HDMI to VGA HD15 (Male) Cable

by DekCell

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B001OLCHJ6
• Average Customer Review: 1.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (68 customer reviews)
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  • #33 in Electronics > Accessories & Supplies > Audio & Video Accessories > Connectors & Adapters
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 2, 2001

Product Description

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 high-definition DVD player, HDTV receiver, projector, A/V receiver, Playstation system. The cable supports high-definition resolutions up to 1080p, provides the highest quality picture and clear sound.

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138 of 143 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars DO YOUR RESEARCH!!!, April 21, 2011

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Jimmy P - See all my reviews

This review is from: HDMI to VGA HD15 (Male) Cable (Electronics)

What everyone needs to understand here is that you need to research before you buy. This product is not meant to take a digitanl signal and allow you to connect to an analog display, or vica versa. This cable does not do a digital to analog, or analog to digital, converion. Most HDMI devices are going to be digital, while most VGA devices are going to be analog. You cannot connect the two with a cable. You have to actually convert the signal. This cable is meant for the very few devices that can actually output analog from the HDMI connector. This is very rare and you should pretty much always assume your HDMI connection cannot support analog, and your VGA connection cannot support digital.

Do some research on your devices. The manual should tell you what is supported on each connector.

98 of 121 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Incorrect assumptions, April 17, 2009

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B. K. Bjerke "Computer Engineer" (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HDMI to VGA HD15 (Male) Cable (Electronics)

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.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Buyer beware, January 24, 2011

By 

Rich Finnigan - See all my reviews

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This review is from: HDMI to VGA HD15 (Male) Cable (Electronics)

If you are trying to use this to connect your laptop or pc to your tv, and your only output is a VGA port, this will not work! VGA is an analog signal, and HDMI is digital. You cannot convert analog to digital with a cable- you need to purchase a converter to do this. There are several on here for about $40, and some that range up to $300 or more. I do not know if the $40 ones work, but I can tell you the $6 cable certainly does not! I don't know if this can be used to connect an HDMI out to a VGA in, so certainly do your research before buying this. It doesn't cost enough to worry about sending it back, but if we had spent much more on this, I would be returning it today.