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Question: My tv has component cables running through my ceiling. My new home theater receiver only has hdmi out. Will this play digital cable ok?
Document: This is a great product if you have an older LCD or a monitor LCD tv that has no HDMi port on TV. It will allow you to broadcast in HD if your cable company encrypts the signal and you are left using a MDI box. ( minature digital inverter) My MDI box only came withHDMi output port and audio r/l . Great product and very reliable. ***** stars ! Price is well worth it if you think about it.
Was looking to try to hook up a blu-ray to my older Mitsubishi splitting my hdmi output from my cable box...cable worked great, blu-ray not so much. Bought a new tv to remedy the problem
I needed to hook up my new DISH satellite receiver box to an older in wall component video cable that runs to a wall mounted flat screen TV and the Dish hopper system only had HDMI output that would not allow that connection. This converter did the trick and was a snap to install in seconds.
This unit does what it is supposed to do, which is convert an hdmi signal into a component a/v cable. However, it shifted my entire picture to the left. I have a 50&#34; tv and the picture is shifted to the left about 1 1/2&#34;. So I have a vertical black bar down the right side of the display, and I lose 1 1/2&#34; of picture on the left side.
I tried hooking my new HDMI blue ray player to this item and run component to my tv, because the hdmi port is broken. The sound worked but the screen was nothing but wavy lines. Do not by this device
Tried everything and it does NOT work. All new HDMI cable and Component Cables. Absolutely sure connections are correct. My only guess is copy protection HDCP keeping it from working or it just does not work. Don't waste your money like I have. Only reason I bought Amazon Fire and this box was to stream Netflix to a TV with only component connections (no HDMI). Now I have $150 in crap I will toss if I have to get a new TV.
I have an AV projector connected to a Yamaha receiver. Unfortunately, the receiver doesn't down-convert HDMI signals, and so my HDMI DVR, and Roku2 won't play on my projector. My AV DVD player worked fine though. I bought this to down-convert HDMI sources and it worked perfectly. I get clear picture on my projector at 720ppi. Didn't have to buy a new projector so I saved a few thousand dollars. I really can't complain :)
And it doesn't matter if I switch it to 480P resolution on the xbox output which my TV does support, the picture still does not fit on my tv screen. Now please keep in mind that all my other sources DVD players, cable boxes and other gaming consoles fit my tv screen just fine.For use with the Xbox One this is not a good solution.I am giving this 3 stars as this device may work just fine with other hdmi devices but it doesn't work with the Xbox one...
I needed to convert the HDMI output of my newer DirecTV HR24 receiver to component. That was to allow my Slingbox Pro HD to transmit the picture and sound to my tablet and phone wherever I might be. To accomplish this AND watch TV at home, I also installed a Sewell Premium 1x2 HDMI Splitter so that I could have one signal going to the TV and one signal going to the converter/Slingbox.Everything worked as I'd hoped.
Bought the item to play a Blu-ray through a normal tube TV with Component inputs. Hooked it up and the box did not work. Replaced the HDMI cables 2x and even used 3 different Blu-ray players and a second TV (with both HDMI and Component inputs). Even tried all the 480-1080 settings on the players, no luck. Now I am out of the return/replacement window by a few days. So there goes that idea and $50.
Answer: Well, I can say this adapter did convert the hdmi output from my Xbox One to component, but what I discovered is that this converter does NOT scale the image to fit the Tv's display. So I got a picture on my TV but I was missing about the last 3" of the display. This didn't matter if I set the output resolution from 1080p which my TV doesn't support or even if I selected a very low resolution of 480p which my TV definitely supports, the results were the same. So I learned if I were to keep using my existing 2001` Sony 57" 1080i HD TV, then I would need an adapter that runs about 4X the cost, one that does "scaling". They're out there, just my TV isn't worth the investment, I'd rather put that kind of money into a new HD TV. Hope that helps but you can do what I did, try it and worst case scenario you return it.