needed this in hurry , so paid over top ,,expensive here for what it is .Worked fine ,got job done .

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I got better result connecting AV connection directly to TV AV than using this product. I didn’t find it very useful for me Commodore C64c

item really helped in picture quality, from original vintage equipment to new tv, helped out lots !!!

Este adaptador es justo lo que necesitaba para conectar un equipo sencillo de endoscopia con salida S- video a un monitor IPS. Muy contenta con la compra puesto que me permite usar monitores de alta definición a bajo costo. El único pero es que necesita estar bien conectado si no la calidad de la imagen baja e incluso puede verse en blanco y negro. Muy fácil de usar. Ojo, cuando conectes hay que apretar el botón de S-video, si no, no se envía la imagen.

I decided to relive my childhood and bought an old Sega Saturn console. The console I purchased came with an S-Video cable, but I didn't have any displays in the house that supported either S-Video or RCA for that matter.I did tons of research (probably way more than necessary) on the myriad of video converters/up-scalers on the market. Within the retro-game enthusiast community, these cheaper $30-$50 solutions are not well-regarded, but I really didn't want to drop $150-$300 on something like an OSSC; I just wanted to play my games. I decided to take a chance and bought this particular model, since there were some positive reviews on Youtube for it.I'm quite pleased with how well it works. It takes the Saturn S-video and RCA audio inputs on one side, converts the analog signal to HDMI, and outputs it to my computer monitor on the other. The colors are bright, and the picture is very clean (or as "clean" as 25 year old 3D games can be). There's a toggle to switch between either the RCA video or S-video depending on the input you use. There's another button that lets you switch between the output resolution. It supports 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, and 1080p, all at 60Hz. If you hold that button in, it lets you change the aspect ratio between 4:3, 16:9, 16:10, and "fit", which fills the display and relies on the display's built-in aspect ratio settings. If you are plugged in to a display that doesn't have built-in sound, there's a 3.5mm aux jack on the output side that you can plug your own speakers into.Functionally, this has everything I need. I found the best picture setting (in my opinion) was going with a 4:3 aspect ratio at 480p. I found the higher resolutions had some visual artifacts, bleeding colors, and noticeable input lag. Keeping things at a lower resolution reduced all of these to barely noticeable, especially the lag.There are a couple cons with it. There isn't an on/off switch - as long as it's plugged in it's on. Also, both the converter box, and the included power plug have red LEDs that light up when it's plugged in. The converter box has an on-screen display that shows whenever the resolution or aspect ratio changes. While this is definitely helpful, it stays on screen for quite a while, which can be annoying when the game itself switches resolution.Overall, for the money spent I'm very happy with the product and how it performs. If you're interested in getting into retro consoles and need a converter to plug them into and HDMI port, this is a good, low-price option to start with. It's not "perfect", and there are much more expensive options out there that may do a better job, but if you just want to plug up an old console and don't want to spend a ton of money, this is a good choice.

Like me, you may well have cupboards groaning under the weight of your old camcorder and VHS tapes. You might well have DVDs and Blu-rays that occupy metres of shelf space, and you may well be feeling that it’s high time they were all neatly compacted. There’s no time like the present. While you still have the ability and the hardware to replay those Mini DV, VHSc, S-VHS tapes and silver discs, it’s time to bring them all together into digital HDMI.Once you’ve converted your assorted mountain of tapes you can take a couple of Brave pills and clear out your drawers, drawers that are bursting with old camcorders, chargers, instruction books, spare batteries and the like. Your lumpy VHS (or V2000 or Betamax) recorder can be jettisoned, because all this ancient kit hasn’t got much life left in it now, has it?The Tendak Video ConverterThe Tendak black box weighs in at 173 gm, encased as it is by black aluminium alloy. You may find that your VCR, portable DVD player or camcorder only has composite (yellow for video, red and white for audio) outputs, and this is where the £30 Tendak converter box comes in. Even better if your player has S-Video out though, as this transfers a higher quality video signal. You plug in the Tendak’s power cable, connect your device using the front sockets, and the box will digitise (convert) the signal and send it forth through the HDMI socket. You can then view all your old tapes and DVDs on your modern TV, which these days will generally only accept HDMI or USB signals.Round the back of the Tendak box it gets more interesting. There’s the 5v power in socket followed by the operating LED. Next there’s a tiny button that toggles the innards to accept either the composite or the S-video input signal. Next, another toggle takes you sequentially through the HDMI’s output options, and you can choose to output at 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i and 1080p. I can’t really see the point in outputting at less than the Full Monty resolution of 1920 x 1080 30p, as they all encode at 16 mbps and some of the settings default to a very jerky and unusable 15 fps. The 1280 x 720p outputs 60 fps video, but this isn’t going to make your original 25 fps footage look any smoother. As it’s a toggle switch, all the output settings are shown briefly on a connected monitor by the way. Next there’s an audio out socket, followed by the HDMI socket – which is video and audio together of course.My photo shows a set-up whereby I can play VHS or S-VHS tapes, full size or camcorder variety. I can also play MiniDV or HDV tapes, and while any of these are playing I can check to see all’s well on the connected 7’’ Feelworld monitor. Neither the camcorder nor the VHS deck has HDMI out, so their signals are sent through the Tendak, which upscales them to 1920 x 1080 and sends them via the supplied 17” long HDMI cable.Performance on testThe Tendak video converter isn’t perfect, bit it’ll take in anything analogue and convert it to digital, though some of the settings stretch 4:3 out to 16:9. Sometimes video footage has very small blocks (like cine frames) running up the right hand side of the image, and some settings shift the image slightly over to the right, leaving a thin black bar down the left hand side. These small faults are easily corrected in an editing package should you feel the need to. If you don’t feel the need to, we can’t be friends.My Tendak is converting old camcorder tapes even as I write this, saving my memories for another day.Tom

This review is for the RCA & S-Video to HDMI box. For some reason there are reviews on here for a box that does the reverse.Like many others, I bought this device to connect vintage game systems to my HDTV (Panasonic TC-P42S1). The good news is that it works very well for doing that. I have a NES (composite), SNES (s-video), N64 (s-video), and Sega Genesis (composite) all running into a a/v switcher that then runs into this convertor. The Tendak outputs very impressive 720p (I tested the 1080 & it works too) with little to no stretching & no noticeable lag while playing. In those regards it exceeded my expectations for the price I paid. Unfortunately I am unhappy with the results. Everything is clean and for the N64 I actually like the results very much but for the NES, at lest in my opinion, the resulting larger wide screen 720p image doesn't do the 8-bit graphics any favors. The pixels are very sharp but just too big. Again, the Tendak convertor is doing exactly what it is supposed to do and it is doing an excellent job but for systems like the NES and SNES it may be doing too good of a job. I wish that the box could output a 4x3 image instead of scaling up to 16x9. I find that running the a/v switcher I'm using for the systems directly into the s-video input on my HDTV, and setting the TV to 4x3 yields more flattering results for 8-bit and 16-bit games. That being said, if you wanted to devote an HDMI port to your N64 exclusively I would highly recommend this convertor. I think the games look great (well for the N64). I wouldn't hesitate to purchase another Tendak product and I'd be very interested in a version of this convertor that didn't scale the video to 16x9 or at least gave you the option to run 4x3.