Review on Multi-Functional HDMI To AV And S-Video Converter For High-Quality Media Viewing by Julio Avikunthak

I'm capturing home video via an old S-VHS deck and it seems to give me good S-VHS video conversion to HDMI which I then capture to my Mac using Quicktime. I see a bit of overscan artifacts at bottom few lines of video, but that could easily be my 30yo deck (but gives the captured video that old-timey look LOL) or stuff they used to add to analog video years ago that should have been captured because it was there. The captured video display is much better than I expected. (I'm actually very surprised the mechanics still work on my old VCR; guess that's a +1 for old Mitsubishi VCRs. Note I first inserted an old pre-recorded tape I was willing to sacrifice in case the mechanism ate it.) The only minus for the converter is that the audio plugs don't directly attach to the VCR (but it seems all converters have female plugs); but finding RCA patch cords (M-M) lying around was easy. So while the S-Video plugs right in, the audio plugs don't; make sure you have patch cords available.Update: After looking at some other direct VHS to USB converters, many reviews mentioned sound issues. In transferring a tape with 35mins of content, the sounds at the end still seemed synced. (Now if I could just go back in time and ask the next-door neighbor to not mower his lawn right then.). I tried both the 720p and 1080p switch positions and I find the 1080p has a few more artifacts from S-Video (and no, I wasn't expecting HD video, just wanted to make sure I was sampling the analog signal at a high enough rate (see Nyquist-Shannon)) than the 720p position so I'll convert all my tapes at 720p. And it seems that export from QuickTime at 480p was good enough because of the S-VHS source material and half the file size. Maybe I'll spend the 25bucks and try using an outside service and compare quality?