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Worked like it was supposed to, I used it for hours with no problem going down memory lane playing my Mario, conta, bomberman a, Tank and so on..mCrystal clear picture quality and the sound sounds great. No issues at all, best available for AV to HDMI. Perfect for classic consoles , kept the resolution to 180P while playing, crystal clear. Price is cheap, setting it up was super easy, and the results are solid. Can't go wrong with this.

UPDATE 4/14/22: STOPPED WORKING. I bought this for a TV/DVD player I rarely use. It worked great when I installed, and again one other time (I think). HOWEVER, I tried to use it last week and it didn't work at all. NO SIGNAL THRU HDMI. I installed it on a power strip and only power it when I power on the DVD player. DVD Player comes on, but no signal thru. Amazon said they will replace it, so I will give 4 -stars instead of my intended 1. We will see if new one lasts longer and is more dependable. The UPGROW RCA to HDMI Converter is a great product. I was somewhat hesitant to purchase this for an older DVD player, but it was so easy to install. It was really plug and play--easier than putting batteries in a flashlight. After installing, the picture was bright and we experienced no problems at all. We installed the USB power block on the same power strip as the DVD player, so no extra steps are needed to change source to the occasionally used DVD player. I would definitely purchase this product again.

I just purchased two units for an old game console and an old DVD/VHS combo. I tested the first one out and what I saw was what I expected... First and foremost, I've read dozens of complaints regarding this (type of) item and every single one that complains about focus, sharpness, distorted picture, etc. is because they overlooked PHYSICS. I'm an electrical engineer, so yes, I'm qualified to state the following: For anyone who has ever tried to enlarge a photograph, as SOON as you begin to hit 1% larger than the original, you've begun to distort the image. You can take a LARGE image and reduce it in size by removing content, but you cannot ENLARGE an image as there's nothing to "fill in the extra space." The way these devices do the enlargement is to take a dot (pixel) and make it into a square/rectangle based on the amount of stretching you're doing. People don't realize that they're fancy 4K televisions have almost four THOUSAND pixels width by more than two THOUSAND pixels/lines tall - it's because of this (and "widescreen") the resulting images look poor. NES64: 320x240 (dots) native resolution depending on the game ("capable of 480i"), Wii/Wii-U: 480p (852×480) native resolution depending on the game ("capable of 1080p"), SNES: 256×224/512×224, Atari: 160x192, PS2: 480i/p, Playstation: 256×448, just to name a few. Take an NES64 game of 320x240 and imagine it being displayed on a 4K television with NO stretching being done at all. The game's "image" would be a small box at the top, left corner of the screen, almost 90% of the rest of the screen would be empty. The old style (CRT) televisions usually maxed out at 480p (in relation to today's "pixels") so a console like the NES64 would be up-converted in a sense turning (roughly) a single dot into two rows of two dots in order to fill the screen. The screen was also almost perfectly square, so displaying the same image on today's TVs needs to also be square (4:3 ratio) otherwise you're stretching and already stretched image a lot more (16:9) which distorts the image a lot more. Yes, these devices do what they're intended. No, you're not going to be amazed at the quality of many older devices displaying images that are overly stretched in order to fit on your flat-screen. If your set is fancy enough to down-scale to 480p or less, you're in luck, as it's as close to a natural image you'll get. If you're connecting a Wii/Wii-U that have the RCA cable, there are devices made specifically for this purpose at around the same price (search for "Wii HDMI".) For those with "bad" devices, follow these safety instructions: 1. Unplug the TV and the device you're intending to use this with. 2. Plug the USB cable into the converter FIRST, then use a reliable USB power supply and connect the cable to it. 3. Plug in the other two devices (TV last) and fire everything up. * The old USB-A Mini cables are known to be a bit risky at plug-and-play; it's best to unplug power to prevent shorting things out. When connecting an old video game console, VHS and/or DVD player, etc.: 1. You're likely going to see a picture that's more dim than you might expect, this is common due to the stretching. Increase brightness, adjust contrast as needed and set the "Color Temperature" to Game or White depending on your TV's settings. 2. Disable ALL stretching (Zoom, widescreen, etc.) and set the screen to 4:9 ratio. If the TV has it, set it to 480i or 480p and the switch on the converter to 720p. 3. You MUST have an HDMI cable (v1.4) capable of no less than 18Gb speed for reasonable 720p video. A cheap media cable will "leak" due to the lack of shielding within the cable AND the cheaper/thinner wire inside it.

Works well, I use it to save my home videos on VHS to digital with my PC using a HDMI capture card. the quality seems to stay even though the tapes aren't nearly 1080p. The converter comes with a small card of warnings, a list of the parts, and some troubleshooting advice, but has no instructions. It's easy enough to connect, its only one-way RCA to HDMI, and it allows you to switch between 720p and 1080p upscaling. The USB it comes with is for power, and that's it. You can really use this for any device that starts as RCA and needs to be plugged into HDMI, just make sure and have extra RCA and HDMI cables handy, you will need them to run through the converter. Other than the clarifications, good product, works as intended without quality loss.

I have been trying to connect my turntable to my sound bar for a long time. I have an album collection that is near and dear, but that has been collecting dust for years because all of my home theater systems wouldn't connect to my turntable. So I got a new turntable and still had no success. When I changed over to a sound bar I thought my problems would be solved but I still had no sound from my turntable. I did some internet searching then found the UPGROW and decided to give it one more shot. This connector made it so simple: I was playing albums in about 2 minutes. The price is amazing: there are many devices that had advertised prices that were so much higher , but this device did exactly what I needed. I am so glad I took a chance on the UPGROW!

New tvs don't have AC plugs anymore so i bought this for my Wii. It's probably just the fact that 4 K TVs are more high def but my last TV was pretty high quality and the Wii worked perfectly fine and was a nice picture. This adapter makes all the colors really muted and it looks like the game was only a step above PacMan. But most likely this is the only way I can play my old games so I'll just have to accept it. Not sure I'll use it much though.

First thing to note, is that on my version the switch for 720p and 1080p are flipped. It's not a big issue, I set it to 720p and forget it, and it will display 1080p. I am using this in conjunction with an HDMI capture card and Open Broadcaster Software, to digitize old home videos from a VHS and some other tapes. The quality of this combination is much better than one of those video converter devices you can buy, and I can record in 1080 vs. 480 for something like the VidBox. That is overkill, but it lets me downsample the output file to a much better picture. One thing to note is that the video will be stretched, but Open Broadcaster Software can automatically export it to the correct aspect ratio. The one thing I wish I could get it to do is not display the resolution for a few seconds at the start of each recording. I have a work around, but it isn't always possible to avoid recording that little resolution display. The good news is it disappears after about 5 seconds.