Maxview Pc-to-tv Video Converter

by AITECH

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 11.5 x 7 x 3 inches ; 2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00006B6OG
• Item model number: 06-071-002-60
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #27 in Electronics > Computers & Add-Ons > Computer Components > Video Capture Cards
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 21, 2002

Product Description

AITech Maxview Pc-To-Tv Video Converter 06-071-002-60 Signal Converters

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good for a cheap, basic scan converter, February 28, 2008

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David Cox (Austin, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Maxview Pc-to-tv Video Converter (Personal Computers)

We have about 35 of these deployed to classrooms at a large state university in Austin. We use them to convert projector signals in classrooms to NTSC for streaming to the web. The products are rock solid and I've had no failures after about 3 years of deployment. There is, however, a huge difference between this product (sub-$100) and a high-end scan converter. Specifically, the max resolution you can send it is 1024x768. Accordingly, many modern PCs and Macs must be set to a less than native resolution in order to get a usable NTSC video signal. When you send higher resolutions in (such as 1280x1024, 1600x1200, or any of the modern 16:10 widescreen resolutions), the NTSC output is simply garbled static. Unlike many higher-end scan converters, this product has no buttons or remotes and therefore they have proven to be extremely reliable appliances even after power outages as they require no configuration. The downside to having no buttons or remotes is that there are no freeze or zoom capabilities on this product which you often find on higher-end products. One additional gotcha is that the VGA passthrough (which provides a looped VGA output to go to your projector or monitor) is active. Accordingly, it will not pass signal if you fail to plug in the power supply for this scan converter. This can be a problem if you're attempting to run completely untethered in mobile situations.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Did not do what I thought it would do., May 7, 2007

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Donald J. Morrison (Hampton, Virginia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Maxview Pc-to-tv Video Converter (Personal Computers)

I bought this to make DVDs from my computer, but you loose so much quality converting from the computer signal to a TV video signal that I went back to useing a video camera and recording right off the computer LCD screen to the DVD. I do not recomend it for serious copying from the internet. I used the S video hook up as they suggested for the best converson, but it was still poor quality.