeat MUST win!
June 30th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
This looks like the device I’ve been waiting for!
I would love to load a bunch of tapes of my daughter from my camcorder for my wife and I to watch. Plus, I could transfer some of my favorite DVDs to mp4 format and eventually transfer them to my iPod.
Not to mention… I don’t have a Tivo and I’m so over recording to tape.