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Question: I have an older (circa 2002) analog TV which has a built in digital converter with RCA connections.  Can I use this cable to connect my laptop, that has an HDMI connector to this digital/RCA connector TV?
Document: HDMI cables carry a DIGITAL signal, while component cables carry an ANALOG signal. While they both can produce an HD image, they are not the same signals! Simply splicing in a component cable with an HDMI cable will only make a cute cable that is in fact a lie.The ONLY way to connect a device with HDMI to an older TV with component video connections is by putting an HDMI to component converter in between them - this will convert the digital signal to an analog one.
If you are planning to purchase this cable to connect your HDMI output (say from blu-ray player) to an analog input device (say TV) this wont work. You will need to buy a HDMI to RCA converter instead. Just wondering what is the use of this cable as is.
This won't work without some kind of converter from digital to analog,  Bought to play digital streamer on non digital TV. Guess what? The cables connect alright but the streamer sending digital signal to analog TV. Looks like a good cable, but a waste of my money. Can't see many practical applications for this cable.
Bought this to connect an AppleTV to an older receiver.Did not work.This was not the fault of the cable - rather it was the fact that AppleTV uses a digital output signal - which cannot be split into analog - as this cable does.
What I was looking for was a cable to take an hdmi output from my blueray player and input to an older tv with only red/white/yellow A/V inputs.I didn't research properly and this product doesn't do that. It was low cost though.It appears that a converter box that takes the hdmi digital signal and outputs the analog red/white/yellow A/V signal is required. These units are rather pricey and all the units looked at had mixed reviews. So I gave up.
Well I bought this product just to take the $5 risk and see if it would work to connect my laptop to an older 480i TV that has component....well it didn't work but it does on my newer 1080p HDTV.Many people saw the beginning of the cord and the ends and assumed that it would automatically convert HDMI to component.
Do not waste your money on this cable if you have an older TV with RCA. The formats RCA and HDMI are NOT compatible straight corded. You must purchase a converter! However, this product may work with some HDTVs with higher resolutions. The  HDMI signal is at 480p by default, if your TV does not support 480p resolution from the RCA port, this cord will seem useless/ dud.
I tried to use it ro plug my dvd to my LCD. I just didn't work I need a digital - analog converter.
Not sure If I didn't read the description well or not. But this doesn't transition from HDMI to the conventional RCA connections on stereo receiver, nor an older television that doesn't have HDMI inputs. It is merely a video for high definition cables. It &#34;Doesn't allow you to covert from MDMI to RCA as it suggests.
Have to return this as it was NOT what I expected. Neither &#34;component&#34; nor &#34;composite&#34; was in the description. Have done research and learned that a component cable (this one) will NOT connect HDMI to an old RCA &#34;composite&#34; TV.
Answer: if your older TV has the red green and blue outputs it should work. the red yellow and white will not work