The EON XBHD Original Xbox HD Adapter is a disappointment.

unacceptable thank you for being real about your review.

190 dollars is a lot of money, so I'd expect this to work flawlessly. If i have to jump through any additional hoops to make something look decent, then it's not a 190 dollar product, full stop.

I'd bet raising the brightness won't even fix the black levels. The detail is likely already lost, so you'll just end up with the same crushed blacks, but they'll be grey instead. Thanks for the objective review MVG.

Respect for getting a product from the company and giving an honest review. There's not enough of that on YouTube.

Some of those games look so dark that you might as well just turn off the screen and save yourself the $189.99 so you can emulate the XBHD experience for free.

It looks like they are incorrectly converting limited range YPbPr to full range without applying full luma correction curves. Or they have incorrectly flagged their HDMI output stream as full range when it's intended to be limited.

If they're charging $189.99 just for a device that can enable hdmi on an old console, the consumer has every right to nit-pick at clear faults. Glad you were honest about your thoughts on this; glad there are other cheaper & better options out there

It's a great idea on paper; a no fuss solution for LAN setups that's easily portable to move from event to event for fast and easy multiplayer gaming. However with the price tag and poor video output, you could buy cheaper and better solutions for 4 different Xboxes and still have money left over for pizza.

HDMI protocol defines 2 options for dynamic range and black levels: * Limited dynamic range (normal black levels, 16-235) - designed for consumer TVs, used as default in DVD, Blu-ray, game consoles etc. * Full dynamic range (low black levels, 0-255) - designed for PC monitors. EON XBHD is probably using the wrong full one, but it should be using limited dynamic range. There is sometimes an option available in TV settings to switch between the two modes, if it's supposed to be used as a PC monitor. You can try setting TV to PC mode and see if it helps. It's should be an easy fix for EON XBHD developers to set it to limited dynamic range for HDMI out.

This looks like a really classic problem of a video signal being incorrectly interpreted on input as “legal” video range and displayed as full range. Likely something in a hardware chip they used, which may or may not be correctable. This issue would clip image detail in the low end dark areas and the high brightness areas that adjusting the monitor wouldn’t fully rectify. There are a number of articles on video legal ranges than can explain it better than I can.

I'd love to have you review our Xbox2HDMI like Bob has from RetroRGB! It'd be a great honor!

My cheap-o N64 to HDMI has similar issues with darkening the image. However, it was only $10. You'd think for $190 the EON XBHD would do a better job.

ElectronShepard's Xbox2HDMI seems like the best solution for this kind of device. It's a shame Eon dropped the ball so badly here.

How often do you see a youtuber being brutally honest about a product they received for free? Respect.

Thank you for making this. People out here like Adam koralik giving endless praise to this stuff..

4:59 - Naw man, you're spot on. That clip from Halo is nearly unplayable. It's crazy dark and there's no way I'd enjoy squinting through that. Thanks for an honest review! They absolutely need to go back and fix this.

Quick note regarding compability, PAL models do NOT support HD (720p/1080i) out of the box. The MS dashboard doesn't support it for Pal regions. You will need to use a modded Xbox and either the Enigma Video Switcher application (or the other alternatives), or flash a NTSC bios. Could be good to know assuming they fix the issues down the line. :)

Love the honest review... hopefully a FW update is possible. I'm assuming since this is plug and play though it's just converting the analog signals. I'd hope there is some kind of "gain" to adjust internally during the A/D conversion

I wrote this on Macho Nacho/Tito’s review and I’ll say it here. I understand the HDMI features, but the network/switch/hub features really aren’t solving a problem in my opinion. An unmanaged switch can easily be found second hand either for free or for under $5 and is a snap to set up.

Something you didn't mention in the video is that the greyscale is WAY off. I watched this video via a Roku hooked up to an ISF calibrated display, and you can clearly see the original has correct neutral greyscale balance on parts of the image that are supposed to be grey, and the device's output has a blue-green tint added to the same parts of the image. So it isn't just brightness. And it's not just a little off, it's WAY off, because it's very clearly noticeable to the naked eye.