HDMI converter?

[awlp1972]

I have set up my Pioneer VSX 919 receiver with both Foxtel and Blu Ray input via HDMI. With this set up it only allows me to output via video via hdmi. Unfortunately, I have an old style TV with only component and scart inputs.

Am I somehow able to convert HDMI to component video. Can I just buy a cable that has an hdmi plug at one end and component video at the other, or is it more complicated than that? Many thanks for any assistance, it is very much appreciated !!

 

[TLS Guy]

I have set up my Pioneer VSX 919 receiver with both Foxtel and Blu Ray input via HDMI. With this set up it only allows me to output via video via hdmi. Unfortunately, I have an old style TV with only component and scart inputs.

Am I somehow able to convert HDMI to component video. Can I just buy a cable that has an hdmi plug at one end and component video at the other, or is it more complicated than that? Many thanks for any assistance, it is very much appreciated !!

It is a lot more complicated than that. Component is analog and HDMI is digital.

So first you would have to convert, but it is an illegal conversion. HDMI has built in DRM via HDCP codes to prevent piracy. So it it is a two way communication for continuous handshakes.

If you want to use HDMI you will have to buy a new TV.

SCART can not pass an HD signal.

If your receiver will not down convert to component, and a lot don't, then you will have to hook everything up via component.

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

I have set up my Pioneer VSX 919 receiver with both Foxtel and Blu Ray input via HDMI. With this set up it only allows me to output via video via hdmi. Unfortunately, I have an old style TV with only component and scart inputs.

Am I somehow able to convert HDMI to component video. Can I just buy a cable that has an hdmi plug at one end and component video at the other, or is it more complicated than that? Many thanks for any assistance, it is very much appreciated !!

http://www.amazon.com/Component-video-YPbPr-Converter-Up-scale/dp/B0016SN49Y/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1280673106&sr=8-3

http://www.amazon.com/Component-Video-Stereo-Audio-Cable/dp/B001IUQB2W/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1280673106&sr=8-1

 

[s162216]

You could use a HDFury adapter, they are fully HDCP compatible and provide component outputs. Their quite pricey though, £199.99 for the newest and best version (HDFury3). Don't bother with the original one though as it only has DVI.

http://dme.ghost2.net/hdfury/

 

[markw]

Huh?

http://www.amazon.com/Component-Video-Stereo-Audio-Cable/dp/B001IUQB2W/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1280673106&sr=8-1

This isn't like going from a 1/8" stereo mini plug to r/l Audio. This is more like going from an RF "F" type connector to an RCA analog audio. It may change the plugs but it won't change the nature of the signal.

I'm very curious how and where the HDMI digital to analog RGB/audio conversion takes place in this cable...

 

[TLS Guy]

http://www.amazon.com/Component-video-YPbPr-Converter-Up-scale/dp/B0016SN49Y/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1280673106&sr=8-3

http://www.amazon.com/Component-Video-Stereo-Audio-Cable/dp/B001IUQB2W/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1280673106&sr=8-1

We have had this before. It does not work and can't.

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

We have had this before. It does not work and can't.

Those bastards!

Selling things to honest folks that don't even work!

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

With this set up it only allows me to output via video via hdmi...

Unfortunately, I have an old style TV with only component inputs.

Hey wait just a minute, am I missing something here?

According to Pioneer, your receiver can output analog component video: http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/PUSA/Products/HomeEntertainment/AV-Receivers/PioneerReceivers/ci.VSX-919AH-K.Kuro?tab=B

So why not just hook the component video output from your receiver to the TV?

 

[Gustavo]

If your TV has component inputs only, how were you able to see video through HDMI?

 

[BMXTRIX]

I have set up my Pioneer VSX 919 receiver with both Foxtel and Blu Ray input via HDMI. With this set up it only allows me to output via video via hdmi. Unfortunately, I have an old style TV with only component and scart inputs.

Am I somehow able to convert HDMI to component video. Can I just buy a cable that has an hdmi plug at one end and component video at the other, or is it more complicated than that? Many thanks for any assistance, it is very much appreciated !!

Just hook up your Foxtel and BD player with component video connections. Until you get a new TV this is by far the least troublesome and highest quality means to get great video.

Depending on the device, you may be able to still send audio out via HDMI if lossless audio is something you are able to get with that receiver.

 

[markw]

Just hook up your Foxtel and BD player with component video connections. Until you get a new TV this is by far the least troublesome and highest quality means to get great video.

Don't virtually all Blu-ray devices currently limit component video to 480p for "copyright protection" reasons?

...dunno what a "foxtel" is , though.

 

[jostenmeat]

Don't virtually all Blu-ray devices currently limit component video to 480p for "copyright protection" reasons?

Maybe for DVD, but not for Bluray. BD, you get all kinds of choices, just not 1080p (up to 1080i). Some people actually have chosen their BDP in their ability to output 480i so that they can use outboard VP (I remember Panasonics would only go so "low" as 480p).

 

[BMXTRIX]

Don't virtually all Blu-ray devices currently limit component video to 480p for "copyright protection" reasons?

...dunno what a "foxtel" is , though.

I'm guessing a cable service provider of some sort for Foxtel.

BD is limited to 1080i video output of Blu-ray Disc across the component video outputs. With an older TV it is unlikely that 1080p resolution is supported within the TV to begin with.

DVD, on the other hand, is limited to 480p output. This would be bad if DVD was actually stored on the disc above 480p, but it is not. In fact, it's stored at 480i, then must be (properly) deinterlaced to 480p by the player.

I use component video for almost all of my connections throughout my home with a distributed video system and six displays. It works great for HD.

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

Don't virtually all Blu-ray devices currently limit component video to 480p for "copyright protection" reasons?

...dunno what a "foxtel" is , though.

I've connected my Denon 5308 to my Optoma HD81-LV projector using Component Video in the past, and it reads "1080i" as the Source on the Optoma.