Instruct: Classify a given review as either positive or negative.
Query: No better than the cheap ones. Complete ripoff

I bought this after initially buying one of the $29.00 ones and being horrified by the picture reproduction. This so called high definition converter is absolutely no improvement over the cheap one it might be even worse. The picture is horribly blurry so even ordinary size print is unreadable. The color reproduction is horrrendously poor a blue backround from your computer monitor is tourquise on the tv. The menu display dissapears if you do not use one of the function within A FEW SECONDS then you have to start over. EXCEEDINGLY ANNOYING. I could not get a signal from the s-video I didn't bother to see if the problem was a defective cable that came with it. If you wan't to get one of these converters get a cheap one for Pete's sake don't waste your money on this one. If you have a PC a video card with s-video out is the way to go. I don't know what the solution is for a laptop.