S-video to HDMI Converter, Tendak S-video RCA AV CVBS Composite to HDMI Converter Upscaler Adapter N64 SNES to HDMI Adaptor Support PS2, Blu-ray Player, Nintendo 64, SNES, Sega Genesis and More

I'm really impressed by this box. I wasn't expecting much - just basically a passthrough of sorts. However, it's gone some way beyond this. I have a PAL N64, and s-video to my TV got weird lines on it and so was unusable, so I had to use composite (which is pretty bad on an LCD TV) Added to this I recently bought an Everdrive 64 which allowed me to play NTSC games in full 60hz. However, my TV didn't like the true NTSC signal either and I got some bad colour flickering. I could force PAL-M on some stuff (for 60hz full screen) but not all.So what the box did was take the S-Video signal and then gave a wonderfully crisp and clear signal through hdmi - much clearer than I would have thought possible - I can only suggest that the scaler in this is way way better than my TV is doing. It's also taking the NTSC signal and passing it to the TV absolutely fine. So what I have is the best looking N64 output I could have dreamed of ! Yay :)

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

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

Other reviews suggest this is a good unit.Mine was defective so returned.I could get no signal through it despite various cables and sources and every mode pushed. I did get audio passed through. I spent several hours trying different options (M. Eng.)Cables and sources tested on old TV dug out from the loft, that had composite and s-video inputs. HDMI cables tested via both loft TV and Phillips 4k digital only from PS5 and PS3. Cables definitely fine as were the sources. Other sources were NAD T743 (actual reason I wanted this unit) and Sony DCR-5E camcorder - sources can do both s-video and composite outputs.Handled via Amazon returns.

Tested on a 42" tv fullscreen on the N64 console. The picture had small improvement due to the old hardware of the console. But the edges of objects become crisper and moving around the map becomes a hell of a lot smoother on all games I tested (6) diddy kong racing being the most noticable. The map/objects don't fade with distance and reappear or pixelate and blur. Does make a massive difference in the aspect of frame rates everything just runs very smoothly (Worth noting I have the console exp. Pak). Ive tried these converters beforw and they're really cheap and dont work. This is better made, it could be better but for the price/enjoyment Id say it's worth the money, helps the eyes anyway. I happened to have a spare plug with the exact same specs the one provided is very short and I think a box of it's size could have benefited alot from a power switch. I also had to reinsert the hdmi to get it to display as it was stiff with never being used before.