VGA to HDMI Cable?

OrbitzXT · Sep 9, 2011

Someone I know is going away and wants to watch downloaded movies from his laptop and display them on the hotel room's HDTV. The laptop in question is fairly old and only has VGA out, no HDMI. I googled it and saw VGA to HDMI but it said something like "NO COMPUTER/LAPTOP", so I'm not sure what that's even used for then. I'm not really sure what to suggest to him, any thoughts on what he can use to display the movies on the TV? Sound isn't a huge issue, he can have that play from the laptop itself.

Sir B. Fannybottom · Sep 9, 2011

VGA is an analog signal, HDMI is digital, you simply can't have that work out... You can get VGA to component I believe...

OrbitzXT · Sep 9, 2011

Someone told me some TVs have USB inputs that you can simply plug in a flash drive with movie files on them and it can play them. Is this true, and what're the chances of a hotel room HDTV being able to do this?

erocker · Sep 9, 2011

There's plenty of vga to hdmi cables out there for sale and they'll work... for video only, no sound. For sound he'll have to use a 3.5" audio jack to the TV (and that may or may not work with the television set to HDMI input) or he'll have to have audio playing through his laptop while watching video on the TV.

cheesy999 · Sep 9, 2011

OrbitzXT said:
Someone told me some TVs have USB inputs that you can simply plug in a flash drive with movie files on them and it can play them. Is this true, and what're the chances of a hotel room HDTV being able to do this?

very low chance on a hotel room PC

and you can change VGA to HDMI, but since it's analog to digital the adaptors are very expensive

NdMk2o1o · Sep 9, 2011

Does the TV not have VGA?

Frick · Sep 9, 2011

erocker said:
There's plenty of vga to hdmi cables out there for sale and they'll work... for video only, no sound. For sound he'll have to use a 3.5" audio jack to the TV (and that may or may not work with the television set to HDMI input) or he'll have to have audio playing through his laptop while watching video on the TV.

Can you link one?

NdMk2o1o said:
Does the TV not have VGA?

He wants to use it in hotel rooms, so it's not for certain.

erocker · Sep 9, 2011

Frick said:
Can you link one?

Yeah, Imma good Google'er

http://www.google.com/products/cata...=X&ei=wGtqTpn9G-H40gHPwM3pBA&ved=0CFQQ8wIwAQ#

Frick · Sep 9, 2011

erocker said:
Yeah, Imma good Google'er

http://www.google.com/products/cata...=X&ei=wGtqTpn9G-H40gHPwM3pBA&ved=0CFQQ8wIwAQ#

How the heck does that work?

Sir B. Fannybottom · Sep 9, 2011

Where were you 3 months ago Mr. rocker? I spent like 3 days looking for one in stores and I just saw on there that amazon has one :c

OrbitzXT · Sep 9, 2011

NdMk2o1o said:
Does the TV not have VGA?

I would imagine not, it could but I don't think so.

Would something like this work?
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0333361

OrbitzXT · Sep 9, 2011

erocker said:
Yeah, Imma good Google'er

http://www.google.com/products/cata...=X&ei=wGtqTpn9G-H40gHPwM3pBA&ved=0CFQQ8wIwAQ#

It says:

NOTE: Your Video card must support digital signal output through VGA port function.

Being this is a laptop with likely integrated graphics, can it do that?

Frick · Sep 9, 2011

OrbitzXT said:
It says:

NOTE: Your Video card must support digital signal output through VGA port function.

Being this is a laptop with likely integrated graphics, can it do that?

I think you have to look at the manual for that. You know what laptop it is?

And I assume that device should work, it is kinda pricey though..

FordGT90Concept · Sep 9, 2011

OrbitzXT said:
Someone I know is going away and wants to watch downloaded movies from his laptop and display them on the hotel room's HDTV. The laptop in question is fairly old and only has VGA out, no HDMI. I googled it and saw VGA to HDMI but it said something like "NO COMPUTER/LAPTOP", so I'm not sure what that's even used for then. I'm not really sure what to suggest to him, any thoughts on what he can use to display the movies on the TV? Sound isn't a huge issue, he can have that play from the laptop itself.

a) They aren't cables because the standards are incompatible.
b) Converters do exist, but they ain't cheap. Here's probably the best I've found (VGA + 3.5mm stereo audio -> HDMI): Cables-to-Go VGA to HDMI® Converter
c) The video quality won't be the best on these because they basically have to capture the image so many times a second and convert them to a digital stream. It will look analog, not digital.

Frick said:
How the heck does that work?

Doubt it does (it is INSTEN brand). It's probably purpose built for some obscure commecial video device (most likely a KVM). There's no stand for piping a digital signal into a D-Sub 15 cable.

1024x768 is pretty pathetic (the one I linked above can do 1920x1080).

CJCerny · Sep 9, 2011

erocker said:
Yeah, Imma good Google'er

http://www.google.com/products/cata...=X&ei=wGtqTpn9G-H40gHPwM3pBA&ved=0CFQQ8wIwAQ#

The cable might exist, but it isn't going to work on 99% of the displays equipped with a VGA connector. Gotta also convert from digital to analog to get 99% of the displays to work.

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