Adding an HDMI port to a theaterwide 40" HD tv?

[Cpus]

Is it possible? it has s-video and av and all those other ports but not hdmi.

 

[nickbits]

does it have dvi? you can get a hdmi to dvi cable.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

You can't "add a port," but you can get a receiver to connect your HDMI devices to and output via component video. If your TV doesn't support component video or DVI, then you're not going to get better than 480i out of it and HDMI won't really help you regardless since you're stuck with low-def inputs.

 

[NutBucket]

Does it have component inputs?

 

[yehness]

If it has component IN or DVI in you should have no problem converting to HDMI.

 

[skriefal]

You can't "add a port," but you can get a receiver to connect your HDMI devices to and output via component video. If your TV doesn't support component video or DVI, then you're not going to get better than 480i out of it and HDMI won't really help you regardless since you're stuck with low-def inputs.

By "receiver" are you referring to an AVR, from the likes of Onyko, Denon, Marantz, etc? If so then I've yet to encounter an AVR that will transcode HDMI to an analog HD component signal. I believe this would be a violation of the HDCP copy protection, so they're not likely to allow it. Maybe for non-copy protected signals... but those are rare enough that there's not much point bothering at all.

But there are (were?) some external devices that could do this. Search for "HD Fury".