Digital to analog? doesn't work
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I was also looking around and this cable seemed to be exactly what I was looking for, it went from an HDMI input to a VGA output... Surprisingly, it even looks like a well-made cable, but unfortunately, doesn't work at all...

I purchased this to connect HDMI equipment to an EPSON projector that I have, which unfortunately doesn't have an HDMI input on it, only a VGA. According to the description of this cable, that is exactly what it is supposed to be used for, but it DOES NOT WORK!
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I sent these to my father.  I had no idea there was a difference between analog and digital ones.  When I went to visit them recently, they gave them to me and said they had someone come hook them up and they couldn't be hooked up because they don't work with their television (which is digital).  Now it's too late to send them back so I'm stuck with an expensive, useless product.
I just think it should have been made clear that these were for analog televisions and not compatable with digital televisions.
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no output on either HDMI or analog. They swapped it for a new one, it doesn't work either (tried many different cables, tried multiple hdmi ports on 3 different TVs - no workie)
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i bought this to convert the digital output of my cable box but it cannot convert dolby digital. works only on LPCM.
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Plugged in all the cables, plugged in the power cable, NOTHING.  Evidently there is more to converting digital optical audio to analog audio than just buying a converter and plugging it in as I did.  I read several posts from others that had the same experience and it seems that if the output is Dolby the converter may or may not work..
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I have an old video camera, and need these to convert to my new digital camera, I connected these to my new system and not working at all, not sure why
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Mine didn't work. It would now pass any signal to the output ports. Im returning it. Pretty disappointed as the features seems promising. Someone needs to come up with a splitter with a display showing what if anything went wrong
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I've had two of these, and both ended up with the same problem - the digital read went out.  I've tried replacing the battery, but that didn't help.  I think there is something wrong with these, and will look for something better.
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The analog part works ok. the digital part is useless. Horribly confusing to use. never have figured it out, even with instructions. Had to give it away. " kids love toys like that". Junk.
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Set up unit and tried to copy slide to digital.  Picture would not focus,  Tried several different groups of slides and none focused !!!  Packaged  unit up and mailed back according to instructions am waiting for refund !!!
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I bought this to connect an apple tv box to an older style tv. The tv was hd, 720 but only had vga and rca jacks. It did not work. I'm confused why. The best as I can understand it is that this device is not actually changing the signal from digital to analog. The hdmi is digital and needs to go through a converter to turn it into an analog signal. Whats the point of this thing? All its seems to do is connect pins to pins in a different form. Is there any such thing as an analog output that would use an hdmi connection. In which case maybe this device could be of some us. Otherwise, as I suspect this device is not useful. Other peopl's reviews do say that it worked so maybe there are some situations where hdmi is digital. In any regards this should be stated in the description of the device.
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I had a cable box and windows 8 pc to connect to the single hdmi input on our tv. The tv is high def ready but does not have a digital tuner. Hooked up the cable box to the switch and the windows 8 computer. cable box played fine, the device did switch to the pc input as described but I could not get a picture from the computer. Trying to determine if it was the switch or something else, I bypassed the switch and connected the computer directly to the tv and got the same result of no picture. I think the switch works fine but you cannot feed a digital hdmi signal into a tv or device that does not have a digital tuner. The cable box from our cable company converts their digital signal to analog so it will work on any tv.
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For me at least, the unit I received had a completely different front panel, and the only sound input on the back is a 3.5 mm mini-plug. Yet had the same model number. No digital inputs whatsoever. It appears as though some people have received the correct item, and some have received the useless piece of crap that I did. Unless you want to plug into the headphone jack on your TV (which mine does not even have) and not have digital sound, stay away from this until such a time as Amazon corrects it.
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This is a bad news/good news review. After wasting an hour trying every conceivable cable combination to make sure it wasn't a bad cable for my Sony Blueray, I found this tip elsewhere and got it to work (of course, not in the instructions):
Go into the Audio Settings of the Blu-ray player. Change the Digital Audio Output to PCM and BD Audio Mix Setting to Off.
1. Press HOME button on the supplied remote.
2. Go to Setup (ToolBox icon) by pressing the left arrow button.
3. Press the down arrow button and select Audio settings.
4. Select  Digital Audio Output and set it to PCM.
5. Select BD Audio Mix Setting and set it to Off.
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While the rest of this player seems to work fine, I found a problem when only analog stereo sound was plugged into the TV speakers.  DVDs begin playback with no dialogue track.  To fix this, you have to go into the player's internal menu system and change the digital out sound setting - even though there isn't any digital sound out connected!  It must be an internal bug, but it's annoying as heck to have to go change this setting back and forth every time you put in a DVD.
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Unfortunately this device won't work for some digital outputs, such as Dolby. I didn't know of the restrictions until I received it
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I just bought this, and already regret it.  I wanted to convert camcorder tapes to digital.  It loaded fine (contrary to some reviews), but slowly. However, it won't register video input - just gives me a green screen.  I've contacted customer support and will update the review if they can get it working.