Please answer in "Senior-speak": trying to connect a new Blu-ray Disk Player to a great old TV with yel/red/wh plugs. Do I need some kind of cable?
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you will need a yellow-red-white to yellow-red-white cable from this HDMI2AV to your TV. The complication is the power. The HDMI2AV is usb powered. I solved that with these items: OEM Motorola SPN5689A Dual Port Universal Wall Charger for Motorola Droid RAZR MAXX XT916 / XT913, Admiral / PAX XT603, Atrix 2, DROID RAZR XT912 /HD, Photon 4G, Triumph WX435, Theory WX430, Titanium i1x, i412, XPRT, Droid X2, Clutch + i475 and » Read More
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Thank you very much for your response. I finally got through and according to Panasonic, the converter and an HDMI cable are sufficient to complete the connection. Best wishes. CarrieM
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I purchase this for a friend, but I would look into a composite to composite (red, yellow, white) on both ends or composite to S-Video (If your tv has S-Video). Also I would check with your local best buy or Radioshack store.
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you will need a yellow-red-white to yellow-red-white cable from this HDMI2AV to your TV. The complication is the power. The HDMI2AV is usb powered. I solved that with these items: OEM Motorola SPN5689A Dual Port Universal Wall Charger for Motorola Droid RAZR MAXX XT916 / XT913, Admiral / PAX XT603, Atrix 2, DROID RAZR XT912 /HD, Photon 4G, Triumph WX435, Theory WX430, Titanium i1x, i412, XPRT, Droid X2, Clutch + i475 and Read More
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This unit will connect with component (the one with the red, white, and yellow plugs) or HDMI. If you have an older TV set that only has a coaxial connection, you can get an adapter plug very inexpensively at a shop such as Radio Shack. Just tell the serviceperson what you need.
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Depending on what you're hooking up, cables included suffice for DVD/Blu-Ray player. I wanted anything coming through cable box (regular TV) to come through soundbar, as well, so had to buy/add an Optical cable also. Get it from Amazon--about 1/2 the cost of electronic stores!
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Yess be carfull useing hot keys but your answer is yess thats the main reason that cable was made....might want to run it useing a switch..like to swop for dvd player are ruko .all plug in to inputs but 1 output.so u can slect what player u want to use to your non hmdi tv.m.player useing RCA plugs.Brian good luck
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I have a Blue Ray with digital audio output, the video is with HDMI, but I want to connect the audio to an amplifier. It works fine with DVD and Blue Ray disks, but when I want to play a home made CD of music, it distorts with noise. The device will convert your TV output to rca, sure, but I can't tell you if you will hear noise. Is cheap, so you can try.
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The HDMI cables are standardized. In my case I connected a Blu-ray player to an HDTV. But any HDMI port/device will connect with any other.Just one other point. The cable sheath is larger so you may have a tight fit on units with close quarters. My HDTV was a tight squeeze on port 1. Fortunately this TV has 4 ports and port 2 was an easy fit.
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Nope, not needed. Just run the subwoofer cable out of your receiver and plug into the left input on the subwoofer. Using the Y-Cord won't make your subwoofer play any better. It's always better to send the signal direct, rather than to break up the sound with a y-cord. This is why new bluray players now have two hdmi outputs. One goes straight to the T.V and one straight to your receiver. Why run to the receiver than back out to your T.V.? A straight shot to the location is always better. Stopping sound and then letting it back out through another cable always losses the quality of the sound. Same thing with Picture. Hope that helps!
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You just connect it directly to the tv. Using the optical cable works best if your tv has that capability
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This product is a cruel joke and a ripoff. You need a converter box to change an HDMI output to an analog signal, in order to have EITHER 1stGen HD red/green/blue (aka "YPbPr") OR non-HD red/white/yellow RCA connectors as inputs on the other end. It's not just a matter of having the right connectors on the ends of the cable. So there are basically three solutions to your specific problem, Letitia: 1) Get an HDMI-to-RCA (red/white/yellow) converter box for around $50-80. Make sure the product description says "digital-to-analog converter," otherwise you will likely get another ripoff item. (I found a KanexPro HDMI box for $60 that should work http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815820045&cm_re=hdmi_to_rca_converter-_-15-820-045-_-Product) 2) Put that money toward an HD TV (with HDMI inputs). Really, the purpose of the BluRay system is an HD-quality viewing experience. 3) Get a regular DVD player with RCA outputs. If you mostly rent videos and don't have a large collection of BluRay discs, and don't care all that much about HD, that's probably what I would do.
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If you have an "old" reciever that uses RCA inputs you will need a NeweR reciever that utilizs a HDMI cable. I said the same thing, then bought a newer reciver 3 years ago . hope this helps.
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If you're trying to use your existing home stereo than you only need to get a basic VGA cable (red, white, yellow). Just plugin the red/white to the "out" on the television, and plugin the red/white on the other end of the cable into any of the video inputs on your stereo receiver. You only need the red and white because those are the audio, you can leave the yellow unplugged as that is for video. Good luck! Michael
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I am glad to help if I can. I am an old man, so I understand the frustration. Also that is why I keep correcting myself -- too many mistakes these days.Here are a couple of other ideas at Amazon, using the TV adapter, but plugging the red and white cables into a 3.5mm headphone jack:3.5mm Male to RCA Female - 6 inchC2G / Cables to Go 40645 3.5mm Stereo Male To 2X RCA Female Adapter
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That's what I did with HDMI out from Direct TV Box to the Component Video and Sound in of an older TV. There must be the three component video jacks (RBG) in on the TV. A TV with just 1 yellow video in will not work.
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No, you would need an rca cable (red, yellow, white). It would also depend on your tv. Some newer tv's do not support rca but others use one of the component colors as the yellow in the rca protocol.
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Ok, there is another kind of digital cable connection you can use if your tv has that... Otherwise, the unit should come with a rca y connection where you connect a red and white to your tv and the other end is one black rca cable that goes into the back of the unit on the far left side. If you do not have a rca Y connector than try to connect either the red or the white wire only to the back of the unit where it says analog in.. That means the unit only has a mono rca connection on the far left side of the unit where it says analog in.
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RhymeBoy.G, Thanks for your post. I want to connect our satellite receiver, blu ray disk device, and plasma tv to the internet by cat5 cable. We have the following: dsl modem&gt;D-link wifi router&gt;desktop pc&gt;wifi laptops. I was not certain if I could connect the entertainment devices through a switch connected to the wifi router. Now I know this will work! Thanks.
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Can you please explain this? I have been using a tv from 1995 and use a co-axial cable to hook it up. I am not familiar with HDMI cable, so if this is the only type that plugs into the tv, how can I hook the other end up to my cable box and DVD player? The cable box is newer so may be compatible, but the DVD player is fairly old as well. I don't want to buy a tv that I can't use my DVD player with. Thank you!