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I tried Radio Shack, Target, Best Buy, and others without finding it. I thought it strange that this product was so hard to find in a brick and mortar store. I have a tv that lacks s-video so I needed this to covert S-video signal from my laptop and then I can show photos on a bigger screen.
FYI: The little arrow on the product (S-Video side) in the product picture is only there to show the reference position of the S-Video pins, and does not have anything to do with the direction of the conversion. The product worked on both video cards. The product works. I tried it on a 4-pin S-Video out connector on an S3 video card and on a 7-pin S-Video out connector on an ATI video card. The color intensity was lower on the TV, but then that was how I had the TV set up.
The converter works great, excelent picture quality, great for viewing movies from the computer in the tv. I would recoment this to everyone, has the quality of the higher priced converters for a fraction of the price.
It beat my RF converter hands down, was easier to use, and shipped fast. I tested it between my PC's AGP graphics card S-Video output and the composite video RCA inputs on my Color TV, B/W and Green Screen monitors. If you want a high quality S-Video converter, then search no farther. I bought this little guy, tried it, and said "Hit the road." to my bulky S-Video to RF converter. All three had very good pictures.
The video jack is sturdy, connects well, and passes the VCR signal just fine. I'm using this to covert a composite video output on a VCR to connect an S-video cable to my AV receiver (since the receiver won't convert composite to S-video and the receiver is connected to the TV with S-video). For $11.80 with shipping, this is a good product.
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