Anyone have experience with this? I've seen these "cheap" cables: http://www.amazon.com/Wii-PS3-VGA-HDTV-Cable-Nintendo/dp/B0015MISAG in various forms. Reviews have differing results. Possibly need a monitor with SoG? I'm curious whether I should give it a shot. If I move out like I plan to, I won't be taking my CRT TV and won't be able to afford a new monitor (one with HDMI) for a while.
any old HDMI to VGA adapter should work just fine they usually split off the audio into L and R off the adapter
No, HDMI won't work natively with an analogue RGB signal, be it 15.6kHz RGB like you get from most older consoles, or VGA (640x480) and upwards. Any cable/device will need to be converting the analogue signal to digital as HDMI is purely digital.
it works the same way a DVI to VGA dose HDMI uses the exact same signal DVI dose just in a different connector and the DVI to VGA adapters work just fine even if someone has to go the long route of HDMI to DVI then DVI to VGA it will work just fine EDIT: apparently there are several flavors of DVI on that is all analog DVD-A one that is all digital DVD-D and one that supports both DVD-I gee thanks standards people how can something be digital if it is an analog signal -.-' i guess it could work on the same principal coax cable thats been a digital transmission for almost 10 years from the cable company's i have an analog tv and every now and again i see digital noise the blocking and corruption of a digital signal ever so often
Just to tidy up your mess (again), in case anyone is reading: no part of the HDMI signal is analogue, so a converter in this case is mandatory. DVI-A is indeed a legacy mode for analogue VGA connections, but if you try and run that into a HDMI socket you won't see a thing. Neither have anything at all to do with any kind of coax signal, I don't know where you're going with that.
Derp, Uh. There are DVI to HDMI adapters that work fine. I have one that I use from time to time and it goes from my GTX460(DVI) to my LCD(HDMI) and it even carries the audio from the DVI port (Surprising, I know) It might be worth it to slap a DVI to VGA connector to the DVI end and plug it into the VGA on the TV? You'd have to audio via the standard connector or Optical out though.
wouldn't work the HDMI to DVI is all digital VGA is all analog the hdmi only converts to DVI-D witch is the all digital version DVI-I might work also i dont know for sure but VGA will only work with one of 2 versions of DVI DVI-A its the analog version and DVI-I witch can support both digital and analog but CANT convert analog to digital or vis versa blame the standards people for the daffy duck DVI connectors
If you already have a component cable, maybe this is a better choice: http://www.dealextreme.com/p/ypbpr-component-video-to-vga-converter-22845
That was confusing, How come I can use a DVI to VGA connector on a DVI-D Port on my GPU and it works? Edit: You were right, I could find DVI to VGA adapters but they were only for DVI-A.
Pretty much. DVI has legacy fallback mode for VGA (DVI-A), HDMI does not, and does not support any analogue audio either. I did say this before but the post was deleted (which is becoming irritatingly common here again) thanks to angelwolf spouting off with the personal attacks as usual. Frankly, if someone's enough of a loon to call me names just because I happen to live in Europe then I'd rather the whole forum see his idiocy.
Well if his post is reported for moderation people can't really complain when it then becomes moderated and there is bound to be some collateral damage during the cleanup too. Perhaps I'm too harsh at times I guess but meh. I removed the out-of-the-blue personal/socialist attacks, temporarily banned him and sent him a nice polite message as well as a reminder of the rules to give him something to think about during his time out. I also showed him the way to the unmoderated thread if he chooses to return and doesn't mind making a fool of himself. As for PS3 to VGA... Why would anyone want this? I understand with older consoles you want to get the best visual exprience so go the extra mile with gadgets to give you the best quality possible, but when HDMI is pretty good as standard and it is just about everywhere (even my laptop has HDMI in/out) it makes such a connection moot? I'd have thought you could probably do HMDI to DVI then DVI to VGA though but I guess not.
I've used one of those cheap cables for connecting my PS3 to my projector. They work great, the only flaw I found was that it couldn't handle 1080p, only 720p.
That's interesting. I use VGA on my Xbox and it handles 1080p fine, so it's not like a VGA connector literally can't take that signal (though I do remember reading something about it being right at the edge of spec... I think I had trouble with a Macbook at that res in the past).
