 Did exactly what I wanted. |
| Review Date: July 7, 2008 |
| Reviewer: David J. Berry, Illinois |
I have a JVC 120 GB camcorder and it hold up to 10hr of HD quality video. I wanted a way to transfer the file off the camera and onto a portable HD so I wouldn't have to take a computer with me. Here are some pointers for those of you who wish to do the same.
1. The Hitch only puts out 500mAH at each port. Most of the portable HD come with a dual USB cable. One is for data and power and the other is for extra power if needed. The only portable HD that ran on one USB plug was the Maxtor One Touch 4 mini. The other portable HD I tested were Simpletech Black cherry and Western Digital's Passport.
2. Make sure the HD are formatted to FAT32. Every single portable HD came formatted NTFS. The hitch doesn't recognize this format.
The Portable HD of choice is the Maxtor One touch 4 Mini. It only need 1 USB port and it is also the cheapest of all the drives (when I purchased it). The Simpletech did work if both USB plugs were in use and the Western Digital locked up the Hitch.
Oh, one other thing this will be useful for is charging batteries. While it doesn't work with the Zune, it does charge it and it will also charge any other device that charges through a USB port.
While it isn't the most necessary device out there, it did do what I wanted it to do.
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No hard drive
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| Review Date: February 9, 2007 |
| Reviewer: V. Gostom, USA |
| It does what the description describes but other devices with same feature set are in $20 range, most similar devices in this $ range include a few GB of onboard storage. |
Sima Hitch Slow and Missing Quality
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| Review Date: February 16, 2007 |
| Reviewer: J. Pellicone, NY, USA |
When you hold a Ipod in your hand you can feel the quality built into the unit. But pick up the Sima Hitch and you immeditately get the feeling that they skimped everywhere they could to build this thing.
The first unit I got through Amazon was DOA on arrival in it's sealed box. The vendor took his sweet time to get back to me.
I called Sima and they were very accomodating, I shipped the product to them and they returned it and they replaced it with a brand new unit.
The Unit does NOT work on all USB devices as advertised - USB HARD DRIVES are ignored and unrecognized.
The wheel is cheeply made and I dont think it will be long before it breaks.
The Transfers are SLOW at best.
My Recommendation, wait and see if they come out with a Hitch 2.0
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Misleading
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| Review Date: March 31, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Mac, McLean, VA USA |
| I bought this planning to do some camera/ iPod transfers. I am a Mac user. Nowhere on the package did it tell you what a little slip of paper inside, and later the manual, told you -- that to work with Mac-formatted iPods, you had to first connect to a PC, reformat it, thereby losing everything on it, and then connect to back to Mac. This, of course, is absurd, in that a Mac user probably doesn't have a PC to connect to to begin with. I called Sima, who took my name and phone and said they'd call back. Still waiting. Mac users, save your money. |
Not that great...
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| Review Date: January 31, 2008 |
| Reviewer: AJ, VA |
| I ordered the SIMA Hitch and attempted to transfer data from one 60GB iPod to a new 160GB iPod, it didn't work. I called the customer service and they were not particulaly helpful at all. I ultimatley returned the device. |
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