HDMI laptop to old TV

[hellokitty]

Hi everyone,

I have a laptop which I would like to connect up to an old TV to watch streamed shows on. It has an HDMI port as well as a VGA port. The TV has a couple of SCART ports.

My flatmate has a cheap ALBA DVD player (1 SCART port to the TV and a 5 RCA RGB AV) and a relatively new CISCO Virgin media box (1 SCART connected to the TV and and HDMI port).

First off, if I buy an HDMI cable and connect it up to the Virgin box, will this work?

If not, would an HDMI to 5 RCA RGB AV cable via the DVD player work. Failing that, what would you recommend, stopping short of a new TV?

Thanks for your help

---------- Post added at 15:36 ---------- Previous post was at 15:27 ----------

Hmm, Newby here posted this in the wrong place, I'll re-post in the right place!

[DocDutch]

to the forum 1st of all Hellokitty.

you could try to get a vga to scart cable like this on fleabay thats the best you can do if its not a LCD tv.

[hellokitty]

thank you! I was wanting to play about with the HDMI in the first instance, so via the Virgin box... any chance this would work?

[DocDutch]

no that wont work as thats HDMI Output not input.

[hellokitty]

ah. VGA to SCART it is then

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Thank you DocDutch

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by DocDutch

to the forum 1st of all Hellokitty.

you could try to get a vga to scart cable like this on fleabay thats the best you can do if its not a LCD tv.

Erm, that's scart to VGA, so would old be useful for displaying TV output on a monitor, not outputting a computer's display to a TV.

To go the other way, you need something like http://www.svideo.com/hdmi2svideo.html , but be prepared to pay the same as you would for a low end LCD..


Welcome to the forum, Hellokitty.

[heero_yuy]

Originally Posted by Stuart

Erm, that's scart to VGA, so would old be useful for displaying TV output on a monitor, not outputting a computer's display to a TV.

To go the other way, you need something like http://www.svideo.com/hdmi2svideo.html , but be prepared to pay the same as you would for a low end LCD..


Welcome to the forum, Hellokitty.

Most tube TV's (except those with frame stores, usually 100Hz models) only run at 625 lines and 50 frames, interlaced, unlike modern LCD's that will accept most inputs. Unless the laptop can output the same standard exactly the TV will not synchonise to it* and the standards convertor above is the only way.

*If you managed to force a tube TV to synchonise to a non-standard input it can be damaged.