Customer Reviews

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

5 star:		(10)
4 star:		(8)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

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.

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.

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

Bought this device for playing "Stepmania" on the TV, and it does a great job. I was also pleasantly surprised to find it came with a full set of cables.

I got one of these around the first of '08. I am very happy with it.
Computer monitors have much highwer resolution than Televisions, do not expect text to be clear on a TV, whether you use a video card with TV out or an external box like this.
High resolution games might also suffer.
An advantage is that this won't slow your computer, I have an old 350Mhz P2 and fancy video drivers were too much for it, they made video play all jerky, like a cellphone video, but with native VGA drivers it was smooth.
The only weakness in the product is that you cannot resize the picture very much. I tried it on 2 TVs, on 1 the picture was a little too tall; On the other a little too wide, but it was only slightly off of full screen coverage.
More expensive units have more control of picture size.
They also have higher resolutions, but that will not make text clearer on a TV, in fact a higher res makes everything smaller, so text looks worse.
A great product at a great price.

Normally I don't bother to write reviews for electronics, but this adapter turned out to be so useful as to deserve my brief praise.

As far as the standard package concerns, you'll actually get the VGA, RCA, and S-Video cables along with the adapter. I found that the S-Video cable produced scratchy imaging, but luckily the yellow RCA did a PERFECT job instead, so even when one didn't work, I was able to fall back on the other - 'still a five star adapter.

Occasionally I do have to press the "Size" button twice to get the TV to produce desireable results, but this is a small issue, and it fails to outweigh the awesomeness of being able to operate a PC over my TV set at any time, 24/7.

Once you plug the adapter in, expect to change the screen resolution from your PC - I recommend 640 x 480 resolution despite that it's not generous (any higher than that, and I have to put on glasses). You'll still be able to run software that demands a higher resolution. This is a sort of product that, even if you run into technical issues, there's probably a quick fix around them.

Otherwise, this adapter does a perfect job of bringing the PC to the world of television. If you have a PC that you feel tempted to throw out, don't do it - get the adapter and make the most of your software.

JOIN THIS MOVEMENT!!! YEEEEAH!!!

I purchased this box to mate with my Asus eee PC laptop and feed a video signal to a TV. So far I've tested it on a CRT TV at home and it performed exactly as I expected. I'm not a video tech all I can say is that playing some PVR recorded TV shows, the picture looked no worse (to me) than my regular cable feed.

I did have a issue with video and audio synchronization but no reviews I read mentioned this problem which was very obvious to me. The speech was way ahead of the video but played fine on the laptop. So maybe its something I'm doing and not the fault of the product. Fortunately the application I'm running (smplayer) provides the + and - keys for audio delay adjustment.

I bought this converter kit because I'll be visiting family across country, and will need to show several powerpoint presentations, MPEG-4 videos, and pictures from my recent travels overseas. My 12-inch (TOS U205) laptop only has VGA out. My brother's huge screen TV across country only has yellow composite video or S-Video inputs.

With this converter, I'm running 1024x768 on my big screen TV here. The colors are a bit "loud" and webtext could be clearer, but this product does exactly what I bought it for at a great price. It's simple to hook up and adjust the quality. My pics, movies and powerpoints look great on the big screen, and I'll be able to travel with my 12-inch laptop instead of lugging around a desktop replacement. This product is well worth the money I spent.

This is a good equipment. Even when its design is not the best (because it seems pretty rought) it's so useful. I bought it because my laptop came without TV OUT, and it has been very useful. It gives you opportunity to TV/MONITOR OUT any PC equipment you could have and it's powered through the USB, just perfect!

I had bought a new mac with the Thunderbolt port and I wanted to use it to play movies on my existing portable DVD player. I discovered that Apple or anyone else made an adapter for RCA video out and thunderbolt. I came across this solution to use the VGA adapter and this converter to get the signal out. Worked like a charm. Now when will portable DVD players start using HDMI?