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Cables To Go - 40320 - 2M (6.5ft) Velocity HDMI to DVI Digital Video Cable (Blue)

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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
(5 out of 5)

Converts HDMI to DVI with HDCP

Jan 13, 2007 - By Gadgester (New York)

I bought this cable to connect my Playstation 3 to an HDTV set that has only DVI (I think it's DVI-I) but no HDMI. This cable works beautifully. Image quality is really good. The price just can't be beat.

You should be aware that while HDMI carries both audio and video, DVI is video only, so you still need to route the audio to your TV somehow. For example, I use an optical digital audio cable to do that (together with an expensive converter box as my old HDTV set doesn't have an optical input).

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
(4 out of 5)

Works but..

Mar 21, 2007 - By Seattlite (Seattle, WA)

I purchased this cable to connect a PC to Samsung S4095D HDTV. And the cable worked great; but.. be warned that connecting PCs to HDTVs (via DVI/HDMI) is fraught with lots of pain. The main problem is that the PC desktop is cut off so the borders are not visible; not a problem in movies, but totally breaks games.

While you will find lots of people on internet forums who have "made it work", I spent days twiddling drivers and settings and never managed to make it work. The difficulty in making this work seems to be some (undocumented) property of the HDTV. In my case, I assumed that "has HDMI port" meant that I could use this cable to make DVI work.

In the end I switched back to using a VGA cable which looks fine and worked the first time.

So, the cable worked and was cheap; but it may not be the right solution to the problem (connecting a PC to your HDTV) which one would think is its primary purpose of existence.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
(5 out of 5)

No problems at all!

Jun 27, 2007 - By Thomas Moudry (Rural Kentucky)

This cable was dirt-cheap and did exactly what I wanted it to do: connect my MacBook Pro to my TV. Couldn't be happier with the price or the quality.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
(5 out of 5)

YES!

Aug 5, 2007 - By CS (Indiana United States)

Just what I needed and much cheaper than what Best Buy would try to sell you. Hooked this up to my PC and 55 inch HDtv and it works great. Im at 1080P and it looks sensational. Ofcourse HDTV's always overscan computer input so I had to scale it back to 1836 X 1024 but who cares, it looks awesome and it fits the screen perfectly. Id definitely recommend it. Anyone who has had problems with their computer needs to blame either their TV or video card because this cable is not the problem.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
(4 out of 5)

Not for PC's or laptops

Aug 3, 2007 - By M. Mills (Seattle, WA USA)

Believe the other review about PC's or laptops. The cable might work fine for other home electronics outputting the correct resolutions but even with Windows Vista I couldn't get this to spit out the correct resolution. My video card should be more than capable of outputting a 720p compatible resolution but the cable/hardware recognition won't let me select the 1368x720 resolution.