Dingsun HDMI to RCA Converter HDMI to AV Adapter HDMI to Older TV Adapter for Apple TV,Roku, Fire Stick, DVD, Blu-ray Player ect.

I bought this unit to allow the HDMI output of my Roku 3 to connect to the video/audio inputs of my old Toshiba RD-XS32 DVR/DVD recorder. I haven’t had an analog TV for years but the old Toshiba DVR still works fine after literally thousands of hours of recording to its hard drive. This DVR is old-school analog 480i TV before everything went digital. Now, I’ll put up with a sensible amount of advertising, but some of the streaming services have gotten ridiculous with the quantity of ads interrupting the program content. (I’m looking at you, HxxU.) Recording a program for later viewing with the aid of the FF button certainly makes it more appealing. I was a bit concerned whether HDCP would prohibit passing the HDMI signal from the Roku, but so far I’ve had no problems at all. Probably because I’m in the analog world at the DVR input thanks to this Dingsun HDMI to RCA Converter. No doubt the same would work for those that still have a VCR…if there are any of those left and working, ha! Yes, the picture out of the analog converter is crummy compared to what we’re used to with HDTV. But hey, we all lived with Standard Definition picture quality for most of our lifetime until HD came along. Until someone comes up with a modern DVR that has an HDMI input, I’ll live with this solution. I have already taken care of OTA broadcast TV recording with the purchase of a Tablo DVR from Amazon; an amazing device that provides full HD picture playback of local TV broadcast. If only the Tablo had an HDMI input connector…that would be the dream! In the meantime, the Dingsun HDMI to RCA Converter allows me a degree of flexibility.EDIT: A few weeks later and now I’m disappointed. I noticed that the audio was starting to distort when the device was left powered up for more than a day. It sounded like a capacitor or amplifier stage was becoming non-linear. Momentarily removing power and then plugging it back in corrected the distorted audio for a while. But now the audio appears to be distorted all the time and restarting it isn’t working. So it’s useless. I’ll try and contact the seller for a remedy but I can no longer give this a 5 star rating.EDIT 2: I contacted the seller and explained the audio problem. He promptly provided a refund to me. So while I may have had an issue with the unit, the seller was a good. I’ll order another one and hope for better luck this time. I’ll move the rating up to 4 stars. [...]