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Despite some claims for going both ways, it works great for combining S-Video to Composite but not so much for the other way. I got a lot of color banding and noise.
My intended purpose was to use this converter with a Channel Plus SVM-22 UHF MTS Stereo modulator that only has SVIDEO in and then use a VCR that does not have SVIDEO out. On the LCD monitor, there was a crosshatch artifact that was similar to herringbone distortion. I threw the dice with this product and came up snake-eyes. I can't explain the difference between the two TV's I have. On the other TV that I tried, I got better luck, but I was still disappointed. For that purpose, this device is still just marginally acceptable because of the significant darkening of the signal. Even if you don't get the interference like I did with my LCD TV, you still be faced with the darkened signal.
The Dayton conveter is solely responsible for the darkening.If you buy a Dayton converter, you'll have no way of knowing beforehand if it will work at all with your setup. If your TV has individual settings for each input, you can probably correct the picture. Here, I detected no artifacts nor any loss of signal quality, but the picture was substantially darker than when I went directly from the Laserdisc or from the PS/2 to the DLP TV with either direct SVIDEO or direct COMPOSITE. I tried two source devices, a Sony PS/2 and a Pioneer Laserdisc player. I deemed the Dayton converter unacceptable when used with the LCD combination. I deemed the Dayton converter marginally acceptable when used with this combination.
If I adjust the TV input to compensate for the darkening, the second input on the SVM-22 becomes too bright. I haven't found another product that will do the conversion, but I don't want to spend more than what a VCR with SVIDEO-out would cost. The output signal quality was unacceptable when used with an LCD monitor from Westinghouse. The second TV is a large DLP. I did some additional tests involving the laserdisc player, the Stereo modulator, and the Dayton converter.
Since both of them result in the same poor picture quality, it doesn't appear that it is a fluke of getting one which is defective. Originally, I bought it so I could connect an old VCR (which had RCA or coax output only) to a flat-screen TV (Sharp Aquos).
Perhaps I'll give it a try, although I really have no use for such an adapter. I thought I'd just use the RCA to S-Video adapter.
I wanted to use the inputs in the back which means I couldn't use a RCA video connector since the RCA video input on the Sharp is on the side of the TV. I thought it might be the output from the VCR but when I plugged the RCA video connector directly into the RCA video input on the side of the TV, the picture looked fine.Perhaps using it as an S-video to RCA works better.
Unfortunately, I have two of these. The picture is "watchable", but it is obvious there is degradation of the quality.
but the picture came out so bad, I couldn't believe it.
Note: This is an actual converter and not a simple cable, which is exactly what you need if you want to plug a Wii into an S-Video port. There are devices on Amazon for $50 to $200 that perform no better than this $5 item. Great deal.
I had problems with it first but it wasn't the adapter at all, but ended up being bad RCA cables but I fixed it. I was a little reluctant because it was very costly but its a good thing I checked on Amazon because this little deal does the same job plus more. Perfect. This little adapter is great. I was previously contemplating buying a similar cord at Best Buy for $40. IT was so simple, all I had to do was to plug this adapter into my S port on my laptop and the other side goes into the yellow cord to the tv and the computer desktop is displayed on the television.
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