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279 of 283 people found the following review helpful.
Works but with numerous Nuisances
By E
~ INTRODUCTION ~
I got this product to be competent to watch video from my computer on my tv. After a bunch of research, this product seemed to get the best reviews, esp for the price, and overall I agree. Once I at long last put it together and tried to use it, I found a few irritations that you will have to be conscious of, peculiarly if you are a NTSC (e.g., U.S.A. users).
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~ PRODUCT DETAILS ~
First off, just to be clear, the item that shipped is a Manhattan PC TV Converter Model #150095 (UPC 766623150095)
The product is shipped the right way packaged but there’s not one thing in there that can’t handle a little rough and tumble anyway. It includes:
- the converter, which is just somewhat more spectacular than a cigarette pack
- 1 yellow video rca cable
- 1 usb power cord
- 1 vga cord
- 1 instruction manual, which is alright. It’s not 100% clear on everything but the necessities are there.
- Note: there is NO S-video cable provided.
On one of the short end of the converter, there is a VGA-in port.
On the other short end, there is the plug for the USB power cable plus a pair of jumper switches labeled 1 & 2.
On one long end, there are all the output ports. You have one each of video out, s-video out, and VGA-out.
On the opposite long end, there are buttons to adjust settings for the converter. There are buttons for “LEFT”, “RIGHT”, “DOWN”, “UP”, “MENU”, and “ZOOM”.
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~ SETUP NOTES ~
I commend that the basi thing to do is to check that the jumpers are set for your needs (noted very plainly in the instruction manual). If you are an NTSC (e.g., U.S.A.) user, be sure that both jumpers 1 & 2 are both down.
Next, plugging in the wires is pretty straightforward. The long side holds all the output ports and the single vga end is the input. I don’t think it matters but I plugged in the black vga head to the converter and the blue end to the computer.
Once it’s all in, turn on your constituents and check that it works. It didn’t take me long to get up and running but be sure that the jumpers are set properly.
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~ IMAGE QUALITY ~
The effigy quality isn’t too bad but it seems that it might depend partly on your computer and the TV.
Please note that it is UN-LIKELY that you will be capable to do things like edit documents or surf the web unless you drop the solution from your computer rather a bit. At 1024×768 (the setting I have on my computer), the effigy projected onto the TV is too unclear with the text way too little for you to be competent to do any kind of reading. If you actually want to use your TV for reading such find details, then it’s more likely you’ll need to buy a TV that may take regular VGA signals without conversion.
You may play around with effigy quality with the on-screen predilections but it doesn’t seem to improve the quality too much. The menu that comes up provides choices to adjust horizontal/vertical size, brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, sharpness, and onscreen display background. In reality playing with these won’t affect effigy quality clarity too much and it’s difficult to know where along a 0% – 100% scale that you are adjusting a setting since there is no bar to indicate that for each of the settings. For example, I can’t tell whether I’ve hit 30% or 80% saturation. I just have to guess where along that scale I am at.
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Reminder of the most important point…
!!!! For NTSC (U.S.A. users), be sure that the jumpers 1 & 2 are both down. My converter came set by the factory with both jumpers up, which won’t work on US TV’s. !!!!
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Recommendation: This product works for my goal of watching videos/movies on my TV. Just be sure to check your set up before thinking it won’t work. I got a few scrambled screens before I in the long run got the thing to show up the right way but since then, the product works like a charm. Don’t suppose perfective effigy quality. I’d estimate the quality equated to my computer monitor is probably around 75%. The conversion from regular VGA to a TV is not an easy or perfective conversion. Nonetheless, if you just want something that merely works, this will do and as such I may commend this product.
Price paid: ~$45 + shipping
40 of 41 people found the following review helpful.
VGA — NTSC SCAN CONVERTER
By K. vonSternberg
I just purchased one of these VGA to NTSC >(“Never-Twice-Same-Color”) “scan converters” to set up a secondary computer system for home theater VIDEO internet streaming. I’m a well seasoned electronics technology tech and do a reasonable amount of experimenting with audio/video, etc. I’ve tried various dissimilar (and MORE expensive) brands and types of scan converters on the market in the interest of obtaining the best overall VIDEO picture quality. This unit works EXCELLENT!
PROS: this unit has ALL the “necessary” setting adjustments to grant scan size, posistioning, color intensity (saturation), tint (hue), anti-flutter (flick) and sharpness control. Overall the unit (and I imagine it’s “clones”) performs magnificent exceptionally for VIDEO usage. Using an “S-Video” hookup with a decent TV receiver renders the best overall picture quality though the 75 ohm “composite” RCA output works as well as expected for any composite video signal. ALL adjustments have decent and usable range–better than some others on the market. If employed for fine computer graphics/text it performs ok if computer solution is set at it’s lowest settings and/or DPI is increased. NONE of “any” these so called VGA to TV “scan converters” on the market will ever approach HI-DEF or the fine resolutions received from a real computer monitor due to the frame timing/scan rate conversions from VGA necessary to in the right manner feed an NTSC signal to a distinctively slow “interlaced” TV receiver/monitor, notwithstanding this unit DOES work “very acceptably”. This unit (and most others) power from the 5 volt source of the computer’s USB port which makes for a neat, quick and easy hook-up.
CONS: when the computer shuts down so does the 5 volt source to the scan converter therefore losing the “touchy” flick & sharpness settings which are probably the most essential settings of any–at least in my situation. Depending on where these settings need to be on the person users TV’s and computers and where the scan converters default settings end up at power up/down, may or may not be of issue. The best and easiest approach to remedy this “pesky” problem is to “constant” feed the scan converter’s power source with a separate,small, 5 VDC/500mA plug in AC “cube” type power supply such as found with a lot of mutual buyer items. Be “certain” it is 5 volts DC @ 500mA, of proper polarity and well filtered. I’d rate the overall performance of THIS scan converter of *8 out of score of 1-10.
49 of 52 people found the following review helpful.
Quite good
By RC
I’m rather happy with this product. It did everything promised, and is outstanding if you want to play PC games on a TV screen or watch movies or TV shows from Netflix or Amazon Unbox. It doesn’t provide sound, so a good buy to use with this is something like this, which will grant you to play sound from the computer over your TV’s speakers.
It is missing out in documentation, with only one fold-out sheet in barely-English, and when I initial plugged it in the picture was terrible, but using the buttons on the unit I was competent to drasti improve the picture; it’s in truth so good now that I may closely read a Word document at normal size from my couch. (I fundamentally just cranked the sharpness as far up as possible and fiddled with the “Flick”, whatsoever that means, until it was good.) It includes a VGA cable, so you may connect the computer to the box and the box to your monitor, and a way-too-short composite video cable, which is basically useless unless your computer happens to be less than 2 feet from your TV; I couldn’t find a composite video extension cable anywhere, and S-video gives a better picture anyway. I at long last applied an S-video cable, but that will run you when it comes to another $20 at RadioShack. Other than those two things, this is a very good product for an splendid price.
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