Composite to VGA Adapter from eBay Review 

Now go from RF to composite, and then composite to VGA, and finally VGA to HDMI

I've got this device for my son's C64 and it's been working fine without a problem for 3 years. We're using Y/C from C64 and it looks pretty good on a 1024x768 LCD.

those people destroying crt’s hurt me physically >:(

The quality on that this is ridiculous. It's so ridiculous I might swear. Hecc

I'm getting one of these so I can watch VHS on my CRT monitor. 😂

I actually have a Dell UltraSharp 2007FP that has DVI, VGA, S-Video, and even composite. I also have a soundbar for it so I guess I could get sound on it if I bought an adapter. It's pretty cool though, and I should hook up some old consoles to it sometime.

I actually bought one of these as a solution to using an Apple II with a missing screen. This little thing feels cheap, is cheap, and has a lot of nuances, but in that application it worked really well.

7:57 i thought for a second that the monitor had a chunk taken out lmao

just some quick notes: the NES and N64 output in 240p. You do NOT want deinterlacing here. They're already progressive scan, and deinterlacing will ruin their image, so it's good that it seems to not be deinterlacing. I'm glad that it outputs an image that isn't smoothing out the vertical pixels, because that would look god awful in any situation except maybe PS2 era games in 480i. Also, I hope the 75hz output and resolution is optional, otherwise it will cause strange scrolling patterns and jittering. I'd love to see S-Video performance eventually. S-Video is a MASSIVE upgrade over composite for basically the same exact price Thanks for the review!

Dude, your voice+video editing ability and over all tone in how you come across is very enjoyable. You give me a sense of nostalgia as you explore all the technologies from my child hood. Especially your understanding of the technology and appreciation of it. Thank you! :)

Matt, you goober! Why didn't you get composite to HDMI? VGA is as dead as composite is, so what the hell are you doing? With your life? And when are you moving out and getting a real job? Kind regards, Dad

I ordered an adapter like this for my Sega Dreamcast when it first came out, except it connected via the proprietary Dreamcast connector and then connected to VGA - like circa 2000 or something; there was no lag then either.

I had a silver Hauppauge branded composite to vga adapter back in the day (around 2003) that looked exactly like this one. Unfortunately it worked way worse back then as it had major lag and artifacting. Didnt use it but for a couple of times. I might still have it laying around actually.

Looking into things, aparently they make some that go in the other direction. And since the GBS8200 (a cheap upscaler that also works as a downscaler to 240p) only outputs VGA, I think it might be my best option. They make cheap kind of direct converter solutions, but I think the lack of using power to do it *may* cause a lot of quality loss, so im going with this.

Absolutely love your channel and your humor! You really could have 1 Mio subs and more!

2:40 LMAOOO WTF.... 😂😂😂

That picture in picture is a surprise. Imagine playing an old game down in the corner with the RU-vid walk through on your browser.

Wait so you’re telling me that I could play on my PS4 while I playing on my GameCube? TAKE MY MONEY!

I got the exact same looking box for $20 on ebay in around 2012. Since then I've gotten composite to HDMI boxes that cost twice as much and died inside of a month. This one just keeps chugging away. It's not perfect though. They've coated it in that grippy rubbery finish that feels premium but in about 5 years it turns to sticky gunk that's near impossible to get off. And the buttons get some sort of oxidation inside them and get cranky and super irritating to use, but that's easy enough to fix with a squirt of DeoxIt or contact cleaner. The quality at least on mine is great. The deinterlacing actually works really well on things like PS2 480i though some lines of the N64's 240p confuse it and it creates a strange effect. According to the box it also features a "3D denoising filter", and I have to say that really works too. It cleans up composite enough that the first time I used it, I had to double check that it wasn't on S-Video. Switching back and forth there's a definite difference but I've seen S-Video rendered worse than this thing's composite. The upscaling is dodgy though so it's best to leave it at 640x480 and let the monitor scale it. For CRTs I find it very useful that it has an 85 Hz output. This makes motion judder a little but gets rid of the dreadful headache-inducing 60 Hz flicker, which is one thing I really don't miss about that era.

Been waiting awhile for someone to review one of these! Thanks for filling the gap (in a comedic way!)

Fun fact: VGA stands for "Video Game Ass" Also nice Olive cameo @ 6:04

The thing is probably just a single chip.

I remember buying one of these as a kid for my Wii. Works super well especially for the price

I have one of these adpaters but mine does VGA to composite you can connect your PC to an old TV :)

The Dreamcast VGA Box would go well with this adapter. The AV portion would go into the adapter and so would the VGA portion. That's how to get 480p on those non-VGA games, and on a PC CRT monitor, it's perfect.

That was really helpfull! I'm using an old atari st as a MIDI sequencer. My c64 has a composite output and the atari st is connected to a VGA monitor. Thx to your review, i don't need a seperate monitor and i just can use the PIP mode to display both! I had this device in my ebay list for months now and i just bought it.

Dope apparatus I've seen a lot of times on eBay/Amazon markets, but that I've never bought so far. This is even better that I thought, even if the quality is a bit average.

That case seems to be around for a long time, i have a device bought in the early nineties that does the exact opposite in the same case, just it being white instead of black.

I bought one of these branded "Ligawo" about ten years ago to connect my original XBOX to my monitor. Also played Super Mario Bros with the NES emulator for my modded PS1! Those were fun times

2:38 😆 “oooh rubberized plastic I love this stuff…it feels good on my body” lol dude you’re freaking hilarious man

This converter is ok, but it doesn't properly handle 240p signals properly. It's definitely impressive for the price though. The best solution that I've found for this (and I've tried a BUNCH) is the RetroTINK2X with a cheap HDMI 2 VGA adapter plugged into it. less than 1ms lag added and a WAAY cleaner picture, even rivaling that of a framemister or ossc! It is about $100 USD though so it's not exactly cheap.

Yo Matt, this is a comment on the eBay Composite to VGA review video, and I found where the product came from (or maybe someone who ripped off eBay). The one I learned my dad had is from Fosmon, and the name/logo goes where it says "composite to VGA" on yours.

I bought a composite to HDMI and it was horribly laggy, but I bought another about the same as yours and it works great.

I just went down a RU-vid hole I never knew existed and I gotta admit. It’s been one of the better holes.

I got one of these to use with a GBS-8200, didn't work because of the upscaling. It's ok, but not as good as a real upscaler. Works great for other things.

I've had one of these things for years, but it goes in the opposite direction. You put VGA in and get composite/S-Video out. It uses the same case, except in blue, and also runs off of USB power. It has a different, more primitive user interface as well. On mine, the side with the single VGA port is the input, while the side with the three other connectors is the output. Mine also has dipswitches in the location that yours has the QA sticker. I originally bought mine from a retail store (Radioshack probably?) almost a decade ago

Rubberized plastic is cool and all until you neglect it for a few years and it's protective coating starts to erode away; you're left with a sticky mess that can only be cleaned up with baking soda and elbow grease.

Hey, "VGA IN" is a pass-trough connector that allows a VGA source (for example a computer) use the connected monitor without disconnect the adapter. You can switch between "S video", "composite" and "VGA pass-trough" by one of those buttons. However, the adapter still needs to be powered to use VGA pass-trough... 😉 Looks like I have a little different version of this adapter. First, mine has no LEDs, second, mine has BNC connector instead of RCA, and third, mine has these buttons: - "AV/SV/VGA" - "ZOOM" - "PIC" - "MENU" - "RES" - "PIP" Of corse, it can't do "picture in picture" and some buttons do something different than what's labeled on the adapter. So, I say, you have a better version, dude.

I have this very same unit... been going for a couple of years without any problems... I got it for about 9 or 10 euros... I too was surprised at how well it worked actually...

If it had a USB port so we could plug it to the computer and record the output on OBS or something, it would be perfect.

This brings back memories... I had one that looked the same and converted VGA to Composite/S-Video so I could use my Core 2 Duo - PC on a spare "flat"screen I got from my older brother (No cash for a monitor). good times (And by good I mean nostalgic and not the TVs input lag - because THAT was horrible :D)

the reason why the vga in and out are inverted is cuz there are models of this particular converter that has vga in to composite / s-video out. so you can hook up a vga computer to a composite / s-video vcr/tv

3:25 Me, watching your video on exactly same monitor: It`s old but still good

i'm surprised the rubberized plastic didn't decompose back into dinosaur juice as soon as you opened it

VGA definitely isn’t dead, still widely used on new business computers

Didnt expect an irate gamer quote made me laugh

Damn that package review was great. 11/10 would want to see more package reviews on this channel.

I bet the QC sticker led, it was probably more like "all right, let's test the first one off the line. Why is the room blue? Holey S**t! We should cover that. Oh look, we have a box of stickers..."

3:20 I kid you not, right when you got to the word “noise“ I experienced buffering but didn’t realize it, and watching the captions, I wondered if it was a pun.

I also have two of these and they are just perfect for playing old consoles on my VGA monitors. I love it.

this adaptor actually works both ways, it can aconvert composite to vga and vga to composite

Hi Matt, big fan here of random tech stuff. I wanted to warn you about pixelating addresses especially in a moving video as it is trivial to reverse engineer it. I suggest cutting out the label or editing a completely opaque black box on it. I know this reaction is a bit late but I hadn't seen this video yet :)

I have one of these but the lag is very noticeable. I have a 5ms lcd monitor and when im hooked up to my crt it feels 2x or 3x as laggy. Having both displays on you can even visually see the lcd changes screens faster. Im a gamer that plays fps,fighting, rhythm games and tetris so my sense of delay may be higher than most people

I recently came to know about this channel. And I totally love your videos and your humour. Keep up!

This properly upscales 240p without interpreting it as 480i? I’ll have to get one

Exactly what I need for my Atari STe, glad (and surprised) to see these are a good bang for your bucks ! ...also your music list in this episode is top notch ! Been a while I heard some good old Dualtrax !

Can I use this device to get a security camera to display live video directly on a monitor without using a computer?

I have a very similar unit to this, and it can run off USB. It even shares the sane shell and PIP functionality.

dear lord, i am glad i found this. i dont have alot of fancy new monitors and have more than one CRT still in use, been wanting to hook up some of my old consoles to my pc monitor for a potentially sharper image. definitely pulling the trigger on one of these soon.

I would love to see a RGB to VGA adaptor, or even better a VGA to RGB adaptor, that would be awesome!

@MattKC I know this is a 4 year old video, but there's something you need to revisit on this adapter. I have a much older but strikingly similar Composite - VGA adapter, and there is a simple built-in ***game*** hidden deep in the menu options. If yours is a copy of a copy of the one I have, I wonder if this Easter egg is still there?

i have a ton of generic adapters, hdmi splitters, usb switchers, and many more gadgets like this that were incredibly cheap and work unbelievably well. i wouldn't be surprised if we start seeing cheap hdmi 2.1 splitters in the near future

I love you matt I actually needed this video

Wow I bought this like 6 years ago. Except mine is silver. It always worked but I actually used it to display a pc on an old TV. I laughed when you said "Theoretically you actually could run this off USB" Because what I got for a power supply was a chord with USB on one end, and a barrel connector on the other, and that was it, lmao.

Matt idk how but you made a ebay video converter review entertaining

I used to have that same device, just that it was the other way around. VGA to S-Video/RCA. Both VGA ports where they exactly the same, so I guess internally it's the same device, and the only difference is to what pins the RCA and S-Video connectors hook up to internally. Funny enough the PiP button still existed on mine, but it didn't don anything as far as I could tell...

A dedicated USB Power supply will output 2.1 Amps, not 500 mA. That is for USB ports on a computer for devices that do not negotiate more.

I'll always cling to my CRT TV, and my 768p HDTV from 2011, as if they are my babies. I don't like using adapters because they kerfuffle with the signal and make the image soft, blocky, or interlacey. Wow, kerfuffle is a real word.

Many thanks for your review. I just ordered one to connect my TRS-80 Colour Computer 3 to my old Gateway VGA monitor.

I have one of these, only in silver instead of black. I think bought it for a lot cheaper. But it was years ago. Recently I wanted to use it to connect an android TV box to an old CRT TV. Then I realized that the chinese android TV box already has a composite output. It's weird to have android on a 30 years old tv.

I have one for my Wii to connect it to a CRT I had laying around and it has been nothing but perfect.

I wanted to buy this back in 2004 to play ps2 on a VGA monitor (i had no tv on my room but a VGA monitor on the attic), but was unable to buy from internet, nor to find it IRL But i managed to buy all sorts of things like little TVs and portable DVD players with AV input and jack output to enjoy my nights. I remember having bought a little TV for 20$, then i would hide it in a cardboard box for the days, and then lock my door, getting the TV and play

You got an excellent one. I have a similar one, but it doesn't has that fancy menu, you have to cycle each option with a button, really a bummer. Will try to buy the one you got and check differences, maybe it's only the Firmware.

I have always bought these, but I never thought of going from composite output to a VGA input monitor. Before hdmi was standard on both TV's and video cards, I passed through the vga signal to my vga monitor and used the composite clone to go to my non hdmi fat tv, so I could watch tv and videos on my tv from my computer.

Now, put it through the OSSC

I have an extremely similar adapter, the design is exactly the same, with all the buttons and stuff, but the VGA out is actually in a good place and it doesn't glow. There must be multiple versions of this thing since I got mine on Amazon

Lol your videos either crack me up and or are just interesting. Either way there's crack involved.

i have that one but vga to composite and i use it for a ddr cabinet. in my experience it works well. i looks just like yours. also got off of ebay

Just watched a bunch of your videos. Found you with the Lego island music one and thought oh shit is that Matt from school that used to get all the flash and pj64 games for everyone? Awesome to see your running a popular channel based around this kinda stuff now. Just looking at these adaptors after seeing the new tv I got has no rca for my ps2.

yeah but now you either need a pair of speakers for sound or an rca to audio jack adaptor if your screen has an audio input port

I have a very similar looking box for VGA to composite and it does indeed work off of USB even though it did not come with the necessary cable.

I'm about to try the opposite, hook up a VGA only mini PC to my old bedroom CRT TV. Lets see how this goes lmao

What does he mean 500 milliamps for USB as far as I know USB can give you 2.1 amps that's the highest amperage I've seen on any USB charger I own Edit to mention that the switch doesn't count

I've actually had one of these for a long time now and had NO IDEA about the PIP mode, I need to go try that out now

I realize this video is like two years old but I'd suggest looking into component to VGA transcoders instead of composite for better picture quality.

When your dad... doesnt know how yt works... 0:34

I got one of those a while back but I've had problems with some colors looking too bright and blending together as solid white. It is otherwise a great converter.

How are you still below 50k subs? For real, your content is eZ good enough for you to have a few mil subs

my grandfather owned a pc shop and i found one of these in a box of his stuff from the shop

MattKC: My purposes are beyond your understanding

Picked one of these up at a car boot sale - literally the same thing with the QC sticker and rubberised plastic and all.. 1 pound, boxed :D

Just subbed nice channel

Waiting for more great content! You deserve way more subscribers, and you'll get there soon enough if you keep up with this

What happends whith norms like ntsc or pal it detects them and automaticly changes them?

When you do PIP, is there a way to make the s-video (smaller) pic any bigger and/or move it anywhere you want on the screen? Got the galaxy brain idea of making “borders” for some of my older games which would basically be the game itself playing in the middle of the screen with my pc displaying an image that it sits on top of... Niche of the niche uses, here lol

Now beat Lego Island and Super Mario Bros at the same time.

Or you can just buy a mini tv that has component but ok. I have a widescreen that has zero lag. ZERO and it's component and HDMI. The colors are nice and you can change the aspect ratio.

you shoud look at "GBS Control Dual GamesCare Scaller", it's a image scaller from a brazilian company.

Saw the thumbnail and was like hey! I have that too! I bought mine from aliexpress though. That thing is honestly amazing. Indeed the picture-in-picture does exactly what pip does on android. But you can't choose which is the smaller one. If you have a VGA and composite signal going through it will display the composite signal in pip over the VGA signal in the bottom right corner and you can set it to 2 different sizes. Indeed the VGA output is next to the other inputs which is weird but eh. The menu is really nice to have as, at least in my experience, consoles just look very dark, so i always have to up the brightness, but only when playing a game on a console because on the VGA signal it doesn't give any issues. Maybe that's because mine runs off of a 1A phone charger. I should have the exact same as you have even though mine came from aliexpress, but it has everything exactly the same, even the blue light through the sticker. But mine came with a USB cable to power it and it runs just as well off a USB port from my laptop as it does on the phone charger. It also doesn't seem to care about what console you use. I use mine with an N64, a gamecube and a PS2 and it all runs the same. Also no noticeable input lag added to it so that's cool too. And it supports some pretty decent resolutions at 60 and 75hz if you want. Only thing is audio. It does not support audio so you'd have to find a way to route the audio somewhere. Seeing that you use 1 cable to the rca input i don't know how you'd do that, where i live there's always 3. The red, white and yellow, where yellow is the video signal and red and white are right and left audio respectively. You can just route those 2 cables to any rca input on any audio device that has those as inputs so there's no problem there really. I have mine routed through an audio interface. Overall it's a really cool thing and works very well actually :3 But i'm still wondering why yours came with a 2A adapter whereas mine just came with a USB to whatever that round plug is cable.

the bad thing about this is that deinterlaces 240p, which is a trick to have progressive in 480i, so it might look weirder than true 2x to 480p