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This will be my 3rd Kanexpro converter I have owned, they are good products but are flawed in their own right. I own a older model Kanexpro that converts svideo and composite to 720p. It retails for about 67 dollars brand new, you find them for 38 bucks openboxed or used. The model I am reviewing is latest version from Kanexpro that converts svideo and composite to 4K. It looks fine on my 4k tv, but you will notice a lot of noise and decoloration on black screens with both the N64, and GameCube. I can promise you it was not due to me using a cheap svideo cables with the systems. On the contrary, I used Monster gold plated svideo cables for the GameCube and N64. I noticed on the converter that the svideo and composite ports are cheap. They lack gold plating that my older Kanexpro converter had, and svideo port is lacking proper shielding. Kanexpro put a lot effort into giving the converter HDMI 2.0 support with 4K at 60hz. Don't get me wrong, the converter very impressive there are not any converters at its price that can do that. In the end, they ended up cutting corners by giving the converter cheap analog input ports, that fill the signal with noise, even with the best cables plugged in. The picture ends up looking not as chisp as it should, this is quite disappointing. You are better off buying the older model that upscales to 720p. It will not look necessarily the best on a 4k display, but you have almost RGB like color quality and good black levels. The older model has better gold plated and shielded inputs and is cheaper than the current model too. If you find the current model at a good discount, and you want something to fully utilize your 4k display, it is not a bad converter to pick up. Read full review
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The Kanex Pro CON-AV-HD4K RCA/S-Video 4K HDMI Converter comes with an AC adapter but no HDMI cable, it is built out of durable metal construction, it is simple to use. And it gets the job done for converting composite or S-Video cables into HDMI. But the image quality is only good when you use S-Video cables as input. Using the Kanex Pro Converter with composite doesn't improve the image at all. However, Using the S-Video makes the image quite beautiful. See the pictures for the stark difference between composite and S-Video. You won't need me to tell you which is which. The colors do look washed out when using this converter. Turning the color setting up to between 75 and 100 on the TV helped immensely. Also the Image is stretched. There's a zoom button with six settings which do almost nothing, only slightly increase the image size. The least zoomed in setting looks the best. The de-interlacing is adaptive and imperfect. But that's always going to be the case, unless bob de-interlacing is ever used. I hope that will come with a firmware update. It had no problem with the 240p to 480i transitions. Lag is almost non-existent and had no effect on game play. There's a bright white LED on the front of the unit that only turns off when you unplug the power. Pitch black electrical tape should solve that problem. Good quality overall when using S-Video. Could use an aspect ratio switch instead of the source switch, since you'll never have two systems hooked up simultaneously seeing as how the S-Video and composite share the audio ports. And also the LED on front is unnecessary. But if you use S-Video cables it can be a good alternative to more pricey adapters.Read full review
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