The small format, fix nicely on the desk. Stylish look but that a personal preference. Straight out the box compatible with obs. Video quality is great. I do recommend watching setup videos for this. Easy to mess things up.

This is a great streaming device for someone who is just starting out and is on a budget I use this for twitch daily and I absolutely love it. It connects like it's a camera and has good quality for what I have seen. Would definitely recommend to someone and have recommended this to other streamers who are on a budget and not looking for an elgato price but elgato quality.

****THIS REVIEW IS FOR THE BRAND NEW (at time of review) XR1 PRO, NOT THE XR1****

Little bit about my setup:

Gaming PC > HDMI > Gaming Laptop (Stream PC) > HDMI > Onkyo AV Receiver > Television

Gaming PC: Ryzen 9 5950x, RTX 3080
Gaming Laptop: Ryzen 7 5800H, RTX 3070 (Full Wattage)

Tested only using 1440p @ 120 fps, HDR on, Color Space: Full/RGB

I mainly bought this as an experiment as I didn't appreciate the fps loss I had (even with a 5950x) streaming from the same PC. The capture card has absolutely no lag, cutout, or issues I have run into. It strips out the HDR on capture appropriately with only minor color adjustments needed in OBS to match the HDR source in SDR. It requires no drivers, and the RGB software (download required) works fine. The main problem I have is that it does not come with a C-to-C cable (which I already had, and am currently using with the PD port on my laptop without issues) and instead comes with a 2x USB-A to 1x USB-C cable which (for me) was required to update the firmware (There is a day 1 firmware update)

I tested streaming the following to Twitch @ 6000 kbps without any issues. Input source was 1440p and downscaled to 1080 via OBS on Lanczos scaling. Loading is of course measured on the laptop:

1080p60 (NVENC) - Super smooth as long as you keep the fps above 60 in-game, GPU encoder load was 40%, CPU load negligible
1440p60 (NVENC) - Super smooth but blocky on motion, again fps must stay high to keep it smooth. GPU encoder load was 70%, CPU load negligible
1080p60 (Software h264, slow preset) - Smooth and pretty high quality, not a huge boost over NVENC, but there was still improvement. CPU sat around 40% load, GPU 20% load
1080p60 (Software h264, slower preset) - Smooth but no huge improvement in quality over "slow." CPU load around 60%, GPU 20% load
1440p60 (Software x264, slow preset) - Pretty sketchy, basically maxes out the system, I don't recall it being super smooth either, but I think we're pushing it here, and twitch bitrate doesn't really work well with this resolution/fps combo anyway.

Dropped frames were non-existent on any of the above settings.

EDIT: I found that it DOES NOT downmix audio to stereo, making the need to reduce my review to 4 stars. If you need to downmix audio you will need to use Voicemeeter Banana and VBAN to downmix and send audio over network.

I love the pass through. I have it hooked up to an hdmi splitter and now when I open OBS, with a remote, I can change the hdmi input that passes through the capture card so at a press of a button I can switch recording gameplay from my Xbox, ps5, switch.

No need to update drivers or install anything as others suggested. Just plugged everything and added into OBS and it worked.