E-Book PC TO VIDEO CABLE ( GEZ-1000 )

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 2.5 inches ; 15.2 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000A0BOB
• Item model number: GEZ-1000
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 2, 2008

Product Description

GrandTec PC to Video EZ GEZ-1000 Signal Converters

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

59 of 61 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy-to-use and works to use your computer with your TV with low resolution, July 13, 2006

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Gary Weaver (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: E-Book PC TO VIDEO CABLE ( GEZ-1000 ) (Personal Computers)

This is great if you want to just use your TV as your computer screen at fairly low resolution (800x600 is the highest I'd use for a 32" even though it supports greater). If you want to have fantasic resolution, this is not what you want (instead you should buy a media-center type computer or a graphics card that has tv-out). There is some definitely fuzzyness, but I don't mind, being a child of the 1970's and 80's - I have seen much worse. I had been searching for something cheap so I could hook a computer up to the TV and use it to play music and some games (note it doesn't do audio- you just have to plug the audio stuff up directly from your computer to your TV possibly through your VCR or in my case an RCA audio/video switch). I just had to plug it up and it worked without any configuration. It is powered by USB that hooks into the computer- so make sure your computer has a USB port. The device doesn't look like the picture shown here. It is a small silver box (roughly 5"x2"x1") that comes with all of the plugs you need.

A word of warning, if you are trying to hook your computer up to your TV don't do what I did the first time and by a simple adapter of VGA to s-video/rca video output. It was $5 so I said what the heck, but learned later (by experience and reading on the web) that adapter won't work unless you hook it to a video card that already supports TV-out and have that card output at a TV resolution (and the whole point of getting it was because I didn't have a video card that had tv-out! So instead, just either buy a video card with tv-out or a device like this.

Another note, if you go the video card route, be careful. I almost bought one, but saw that it needed at least a 250W power supply. I was using an old low profile PC with 90W power supply, so that wouldn't have worked.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Easy to Use, but Difficult to See, January 7, 2008

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Eric Sammons (Gaithersburg, MD United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: E-Book PC TO VIDEO CABLE ( GEZ-1000 ) (Personal Computers)

I purchased this for use with the Netflix "Watch Now" feature. I figured I would watch movies on my regular TV using this device. I was able to get it up and running with no problems, and was watching a movie on my TV within minutes.

However, I no longer use this device, and simply watch internet movies on my laptop screen or a PC monitor. Why? Because the screen is so dark that any scene that is not in broad daylight is difficult to see and follow. I tried every possible resolution and setting to see better, but nothing helped.

It's a good idea, and a good design, but ultimately an unusable product.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great product overall, but not good at displaying small text, March 19, 2007

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Cole Smith - See all my reviews
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This review is from: E-Book PC TO VIDEO CABLE ( GEZ-1000 ) (Personal Computers)

this product was so easy to install and set up. all you have to do is open the box, power it on, use the supplied S-Video or RCA-Video cable to connect it to your tv or projector. all the cabling that you need is included in the box!

I used mine to shoot my media center pc video to my 32" flat panel tv. it works like an charm. if you are looking for an reliable and innexpensive product to split your pc video connection to an tv and your monitor this is a great product.

if you are planning on using this product to make your tv a second computer monitor the video will probably be to fuzzy for you to use, it does not handle displaying small text very well. If you are planning to use this as a link to connect a computer to a tv to play dvd movies, video or powerpoint presentations from your computer this is a decent product for the price.

pros:
- extremly easy to install

cons:
- small text is fuzzy and small text is hard to read