I decided on the ElectronWarp in good faith of the many reviews and users online recommending it as the best plug-and-play analog to digital converter.
I knowingly paid 1,5x times the actual asking price in shipping without added import tax.
Total costs including shipping and added tax to Belgium (or the EU in general I presume) added up to about 4 times the listed price (or about €80/ $94 american), which seems wildly expensive in retrospect, but I expected.
I was willing to lay down that much for the promised improvements (in my case, artifact-free image output and clear sound) over a generic Wii2HDMI adapter, and hopefully, an ideal plug-and-play middle man for a later upgrade with an Mclassic.
Add to that the fact that comparable solutions were even harder to find and/or have shipped to me, or presumably more expensive.
However, the adapter I received does not output colors correctly. It's almost as if the colors (anything but black and white) are inverted.
Everything is either too green or too purple, while whites seems to be affected in brightness [see picture].
Furthermore I notice only very little improvement in clarity on my 65" 4K OLED.
I was having slight issues with color banding and blocky artifacts on white gradients before, which I contributed to the previous adapter, but it seems this rather's got something to do with my TV's internal upscaling or something, as the ElectronWarp does not improve these one bit.
I understand and have tried the "fixes" with fiddling with tv settings to get a better picture, but wasn't succesful.
Moreover this would've meant switching my TV to a display profile that introduces input lag, which this adapter promises to eliminate.
The adapter feels rather light in comparison to my Wii2HDMI (which, granted, is no correct measure of quality).
I do commend the feel of the plastics though.
The adapter fits rather stiffly in the AV port on my Wii, which feels both secure, but otherwise makes it hard (and a little scary) to remove.
One note: the plastic part around the HDMI port, or rather, the HDMI port itself, seems loose.
The only way in which the adapter seems to improve over my current solution is in eliminating sound peaking, which is just as easily, albeit not completely, counteracted by turning down the volume a little.
Please take note of the measures for returning and refunding an international shipment, which I really should've read before buying.
I simply don't see the value in paying what I estimate to be more than double the asking price just to get the product shipped back.
In conclusion, this expensive piece of e-waste has me feeling thoroughly unimpressed.
Having paid this much I'm suddenly really, really happy with my €10 second-hand Wii2HDMI.
[I changed the tone and rating in this review to better reflect my experience after having contact with Shane as you can read below.
I plan to update this review in accordance and with explanation.]