Product By Geniatech(10 customers reviews)
HD Game Box is a state-of-the-art TV to PC monitor converter box , up to 1920X1200 resolution. The compact unit easily turns your LCD, CRT monitor, plasma display or projector all that has a VGA input connector devices into a multimedia center with small desktop space. With multiple video ports, you can connect DVD players, digital video cameras, VCRs or even game consoles to your PC, and view high quality video in full-screen, high-resolution images
Setup Instruction:
1. Connects all cable and power adapter
2. Choose input from AV, TV, S-Video, YPbPr and VGA
3. Choose resolution that fit your Monitor(VGA, SVGA, 1440x900, 1280-768, 1680x1050, 1920x1200 ...)
4. Select the correct Monitor Type for best image display. (CRT, USER, LCD1, LCD2, LCD3)
Features:
* Delivers crystal clear 480i, 576i, 480p, 576p, 720p (50Hz/60Hz), 1080i (50Hz/60Hz), and 1080p (50Hz/60Hz) displays on standard VGA/LCD monitors.
* Adopts standard component video input, compatible with various gaming consoles and video devices, including the PS2, PS 3, Xbox, Xbox360, WII, GameCube, etc.
* Add black bar to match with 5:4 or and 16:10 panel. No more distortion!
* Provides video pass-through function to select images between PC and the gaming console by pressing one single button.
* Provides advanced signal processing with great precision. Colors, resolutions, and details!
* High quality, state of the art motion adaptive de-interlacing for 480i and 1080i input.
* High quality scaling technology for 480p, 576p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p.
* Provides brightness adjustment which brings the most comfortable picture to you.
System Requirements:
* VESA compatible VGA monitor
* Video output device (e.g: VCR, DVD, V8, LD player, TV game machine and etc.)
Packages Includes:
* HD Game Box
* Power adapter (Switching)
* Input Cable for Component cable and S-Video Cable
* VGA IN adapter cable
* User Manual
- Delivers crystal clear 480i, 576i, 480p, 576p, 720p (50Hz/60Hz), 1080i (50Hz/60Hz), and 1080p (50Hz/60Hz)
- Adopts standard component video input, compatible with various gaming consoles and video devices
- Provides video pass-through function to select images between PC and the gaming console by pressing one single button.
- High quality, state of the art motion adaptive de-interlacing for 480i and 1080i input.
- Provides brightness adjustment which brings the most comfortable picture to you.
2009-12-21
By Q. Zhu (San Jose, CA USA)
I used the product to play Wii on my 23" monitor. It works fine. I didn't see any resolution difference between settings. This may due to the limitation of Wii output. Since I'm not looking for HD performance, it is ok for me.
Some say the unit is hot even in standby mode and the audio output is very noisy. Well it doesn't happen for me. However, I did get a non-functional unit at first. But HDTVonPC is very responsive. They shipped me a whole new box with I returning the unit only for $3.88.
I checked out few similar products online. None of them has a perfect review. If you are just like me want to covert your RCA signal to VGA, I think this is a good buy. Make sure you ask HDTVonTV to test it before ship it out.
2009-09-14
By C. Wiese (Seattle, WA USA)
After enough research, I decided on the Geniatech HD GameBox Video to VGA Converter to try and hook up my Wii to a computer monitor. It works just as described. Connecting was no problem and image quality does the job. If you're looking for an affordable way to connect your game system, this works well!
2009-07-05
By P. Chebib (USA)
i did some research before buying it,. once i received it i knew how to connect everything, which can be a hassle, but it works good to make use of your old lcd screes, not bad for the money, it is like having an extrra tv you never bought, while using older lcd or unused lcd screens.
the picture quality is adjustable to the screen resolution, no hd expected here, but it does the job.
has no remote, and is somehow techicsally challenging to figure out at first, but once isntalled it serves it's purpose. i gave it 3 stars b/c of the difficulty setting iot up, lack of remote, poor quality of the picture.
2009-05-01
By _-^-_
I use this to display video from an NTSC VCR and a PAL VCR on a VGA monitor. It works with both NTSC and PAL. The video quality is acceptable, but it's noticeably worse than the video quality when displaying NTSC video on the Samsung T240HD monitor using that monitor's cable TV input. Note that it may require some adjustment of the color settings to get good quality results.
One problem is that the packaging claims that it's capable of adding pillarboxing to a 4:3 picture or letterboxing to a 16:9 picture, to display it on a 16:10 monitor without stretching. In fact, it cannot do either one of those things. This isn't a problem for some monitors because they can do those things themselves. (For example, the T240HD can pillarbox a 4:3 picture from the VGA input, but it cannot letterbox a 16:9 picture from the VGA input.) It's still dishonest for the packaging to claim this, though.
It does not include a closed-caption decoder.
It also seems that the composite input and the S-video input are not truly separate, because selecting the S-video input while the component input is connected to a signal will cause it to display the picture from the composite input in grayscale.
I haven't tried using the sound passthrough capability, because I don't need it.
It does not include a remote control, but strangely enough it does have a receiver for a remote control. This can be a minor annoyance because it will receive commands from remotes for some other devices.
I've owned it for about 3/4 of a year now, although I haven't used it too heavily since acquiring an LCD monitor which has an NTSC+ATSC cable TV input. I still use it to get a second NTSC input on the monitor, and for watching PAL VHS tapes.
One more thing: Amazon has the wrong product description for this item. The product description shown here is actually for the SuperaColorHD, which is mostly the same as this device, but which also includes (supposedly) an NTSC tuner (but not an ATSC tuner) and a remote control.
2009-04-01
By T. Garcia
I bought this product for my 24" 1920 x 1200 resolution monitor. So far I've run XBOX 360, Wii, SNES, N64, and PSP through the component inputs and will try to explain each as I saw it. I can't honestly review the SVideo input option because I don't use this kind of input from any device.
Disclaimer: This is a review from someone who would rather play the game than keep hoping for something that retains perfect graphics. It works very well with the condition that you accept the fact that every one of these devices WILL have degredation of quality to some extent, I've been looking this information up for a long time trying to figure out how to play games on my monitor. It has active components that cannot perfectly combine a signal. And by the way, the active components are why it runs hot as another reviewer mentioned but it seems to be well ventilated.
The Wii showed up slightly brighter and showed the graphics slightly fuzzier but it's a Wii... you don't buy it for the graphics. That's not to say the graphics are just barely acceptable; they really aren't too bad at all. Adjusting your monitor's brightness and contrast settings will work much better than the device's own options. I've played Mario Kart, Super Mario Galaxy, and deBlob with it so far and never had to squint or slow down because of this device's graphics and that's all that I need. The major concern with this one is that things in the distance seemed to become indiscernible more quickly than they do on a TV and the background's motion blurring can become overwhelming and dizzying if the camera turns very quickly. I say this with deBlob in mind specifically where you roll around and the camera frantically tries to follow you.
As far as the XBOX 360 goes, I wouldn't recommend using this device because of the high quality graphics; that's where I draw the line on degrading graphics since that's what the 360 is all about. I don't really account this into my rating because the 360 already has a specific cable to connect it to a monitor. I've used that 360-only cable on quite a few games on the same monitor and the output is much much better with it. If anyone reads this for XBOX 360 alone, get that cable instead of this GameBox and you will be much happier with the results for a much cheaper price.
As far as the classic systems N64 and SNES, there's not much to degrade since the graphics were never amazing but I've played Starfox (SNES), Donkey Kong Country (SNES), Starfox 64, Gauntlet Legends, Diddy Kong Racing, Mario Kart, 1080, etc. and found no problems with the graphics. Most of these games involve quick motion at some points but the motion blurring has never affected the gameplay in any way. 1080 Snowboarding, for example has some blurring behind the character when you make quick turns but it doesn't get in the way of the action at all. That blurring may be more noticeable when trying to follow the path of a small object like a ball as another reviewer mentioned. The image does fill the screen when I believe it should be 4:3 but I don't notice the stretching much at all until there's a pan-around cinematic. It's roughly equivalent to the stretching by putting a 4:3 game system on a 16:9 TV (except widescreen monitors are 16:10 ratio). These old systems give much better results than the new generation systems that have amazing graphics to retain.
The PSP requires progressive scan to play games and amazingly, this device did accomplish this with some time playing with the menu though I doubt anyone is buying this to hook up a PSP. The output definitely didn't fill the screen, however, and it was slightly off center but the graphics were fine and it was still bigger than a PSP's screen. You may be able to get better results if you play with the options some more, it wasn't too important to me but I did try several games on it with good results.
Another confusing issue to me is the lack of an instruction booklet. If you're not familiar with video input/output types and options, I can see this device being a severe frustration. Knowledge like YPbPr meaning HD input and CVBS meaning composite video (AV) will help you navigate the menus much easier. To be honest, I didn't know all of the information though and got some things working with trial and error and patience with the slow menu controls.
If you get output from AV input and it's in black and white, try checking your video options and change it to CVBS instead of SVideo.
And finally, I have absolutely no idea what the volume controls do. I've pushed those over and over and as far as I can tell, they do absolutely nothing other than help you to work with menus when needed. This shouldn't be a major problem if your speakers already have their own volume control as my computer speakers did.
Overall, this GameBox works well if you just want to play your games on a monitor and don't mind a bit of graphics degredation. It works very well with my widescreen monitor. It's ideal for playing older game systems but is still very able to play the current generation of systems with more noticeable quality loss (for those who don't mind this). Expect to spend some time figuring the menus out and configuring it for your monitor, but this is really only a one time adjustment that isn't required every time you want to play a game.
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