Ouputting from HDMI to Analog TV?

[JimPhreak]

If I wanted to output from my GTX 560Ti to an analog TV (using red, white, yellow RCA cables), what would I need? Do I need a converter box or would one of those HDMI to VGA/RCA cables work?

 

[thecoolnessrune]

You need an actual converter chip-based solution as HDMI is only Digital and Composite is only Analog.

You can use a product like this.

Do you have a DVI-I port on the card? If you do, you can use DVI -> VGA, and then use one of these slightly cheaper converters.

Also, you understand the video output will be horrible right? I use to use it and it was borderline unusable.

 

[JimPhreak]

You need an actual converter chip-based solution as HDMI is only Digital and Composite is only Analog.

You can use a product like this.

Do you have a DVI-I port on the card? If you do, you can use DVI -> VGA, and then use one of these slightly cheaper converters.

Also, you understand the video output will be horrible right? I use to use it and it was borderline unusable.

Will it be that bad? This is for my dedicated emulator box and I want to be able to bring it work sometimes to play Smash Brothers Melee during lunch 😀. We only have older analog TV's I can use for that.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

I used it to watch anime once in a while on an old Tube TV and it was fine. I tried ot use it for gaming and the added latency, the odd letterboxing even on square sources, and the artifacting made it a purely awful experience. You *can* do it, but I really don't recommend it. If its your only choice though, you got to do what you got to do it though! I certainly remember doing that 😛

 

[Rifter]

IMO you would be better off buying a cheap $100 LCD and using that.