[JasonWatkins]

(since the 1st thread didn't display ..)

this has literally just popped in to my head so obviously i apologise if i'm behind with the time (which i probably am )

if i got a VGA to Component lead .. something in this ballpark

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/3M-VGA-to-...item3378f988d0

would that be good enough to hook up my bluray player to my HDTV VGA Port ?

I'm not particularly fussed about the intricacies of the depth of colour and stuff like that, but would it still give me a 1080i output ? (1080i is the highest mode my TV has...)

Again. sorry if it's a stupid question - i'm googling for an answer as well. And cheers

[rjb101]

It might do, but why would you want to

[Nigel Goodwin]

Originally Posted by JasonWatkins

(since the 1st thread didn't display ..)

this has literally just popped in to my head so obviously i apologise if i'm behind with the time (which i probably am )

if i got a VGA to Component lead .. something in this ballpark

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/3M-VGA-to-...item3378f988d0

would that be good enough to hook up my bluray player to my HDTV VGA Port ?

I'm not particularly fussed about the intricacies of the depth of colour and stuff like that, but would it still give me a 1080i output ? (1080i is the highest mode my TV has...)

Again. sorry if it's a stupid question - i'm googling for an answer as well. And cheers

It won't give you any output at all - VGA and Component are totally incompatible (in pretty well every respect).

These leads are sold on Ebay misleadingly - there are for a specific units that have Component outputs on a VGA style socket, VGA doesn't have this. As far as I'm aware it's for a particular game console?.

[Steve_Whelan]

It would be helpfull if we knew what make and model you had. Most panasonic commercial plasma displays can conect comp to VGA no problem, but this feature is disabled on allmost all TVs. Perhaps you will get more luck with a more specialist forum like www.avforums.com

[Chris Frost]

Jason,
the simple answer is No, it wont work. . Some of the reasons are touched on above, but others haven't yet been mentioned. Here why you're barking up the wrong tree...

1) Most Blu-ray players limit the component output to 480p/576p max when the Blu-ray disc has the HDCP anti-copy signal. You won't get 1080i

2) Unless the TV has the ability to accept Component via VGA (as mentioned above) then you're stuffed and you'll have wasted your money on a bit of junk.

3) Passive cables - a bit of wire with plugs on each end - do not convert signals from one type to another. They're pretty much all either a con or there's simply some confusion on the buyers part about what the signals actually are.


If you want to play BD movies in 1080i then you need a box that will take the HDMI signal from the Blu-ray player, convert it to analogue RGB at the same resolution and timing standard, and handle the HDCP issue so that the BD player will accept the TV with VGA as a valid display.

The best known such devices is the HD Fury @ approx £200. There are some simpler devices at £100 or so that will work reliably and consistently. Then there's the cheap Chinese stuff at under £40~£50 that often only works with non-HDCP triggering source content. That would be your DVDs and any home burned Blu-rays and any commercial film that aren't copy protected. TBH, with Chinese gear you get what you pay for.

[JasonWatkins]

Originally Posted by Chris Frost

Jason,
the simple answer is No, it wont work. .

Thankyou

For the record, I have a Sony BDP-S370 BluRay player and a fairly generic HDTV with a single HDMI, Component and VGA connections at the read.

I currently have the Player connected via component to component and it's fine - gives me 1080i resolution when I play a BD-R film.

The reason it popped in to my head earlier on was that when I was trying to play something on Lovefilm Instant, the picture was glitching and I was trying to unplug and re-plug the component leads and I remembered that when I had an Xbox 360, I'd connected it to my TV using the VGA lead that came with it and it made me wonder if it would work with the BluRay player.

But thanks everyone for your replies

[polkadotpaper]

Don't think it would work, and even if it did i wouldn't do that myself

[Nigel Goodwin]

Originally Posted by Steve_Whelan

It would be helpfull if we knew what make and model you had. Most panasonic commercial plasma displays can conect comp to VGA no problem, but this feature is disabled on allmost all TVs.

Rather a misleading statement - it's NOT "disabled on TV's", it never existed.

A commercial Plasma display that would do this is simply using the VGA socket as an external connector, and switching it between VGA and Component connections inside the monitor.

It's NOT accepting Component signals on a VGA input.

Basically it's a crude way to save socket space on the monitor, on a device where it's normal that only one item is ever connected to it at once (which isn't true on a TV).