Tendak 3RCA AV CVBS Composite & S-Video R/L Audio to HDMI Converter Adapter Support 720P/1080P with 3RCA S-Video Cable for NES SNES N64 PS2 PS3 HDTV

This converter works great. High quality picture. This new version allows you to cycle through 6 resolutions: 480I, 480P, 720I, 720P, 1080I, 1080P. So you can keep native resolution of your original source. I have not tested with a games system yet (will be testing with an old PlayStation 2). I primarily bought this to watch old VHS tapes played on an old player with only RCA output. For this it works great. Also , quality seems high. Product is metal cased and has very high level finish. Updated 10/11/2020: I tested with a Playstation 2. My older 60 inch Sharp tv still has the RCA connectors on back so I was able to test native RCA and HDMI (through the Tendak). The picture looks about the same except that the image from the Tendak is a little brighter and maybe slightly less clear. The original output from the Playstation is not very good to start with so I believe the Tendak does a good job on the conversion.

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.

I was working on upgrading the picture quality of my old video game consoles, and I used this product for my systems that use s video. However, I believe this product greatly struggles converting 240p video into HDMI from s video, because the N64 came off very dark and struggled with contrast. However, when I plugged my GameCube in, which projects a 480i video, it worked great. Just wanted to give you a heads up.

I bought this to connect our old JVC VHS player to our new Samsung 4K UHD television. It works very well. The picture fills the screen and looks about as good as I would expect a converted VHS image to look. The on-screen menu from the VCR has some blurry letters, but they are still readable. I forgot to switch from S-Video to Composite to see if that helped the blurriness. Will test that and report back, but S-Video is supposed to be somewhat clearer, so I'm not holding my breath on it fixing anything. My complaints are minor: the S-Video cable keeps coming unplugged from the device. I'll try to bend the round part of the jack a bit and see if that makes it "stick". Also, the LED indicating the video resolution is very bright. If a dark room is your thing, you might put a piece of black electrical tape over it. Pros: Relatively inexpensive, works well, comes with everything you need to make it work Cons: S-Video cable keeps coming unplugged, bright LED, blurry VCR menu Overall, I would buy this device again if I needed one.

I originally bought this product to upgrade from my cheap mini converter which only takes composite video. S-video is supposed to be a big step up from composite, so this Tendak product looked like a great deal. However, when I hooked it up it looked terrible. The worst thing is fragments of the picture going down the right side. Not only that, but the picture didn't look any better than my cheap composite converter! The color bleed is bad and the whole picture is just way too noisy for S-video. Hopefully you can see these things in the attached photos. Even when the original 4:3 picture is stretched in 720p mode you can still see the fragmentation strip on the right side. ALSO, when in 720p (or above modes), it doesn't even stretch it to fill the screen. My cheap mini converter does a better job of this! I did several tests using different cables and video sources, but the results were always the same. I even returned the first unit and exchanged it for a different one, hoping it was a factory problem. But still the same! I can't believe anyone would design and sell such a terrible product. Also I'm baffled as to why it is reviewed so highly by so many people. Maybe peoples' expectations are low, or they don't notice the fragments of video lining the right side. But I would hope that kind of thing is completely unacceptable to most people. If you're going to design a video converter with such features as 480i, 480p, 720p output via HDMI, and S-video & composite input, why would you not do at least a DECENT JOB?? Again, how does my cheap little mini converter do a better job than this $33 piece of junk? If you're looking for something cheap that takes composite video (the yellow connector), then just get the mini converter. If you're looking for something that takes S-video and outputs a nice signal, I think it would be worth it to spend the $99 for a Retro Tink which outputs a clean 480p signal. This Tendak product is NOT a good middle ground. I really wish it was.

simplemente el S video te da un plus! la escogí porque puede cropear y sobretodo porque son 1080 i y p. el audio esta bien pero no lo uso, lo conecto aparta a una interface.

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 :)

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.

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 Converter The 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 test The 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