Dayton SVC1 S-Video Jack To RCA Plug Converter

I've seen a number of S-Video to Composite (RCA) male adapters with very low product evaluations. This one is quite the exception, both in quality as well as fast shipping by the vendor. There's not a lot one can evaluate about an adapter plug other than appearance, durability, and quality of signal, but in all three areas this appears to be a top notch product. Video quality does not appear to have suffered at all, despite going through an adapter after a very long (15 foot) S-Video cable.We had to replace our old DVD/VCR recorder and the new one does not have S-Video input (one of three options as output from my computer video card). Of course the digital output goes to the computer monitor, and I'm no longer using the SVGA output. It was easy to run the long S-Video cable from that output to the DVD/VCR recorder, thus allowing recording from the computer on a few rare occasions that we wanted to do so. With the length of the S-Video cable, I was already concerned about loss of signal, and was even more concerned about it when I had to put in an adapter. Simply not a problem.The appearance certainly looks professional, regardless of where it might be made, and there is no hint of anything lacking durability-wise. So this gets 5-stars - something we only pass out when something tops out with respect to our hopes/expectations of a product. And the vendor, CablesOnline.com (Atlantic Computer Tech), is tops on this too. The invoice was professional looking, there was a small insert with a customer service email address and phone number, as well as their direct URL. They mention that they have over 5,000 items in stock, and also do special cable orders. Some may see that as just self-promotion, but I found it helpful to know that they have a very large variety of in-stock items - good to know for the future, perhaps.Would I do business with them again either through Amazon or direct if needed? No question, unlike my local experience with a big-box store I'll simply call "WorstBuy," when I tried to get an adapter locally the other night. They promised me they had the item in stock, and the customer no-service rep said she had one in her hand (that was after seven different attempts to reach ANYone - busy, hung up, no answer, transferred with no pick-up, etc.). When I got there, it was in fact an S-Video to composite adapter, but the RCA end was female, not male that I very clearly specified and asked for verification. They don't even carry the male RCA S-Video adapter! Their fix? Buy a composite video cable with two male plugs and put yet another patch in the line, plus the added expense of a cable I didn't want or need (typical of almost every experience I've ever had at "WorstBuy"). In short, it was well worth waiting less than a week to have this plug through Amazon - ordered it on Saturday, had it in our mailbox Thursday. Considering they wouldn't have processed it until Monday, having it arrive through regular USPS delivery just three days later was impressive - and at a reasonable shipping/handling cost.A simple little inexpensive, but necessary adapter plug resulted in a nice buying experience (with nice results minutes after it arrived). As for "WorstBuy" - I very reluctantly went in last Saturday to attempt to get this adapter. I won't waste my time with that place again - they're consistently awful. Amazon comes through once again, with the help of CablesOnline/Atlantic Computer Tech. (And no, I don't have any affiliation with that vendor - hadn't even heard of them before last Saturday.)

If this little converter is what's needed for your application, it'd does the job completely. Coming off a LONG s-video cable run from a Directv HD receiver with the HDMI being already used and not wanting the extra cost of a HDMI amplifier or re-running that long of a HDMI cable for this application it was perfect. Of course the picture quality is downgraded form a HDMI signal but on a smaller screen or just for a lesser cost use it is great. And can you beat the $$$$ ??

Our new HD Tivo Premire Elite doesn't have an S-Video out, so instead of switching to a composite cable, I ordered this converter.I plugged this converter into the composite out of the Tivo, plugged an S-video cable into the back of the converter. The other end of the s-video cable went to a tube TV. I did not expect the same quality as when I was using an s-video out from my old Tivo, BUT the picture this converter provides is drastically inferior to the picture an unconverted composite to composite connection would provide.At only $2, it's not even worth returning. Save your time and look into another solution for your connection.

What more is there to say than, it works. My current video set up makes it hard to hook my laptop up to the TV using the Svideo port. However, the RCA plus are right there in front. This converter works great.

This converter did not work for me. I originally wanted to use it to connect my S-vid output on my media computer through my Pioneer A/V box which only had RCA plugs. All i got was a bunch of diagonal lines on the TV.Tried connecting directly to the TV's RCA video input and got the same diagonal lines. Svideo from the computer to the S-vid input on the TV worked fine, so it looks like this converter doesn't work. It came from Hong Kong and took three weeks to get here. oh well

Didn't give me the video quality I was expecting but it did work. I did end up purchasing a different adapter that had better reviews and cost a little more money. I wouldn't but the Dayton converter again.

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. 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. All three had very good pictures. It beat my RF converter hands down, was easier to use, and shipped fast.

worked perfect exactly what I needed for my lame really old tv the doesn't have s video so I ran