TendakGold-Plated Active HD 1080P HDMI to VGA Converter Adapter Dongle with 3.5mm Audio for Laptop PC Projector HDTV PS3 Xbox STB Blu-ray DVD

I had an old PC flatscreen monitor, and a BluRay player that was just lying around gathering dust. The monitor was old enough, it only had the VGA input. And a powered stereo speaker, of course.So for $10 and some "found treasure", I created a small, one-person BluRay player setup-- perfect for the top of a desk, or in my case, a workplace viewer of movies (to check for defective discs, and when there was nothing else going on-- a fairly frequent event, in the mornings). Works for DVDs too, obviously.So I ordered this gizmo, and it was dirt simple to use: Plug into the back of the BluRay player, plug the monitor's VGA cable into the gizmo, and plug a male-to-male patch cable between the gizmo and the powered speaker.Turn everything on? *boom* Picture and sound. Pop in a movie? It's playing, no fuss, no complicated configuring- it just works.More than good enough, and superior to any small form-factor TV I could purchase; for some reason makers of TVs seem to think that small form-factor means "super low quality". My PC monitor is a true 1080p, in spite of being only a VGA input. You simply cannot get a TV this small, with this level of picture quality anymore.I also love that I re-purposed old equipment that otherwise would have been trash. Recommended.Note: I cannot comment on durability as yet, I just set this up. Will update if this thing fails, but so far? It Just Works.

I’m happy with the item. However, I would like to suggest a HW improvement. I purchased the item specifically to extract the audio from HDMI.Other dedicated HDMI extractors cost $30. So your solution seem cheaper to me.However, it seems audio will not be extracted if devices can not detect a monitor attached. Therefore, it would be nice to provide a HW switch on the device to route the VGA detection pins to ground to satisfy this need. Essentially this makes a “DUMMY” VGA plug that allows audio extraction without a monitor attached. For a complete solution, I need to also purchase a separateDUMMY VGA plug for $15. Increasing my overall cost. Adding this feature would allow people to ONLY purchase your device for both functions. Other people purchaseDUMMY VGA plugs to allow bitcoin data mining, while using the GPU Video HW for processing without monitors attached. Without a DUMMY VGA plug, it won’t workfor them.

I have a home theater system that uses an IR blaster system to control the electronics which are located about 15 feet from the screen. I tried using this to connect an IR sensor with a male audio connection to this adapter. The adapter then plugged into an HDMI wall connection. The HDMI cable runs through the ceiling to the IR receiver/blaster where I had to plug in the 2nd HDMI/audio adapter to the HDMI cable on the other end and then plug in the male to male wire that came with each adapter, into my IR receiver/blaster controller. The IR sensor would not respond. My current setup involves connecting my IR sensor to a 2-wire audio connection in the wall and the 3rd wire from the IR sensor to my cable TV wire. The cable TV wire and speaker wires run through the ceiling and end at the IR receiver/blaster controller where I spliced in the 3-wire audio, male plug and insert the plug into my IR receiver/blaster controller. The current system works great, but I needed the 4th speaker wire connection in the front of the room to be able to wire my subwoofer to. I was hoping the HDMI adapter to audio would work in order to free up the 4th speaker wire connections. Nope. It didn't work. I'm looking around my home for some male VGA plugs to see if I can use those to wire up my IR blaster system. If that doesn't work, I'm planning to return both adapters.

I am able to use this product, but it did perform how I expected it to perform. It would not do a seamless conversion. I had to connect it to a J5Create HDMI to USB converter to make it work. So for my PC (a Lenovo Y50), I have the standard VGA cable connected to this device, and then I have this device connected to the J5Create which plugs into my laptop. That is the only way I could convert HDMI to VGA using this adapter. What I found out is that an HDMI port does not put out as much power as a USB port. Therefore, to get enough power to send through this converter, I needed to use a USB to HDMI converter and then plus this from the HDMI to the VGA end. Seems weird, but it worked.

This item was the perfect solution for the situation I had. I wanted to be able to display content from blu-ray discs played on my computer on a secondary VGA monitor, with my video output options being HDMI or DVI. I initially tried a DVI to VGA adapter since I had one on hand; however, this method failed because it was not compliant with the HDCP protocol that blu-rays use. This HDMI to VGA adapter has not encountered any issues with HDCP and has solved the problem.My one complaint for this item is that the VGA input is not as secure as it could be due to its lack of screw holes for the VGA cable you plug into it.

I bought this adapter as an experiment to see if what I'm trying to accomplish works or not. Some background, I'm trying to make use of an older HDTV that does not have an hdmi input but has the component and vga inputs. I'm good with connecting my laptop via the 15-pin vga and audio cable. However, I'd like to connect a Roku or Apple TV type box, which only has an hdmi output. I tried the laptop's hdmi output and it worked as expected. I think you need to have some pretty short cables to avoid the flickering as some have mentioned. The longer the cable, the weaker the signal. I'll re-review in a few months.

This worked for 6 months then failed, I unplugged it from my computer and it was burning hot, thankfully it did not damage my HDMI port.Before than I was very happy with it. Hopefully it is just a faulty unit.