The unit itself is slightly smaller than a Zip drive sitting on its end. The back of the unit has the same ports, but these are outputs. The power cable also plugs into the back of the unit. Out of the box, I was amazed at how small the Hollywood DV-Bridge really was. I had looked at the product information on the company website, but for some reason I was thinking it was larger than it turned out to be.
Good things do in fact come in small packages.
I was most interested in getting some family home videos off a 8mm Video camera and onto the computer, and then back out to a VCR so that I could watch them on VHS tape. It would be nice if Dazzle also included an RCA cable, but these are easy and cheap to come by, and I had three or four of them lying around. To start, I connected my Sony camcorder to the Hollywood DV-Bridge via a set of RCA cables. The Sony also does not support S-Video. Knowing from previous experience that the left audio input of any device in for mono, and that my camcorder only supports mono sound output, I connected the output of the Sony to the left input of the DV-Bridge.