$19.95 Inc GST
An rca to hdmi box takes the three coloured plugs off the back of an old console, VCR or DVD player and puts the picture on a modern television. It is a powered converter, not a cable — composite video and HDMI are different kinds of signal, and getting from one to the other takes electronics.
Composite video is analogue. It carries the whole picture down one wire as a varying voltage, the way television worked for fifty years. HDMI is digital, and nothing in a passive lead can turn one into the other. Anything sold as an “RCA to HDMI cable” with no box and no power is either mislabelled or does not work.
That is why an av to hdmi converter has a power lead. Inside it there is a chip sampling the analogue signal, deciding what each line of the picture should be, and building an HDMI stream out of it.
The output is 1080p. What that does not mean is that the picture becomes high definition. Composite video carries roughly 480 lines on a good day — there is no more detail in the source, and no converter can invent what was never recorded.
What the 1080p output of an rca to hdmi box does is let a modern television accept the signal at all. Most sets made in the last ten years have no composite input; an av to hdmi converter gives them something they can display, scaled to fill the panel rather than sitting in a small window.
Expect it to look like what it is: a clean, stable version of a standard-definition picture on a big screen. Anyone promising more than that is selling something.
An av to hdmi converter will not make a VHS tape look like a Blu-ray. It will not sharpen a blurry camcorder recording. An rca to hdmi converter moves a signal between two formats; it does not improve the one it started with, and any listing promising otherwise is describing something that does not exist.
What it will do is make the picture usable — stable, correctly shaped, filling the screen, with the audio in the right place. On a 1990s console that is the difference between playing it and not.
The three RCA sockets are yellow for video, red and white for audio. They go into the box; the HDMI goes out to the television. An rca to hdmi box only works in that direction — it will not take an HDMI source and produce composite, which is a different converter entirely and a common wrong order.
Audio travels with the picture over the HDMI, so the red and white plugs feed the television’s speakers and nothing extra is needed. That is one of the quiet advantages of the box over the old approach of running audio separately into a soundbar.
The box runs from USB. A spare port on the television usually does the job, which keeps it to one less thing plugged into the wall. If the picture is unstable or the box will not start, the first thing to try is a proper USB wall plug rather than the television’s port — some sets drop their USB power when they change input.
This rca to hdmi box is stocked in Melbourne and ready to go — order before 10am and your av to hdmi converter ships the same day via Australia Post with insurance, backed by our 180-day warranty and a team who can confirm it suits the gear you own.
Stocked here, not shipped from overseas. Order your rca to hdmi box today and get the old console back on the television.
Compatible with any device that outputs composite video on the three coloured RCA plugs, including:
Direction: composite in, HDMI out. It converts one way only. An HDMI source into an old composite television needs the opposite converter, which is a different product.
What it needs from your television: an HDMI input, and nothing else.
What it needs from you: a USB power source — a port on the television, or any USB wall plug.
What is not included: the HDMI cable, and the composite lead if your device did not come with one.
Device and brand names above are used only to describe what the converter accepts.
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