Maxview Pc-to-tv Video Converter

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Product Details

• Item Weight: 4 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within 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)
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  #40 in	Electronics > Computers & Accessories > Internal Desktop Components > Video Capture Cards
  #61 in	Electronics > Accessories & Supplies > Audio & Video Accessories > Video Converters

• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 21, 2002

Product Description

Product Description

AITech MaxView video converter brings PC images to your TV! Enhance your presentation and captivate your audience with compelling multimedia content. Use MediaShow to easily incorporate PowerPoint slides, video files, images and graphics into a winning multimedia show. Make a difference in the classroom: research studies indicate that students learn up to 30% faster when lesson plans include multimedia content. Use the big-screen TV to capture student attention and create an effective learning environment. Turn your PC into an interactive family experience. Bring the family together around the big-screen to enjoy watching DVD movies, surfing the Internet and playing PC games. The MaxView is a convenient, lightweight, and affordable alternative to projectors, and it's ideal for mobile users.

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

By	David Cox (Austin, TX United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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 3 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	Donald J. Morrison (Hampton, Virginia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.