AV/CVBS Composite to HDMI Converter Scaler 1080P … (AV to HDMI)

If you're looking to record or play retro video games on modern TVs and capture devices, this cheap box will help get you going. However, on almost all games the picture quality is very dark and it skips frames every few minutes with a jarring flicker. The USB power cord is very flimsy and easily detached from the device by accident. The aspect ratio of all games is something unnaturally bigger than 4:3 but smaller than 16:9. It cannot compare to emulation, modern day ports and re-releases of games, or even more expensive AV to HDMI upscalers. But it gets the basic job done for starters.

Using this with a PS1, the colors reduce to something like .gif format, with blocky "pixels" instead of a smooth variety of colors. On the NES, everything is grainy and grayscale with a weird rainbow pattern overlaid, which makes games more or less unplayable. Additionally, there is a text overlay in the corner of the screen, which does not go away for me.The box it comes in, as well as the "manual" are cheaply designed and offer no information. The listing mentions NTSC/PAL compatibility, but I don't know anything about that, except that it obviously is not designed for older technology.

I'll start by saying it works and has not broken for almost a year. But it's limited in its application. For the price though, what can you expect?I bought this to allow my N64 to play on my 4k TV since my TV can't recieve a 240i signal anymore. This converter did it's job just fine, the image is a little grainy so I'm going to pretend that it's the best converter I could have bought, but it IS the cheapest and it worked for what I needed. If you want to use this for anything where the detail resolution is higher than 240 I might suggest something more expensive because this will distort the image just enough to make it annoying. So I won't be using it for GoldenEye which plays in 480, because it too hard to see details.

Works exactly as described.i need it to connect a Nintendo gamecube to an hd tv.i like that it does not require an additional power adapter, only a free USB port.The colors were a little too vibrant and tended to bleed over on top of each other but that is easily fixed with an adjustment of the contrast/color on the TV set.

Works, more-or-less... but the image is overexposed. Certain colors are "wavy". I see artifacts in the image. It's disappointing to look at (for me).I'm not sure how fair of a criticism this is for the price. Upscaling is not trivial. Serious retro gamers pay $300 to import upscalers that do the job right (see [...]). I was hoping to get an acceptable job done for much less. I'm guessing a lot of people would consider this an acceptable job, especially for the money. It depends on how tuned in you are to the qualities of an image.

I purchased this product to capture N64 gameplay for speedruns, at first I thought it was great, it did the job it was supposed to do. and then I realized the colours are way way off, it's incredibly washed out and the whites and yellows blend together, making the video generally look very sub-par. I'm upgrading to the Enko upscaler that costs around 40-50 bucks, hoping it will do a better job than this.that being said this device is tolerable and isn't awful for the price point.

My new TV has a composite/component hybrid video input that, for whatever reason, was not very good at receiving a composite signal. This was unacceptable because the Nintendo 64 will never be out of date. This thing solved my problem. Build quality could probably be a tad better but for the price I'm not complaining. It works perfectly, powered by USB, switchable 720p/1080p outputs. Includes USB cable. Great product!

I bought this to allow me to connect some of my older video game systems (SNES, PS2, GameCube and Wii) to my new TV, which only has HDMI input.Of the four systems, only the SNES was really playable. I could see things just fine, although what were solid filled areas on my old TV were now striped instead. Both the PS2 and GameCube had weird and somewhat random color and transparency shifts. The Wii was highly washed-out during normal operations.Given how I can't really play 3 of the 4 systems I got this to be able to play, I'll be looking into other options....