Hooking up pc to tv without vga/hdmi?

[slackerinabox]

My dad's projection tv is pretty old school - only has component and svideo but is a 1080i set. They just want to watch web video from their laptop and I wonder what my options are (laptop has vga and hdmi port).

Are there any good vga to component adapters out there? Or hdmi to component? I've seen a few on amazon but they seem to be for hooking up a component device to an hdmi TV (nto hdmi source into a component tv) and I'm not sure if the conversion goes both ways.

Thanks!

 

[Throckmorton]

I googled and found these http://www.hdtvsupply.com/hdtocoad.html

 

[Iron Woode]

simplest way is to go from vga to s-video.

 

[Throckmorton]

s-video isn't HD

 

[DaveSimmons]

What kind of web video?

A Roku-type box or fancy blu-ray player would support Netflix and Youtube, but probably not Hulu.

 

[RavenSEAL]

VGA/DVI/HDMI is the only way to get 1080i Resolution.

 

[DaveSimmons]

VGA/DVI/HDMI is the only way to get 1080i Resolution.

My Samsung upscaling DVD player claims to send 1080i over component.

Wiki also says it's possible:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component_video

 

[slackerinabox]

What kind of web video?

A Roku-type box or fancy blu-ray player would support Netflix and Youtube, but probably not Hulu.

It's some very specialized indian shows. Tamilo.com i think.


As far as the converters - anyone recommend any brand specifically? I got them a vga to svideo converter that had absolutely dreadful video quality.

 

[slackerinabox]

VGA/DVI/HDMI is the only way to get 1080i Resolution.

I seem to get 1080i over component myself (cable box, ran out of HDMI ports on my home tv), but I'm sure they'd be happy with 720p

 

[RavenSEAL]

Yea, but it's not a true, raw 1080i/p resolution, it's probably scaled down in some shape or form, as far as i know, only HDMI can transfer true 1080i/p resolutions, or atleast it's the most efficient and reliable.

 

[slackerinabox]

Yea, but it's not a true, raw 1080i/p resolution, it's probably scaled down in some shape or form, as far as i know, only HDMI can transfer true 1080i/p resolutions, or atleast it's the most efficient and reliable.

Are you talking about AACS limits? I'm pretty sure 1080i over component works but bluray, etc disable it for copy protection reasons