I bought this to play videos from my laptop on TV, as well as to watch Netflix, Hulu, etc on my TV from my web browser. This thing is awesome, especially considering the price. Coupling this with a RCA adapter (like this one:
RiteAV - 3.5mm to Stereo RCA Male Cable - 6 ft.
) that you can connect to your computer's audio output, it's a nearly perfect low-cost PC to TV package deal.
If you've ever hooked up a secondary VGA monitor to your laptop / desktop, you won't have any trouble hooking this up. Once I received the package, which arrived in about 3 days from order (fast), I was up and running within 3 minutes. I did not have to change any settings, I just plugged it in (using the supplied VGA to VGA cable, USB power cord & RCA video cable), added the secondary screen to my computer, and it worked.
Video quality
For the price, at least on my TV & computer -- the video quality is very watchable. I can't really say it's 'good', but unless you need the crispness of DVD or beyond -- it's a cheap alternative to more expensive options and well-worth the minimal price. You could say the output is kind of like VHS quality, but to me, it's more like an image that has been sharpened, and then softened after-the-fact. Something I should note here: all the videos I watched, save one, were less-than-HD quality anyway. I did watch one .mkv video to test it out, and though it was pretty good, it certainly didn't come across as DVD-quality. Though I think that the max supported resolution was 1024x768, I was able to view video at 1280x768, and probably could have used a number of different resolutions. However, the best resolutions for watching video were at the lower end -- 800x600 seemed to offer the best picture quality, but I liked how it looked best at 1024x768.
There was an occasional flicker on the screen while it played. It didn't interfere with watching TV shows & movies, but it was there.
So far, we've used this to watch hours of videos (including Hulu & Netflix streaming videos via web browser) -- it seems to be an excellent buy.
I like this so much that I am going to build mini-PCs to connect to my TVs full time, and use these converters to provide a wireless media center for my home. I'm kind of in shock that something so cheap works so well. If you need the crispness of DVD or Blu-Ray, this adapter (or any similar unit) is not for you. However, if you're ok with decent video quality and you want to watch any type of video on your TV that your computer can play (.mpg, .avi, .mkv, .mwv, .divx, and so forth) -- grab this -- it's cheap and it works.
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PC To TV Converter - Works As Expected
Many people who are writing reviews for this thing, have never transferred video over to a tv screen before. As I have done this before, I already know about the quality one could expect. People always forget that a computer monitor has a screen resolution of up to 1680 * 1050, however standard CRT TV's can only handle up to 1024 * 768 at best, while most would handle 720 * 480. Because of this, you have to expect a quality loss, not even HD TV's can go beyond 1280 * 1204 yet!Now taking this into account, this is why I give this converter box 5-STARS. First of all, installation couldn't be anymore simpler, they provide all the cables that you are going to need. However, since my computer's video card has two outputs, I didn't have to worry about plugging the monitor into the converter box. I just connected the converter to the video card, connected its power source, and then connected the RCA component video cable.Now here is something you need to know, the image will most likely not be immediately transferred over to your TV. What you need to do is, go into your video card software, weather ATI Catylist or Nvidia Control Center, and set the display options to clone over to your TV screen. After you do this, you will need to lower your resolution down to 1024 * 768 or 720 * 480. After you apply these options, you should then see the image transferred over to your TV screen. :-)Now, one of the things I like about this box is, they provide buttons that allow you to alter, screen size and position, brightness and contrast, and sharpness of the image. This gives me some flexibility so that I can adjust the display properly on screen. To be perfectly honest, I think this converter displays images quite well on screen considering.I am able to watch movies, or news, or whatever I need to display, and I am quite satisfied. I mean, if thats all you need to do, there is no need to spend 100 bucks on something, when it can be had for only 20! Works as expected, 5 out of 5.
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