AVerMedia Video Adapter, Composite / RCA / AV to HDMI Output (ET111)

This AVerMedia ET111 composite->hdmi converter is fast (introducing no measurable lag into the display chain) and has passable picture quality, though there are haloing/ringing artifacts and uneven shading of what should be uniform red areas. However, severe vertical flickering renders this product worse than the generic Chinese converters that are 1/3 the price.I've included pictures showing the output of my 1990 SNES running Super Mario World across all three converters - the  Orei XD-940 , the generic Chinese  GANA Mini AV2HDMI , and this AVerMedia ET111 - with a picture of an emulator's output (with only basic pixel tripling - no upscaling filters used) for comparison. All are displayed on the same 1920x1080 144hz monitor; the monitor has a 1ms response time and I have the various motion-smoothing options all disabled. The camera used was on manual white balance so that colors would be consistent and ISO 800 speed to again prevent any artificial introduction of blurring.Aspect RatioOrei: FAIL | av2hdmi: FAIL | AVerMedia: FAILAll three converters output a picture stretched into 16:9 aspect ratio, instead of properly pillarboxing the signal to preserve the 4:3 input. Therefore, I forced the emulator's output to also be stretched to 16:9, so that it would still provide an appropriate basis for comparison of picture quality.Picture Quality - Mario SpriteOrei: FAIL | av2hdmi: Adequate | AVerMedia: AdequateThe Orei XD-940 produces a jagged mess of heavily aliased, exaggeratedly-sharpened pixels that obliterate and mask detail. There is notable haloing/ringing wherever there's even moderate contrast. Red shading of Mario's cap is very uneven.The generic AV2HDMI looks about as aliased as the original source image. The color intensities are mostly accurate. However, the red has occasional spots of purple and often smears past the black border.The AVerMedia ET111 produces lines that are slightly smoothed from the original. There's faint haloing at high contrast points, and the red cap is unevenly shaded and too little pale in intensity. Better edges but worse colors than the av2hdmi.Picture Quality - TextOrei: FAIL | av2hdmi: FAIL | AVerMedia: FAILThe Orei XD-940 is so heavily aliased that it's difficult to read the text. What should be an even red shade within the letterforms is diagonally striped from extremely dark red to almost white. However, the 'x' is (mostly) white, with only subtle hints of color on what should be pure white strokes.The generic av2hdmi again has problems with red tones smearing past borders of where they belong, but at least the red is mostly uniform - except for a few purple and blue tones where there should be none. Most notably however, the 'x' is a vivid rainbow without a single white pixel to be found. Blue, green, yellow, red, and purple all make appearances where there should be only white.The AVerMedia ET111 also again has uneven red shading. Like the av2hdmi, the 'x' is a rainbow instead of properly being all white.Picture Quality - MotionOrei: FAIL | av2hdmi: FAIL | AVerMedia: Good / FAILAs the output from the emulator makes clear, these little bouncing birds above Yoshi's house keep the same shape when they're moving midair as when they're sitting still; there's no animation change when they jump. This makes them ideal for comparing stationary and moving sprites.The Orei XD-940's picture gets dramatically altered when a sprite is moving even slowly. The birds are awash with jagged pixels when stationary, but suddenly are smoothed into almost a pure triangle of un-aliased black edges when they hop. All other detail (e.g. white eyes and orange beak) is lost when they are in motion. A strange line appeared at the base of moving bird sprites.The generic av2hdmi behaves similarly. The stationary birds are a mix of blue, green, yellow and red where there should be just yellow. Once moving, the bird becomes almost pure red, with very smooth edges! And again the red extends beyond the bounds of the black borders. The white eyes and orange beak are at least preserved here though. Like the Orei, a strange line appeared at the base of moving bird sprites, not seen from the AVerMedia or emulator.The AVerMedia ET111 actually does quite well in this test. There's a little bit of color shift toward orange, but for the most part all the detail is preserved and no smoothing is happening. HOWEVER: the AVerMedia ET111's output FLICKERS. A very strong flicker up and down, both on a LCD monitor and a Plasma TV, very easily noticed even ten feet from the television. It appears no deinterlacing is being done and that the AVerMedia ET111 just sends the first set of lines in one frame, then the second set of lines the next frame, alternately. Very distracting and really results in this product instantly failing when considered overall quality.Latency (lag)Orei: Poor | av2hdmi: Adequate | AVerMedia: ExcellentThis was measured with a camera running at 187 fps, with at least 10 measurements taken for each converter. Then, each data set was compared using a one-way T-test (I only care to detect if a converter is statistically significantly slower than a baseline measurement of the monitor, not if it's faster) with predetermined threshold of significance p<.05. I report the delay added by the converters below, i.e. after subtracting out the latency from my monitor alone.Again the Orei XD-940 is the worst performer, adding an average of 40 ms delay to the display. Statistically significantly slower (p=.000036). This is roughly equivalent to 2.5 frames of lag at 60 fps.The generic av2hdmi performed passably, adding an average of 15 ms delay to the display. Statistically signficantly slower (p=.0064). This is roughly equivalent to 1.0 frame of lag at 60 fps.The AVerMedia did not delay the picture, adding only 0.3 ms on average. This amount was not statistically significantly different than my baseline readings for my monitor (p=.48).Final ResultsOrei XD-940: 0/5. | generic av2hdmi: 1/5 | AVerMedia ET111: 2/5 (but disqualified due to flickering)I can not recommend any of these products.If I were forced to use one, however, I would opt for the generic Chinese av2hdmi converter. It was at least capable of actually flat-red-shading something without banding, and is approximately 1/3 the price of these competitors.

As TV’s are going HDMI only and are ditching the YPbPr inputs, I needed something to be able to play my Nintendo Wii with the new TV’s. I have the official Nintendo branded component plug for the Wii. I plugged the component plug into this AVerMedia Video Adapter (ET113) and into the TV’s HDMI input using a generic HDMI cable, and plugged the USB power supply into the back of my Samsung TV.The results are very good.Picture: The colors and resolution are preserved nicely. Everything runs smoothly without any screen shake or errors. Score: 10/10Sound: Sound is transferred nicely. I played it for hours and have not had any sound errors, no humming noises, no crackling or popping noises, and no sound interruptions. Just clear smooth stereo audio with a stereo source. Score: 10/10Lag: I do not have any measurement equipment to be able to measure lag. I have however played games with it and did not notice any lag. Score: I don’t notice any lag/10Options: Using my Wii and it’s YPbPr cable, I have tested both 480p progressive scan mode, and 480i interlaced mode. The converter successfully converted both signals into digital audio and video, and out to the 1080p TV through one HDMI cable. The TV lists that the signal it is receiving is a 480p or 480i signal respectively depending on the Wii’s settings, this means that the ET113 is only converting the signal from analog to digital, It is not up-scaling the signal to a higher resolution, thus it is your TV’s job to upscale that signal to 1080p. This is not a bad thing for most TV’s as long as your TV can handle a 480 resolution. I have not tested any 240p signals with this, but since it does not upscale I imagine it would not work right with most TV’s for the purpose of retro gaming, of the 240P nature. I have not tested this out to know for sure, but if that is what you are looking for then I would recommend a upscaler like the RetroTINK-2X which can make old NES games run great on modern TV’s (but can’t make 480p signals work like what the Wii sends out, ironically, so for people like me who want a signal converter in its purist form, the ET113 is perfect). I plugged a composite 480i signal from a vhs player into the Y (green) part of the ET113 and it seemed to do nothing. If you want to use a composite 480i cable, than you should buy the ET111 instead. Score: 9/10This works perfectly for my needs, and seems to be made of a very good quality. I give it a 10 out of 10 for my first month of use. If the device develops any problems, I will update this review. But so far everything works great.

The AverMedia Component video adapter is legit. I use with with a BenQ monitor as well as Sony HD CRT.Every console I've tried with it (PS2, PS3, PSPgo, Wii, WiiU) in every possible analog signal(480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p) has been converted to the equivalent digital HDMI signal in full colour mode with no upscaling or strange conversion like with other generic converters on Amazon.The image and video output quality is remarkable in its overall integrity, and the sound quality is excellent with no noise or clipping (looking at you, Wii & WiiU). Speaking of, this is an excellent way to get a full colour space signal out of the WiiU, since the WiiU's HDMI output only operates in limited colour space and can't be switched.This is probably the best value component video adapter you can buy for gaming. Other comparable adapters are easily over $100 or more.

Cumple con lo que promete, se evaluó el funcionamiento con un PS-2 y un PS-1, con un grato resultado en la pantalla, tanto el audio como video funcionan perfecto, contentos con nuestras consolas antiguas funcionando de nuevo.Si tu quieres convertir solo el audio no se podrá porque necesariamente debe contener una fuente de video para poder convertida a HDMI, Gracias.

No viene manual de instrucciones de uso. Ni software para convertir videos VHS a formato digital. Lo tengo conectado correctamente pero no se despliega ninguna ejecución en mi ordenador. Necesito ayuda para poder hacer funcionar este dispositivo. Gracias

Me gusto porque se nota la diferencia entre el video compuesto con el de video componente da mas resolucion y funciona con mi reproductor de dvd que alza el video progresivo al maximo posible y se puedan ver en version mutiregion el pero que le pongo es que tiene un retraso en que aparesca la imagen en el televisor..

Compre este adaptador para poder gravar video de un N64 con la capturadora de video Ripsaw y funciono. Este adaptador no escala la imagen ni la mejora es simplemente para poder conectar dispositivos AV/RCA a un puerto HDMI