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HDMI to VGA HD15 (Male) Cable
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understand that HDMI = input and VGA = output
(5 out of 5) by G.H. Delre on Jul 17, 2009 (USA)People seem to be buying this item expecting it to be VGA to HDMI, or bi-directional. This was made to send the video from your HDMI source, to your VGA display. If you're trying to convert a VGA signal to an HDMI signal, you need to convert and get a proper cable.. much more expensive. ..but stop marking this thing poorly because you don't know what you're buying. It's not a bad product, it's just getting bad reviews from people who can't do research or for that matter, read.
19 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
Incorrect assumptions
(2 out of 5) by B. K. Bjerke on Apr 17, 2009 (Chicago, IL)An HDMI cable is purely digital (1's and 0's) while VGA is completely analog (waves). You will most likely be wasting your time purchasing this product unless your device has some magical way of outputting analog signals through its HDMI port. The product still gets 2 starts for being honest and saying don't try to connect your VGA port on your desktop or laptop computer to an HDMI port on your display, but I seriously doubt that it will work in any situation.
The idea solution to someone looking for a way to do this is if they had a an HDMI cable attached to your device and a signal converter (these are currently north of $100 as of the time of this review, closer to $170) and then a VGA cable going out from that to your monitor, similarly this is how you could go from your computer to converter box to HDMI to TV.
If you're wondering "Well, DVI is a digital interface and there are cables that go from VGA to DVI and it works perfectly fine!" its because the DVI interface actually has half analog pins (DVI-A) and the other half is digital, which is how it is capable of taking VGA signals. HDMI cables do not have any compensation for this conversion at all.
The idea solution to someone looking for a way to do this is if they had a an HDMI cable attached to your device and a signal converter (these are currently north of $100 as of the time of this review, closer to $170) and then a VGA cable going out from that to your monitor, similarly this is how you could go from your computer to converter box to HDMI to TV.
If you're wondering "Well, DVI is a digital interface and there are cables that go from VGA to DVI and it works perfectly fine!" its because the DVI interface actually has half analog pins (DVI-A) and the other half is digital, which is how it is capable of taking VGA signals. HDMI cables do not have any compensation for this conversion at all.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
This does not work.
(1 out of 5) by Latasha Mccoy on Sep 13, 2009I bought this cable to connect my new Dell Mini 1010, which only has HDMI out, to older projectors with only RGB/VGA/component/S-video in. It does not work. I attempted to get a signal through my RBG/VGA-in on both my Sony Bravia HDTV and older projector but found no success. (Note: the Mini did display on the HDTV when going HDMI out to HDMI in, using a different cable).
12 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
Don't believe reviews
(3 out of 5) by Randy L. Smith on Apr 11, 2009Bought this item hoping the user review was correct and the product description was wrong. The product description is right. It does not let you go from a computer/laptop to an HDMI input on your TV. Can't think of any reason why you would want to go from an HDMI device to a computer monitor but I guess that is what this is for.
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
doesn't work...
(1 out of 5) by C. J. Gordon on May 1, 2009 (Simi Valley, Ca United States)The product description states, "This HDMI to VGA HD15 (Male) connects your HDMI-equipped device, HDTV (NOT FROM COMPUTER OR LAPTOP) to your monitor. The HDMI-equipped devices include...Playstation system"
Well, I connected this cable from my PS3 (in the above list) to my VGA input projection monitor (ACER XD1150) and the projector does not recongnize the signal. Based on the description I can think of no reason why this wouldn't work. The ACER takes the same exact input and works the same way as a computer monitor. The PS3 is an approved device. Yet, the signal is not recognized. My only conclusion is that the cord fails to convert the signal from HDMI to VGA making it useless.
Well, I connected this cable from my PS3 (in the above list) to my VGA input projection monitor (ACER XD1150) and the projector does not recongnize the signal. Based on the description I can think of no reason why this wouldn't work. The ACER takes the same exact input and works the same way as a computer monitor. The PS3 is an approved device. Yet, the signal is not recognized. My only conclusion is that the cord fails to convert the signal from HDMI to VGA making it useless.