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How much is a VCR/DVD combination player?

Blu-ray Player Difficulties?

  • I recently bought a blu-ray player because my old dvd/vhs one kicked the bucket. I wasnt able to watch a single thing without the player breaking down on me so I decided to upgrade. Problem: My tv is hella old and I'm too broke to buy a new one. It still uses the red white and yellow cables and I didn't even think this would be a problem till my new blu-ray player came in. Whoops. And YES I know that with an old tv the quality will still suck but at least it will play bluray and dvd's. I dont care about quality, just the combination factor because I'd get the best of both worlds. I noticed however that my new player doesnt have the composite cable circles to connect it. The back is just just hdmi (w/e), USB, and LAN outlets. SOO... my question is, is there a way to rig it up anyway? Like a cord or something I can buy that can solve my tech difficulties. I tried to look it up myself but I'm not tech savvy enough to understand the lingo and whatnot. Long story short: hdmi cord on one end and red white and yellow on the other end, does this magnificent thing exist???

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    You can't really buy just a cheap cord to do this; HDMI is digital and composite is analog, so just changing connectors on the cable wouldn't work. This (http://www.amazon.com/HDMI-Composite-S-Video-Converter-3RCA/dp/B0047PDBP0/) should work. Takes the digital HDMI and converts it to analog composite. Another option would be to find a cheap computer monitor with HDMI input, so you would be able to watch things in a decent resolution.

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The simple answer is no. Ebay is full of HDMI to Component cables. These are the ones with R, B, G + red & white for sound, and loads of gullible punters buy them thinking that a cable can turn a digital signal in to an analogue signal which it can't. It's the same with composite (yellow) video. That's analogue too. Older generation Blu-ray players used to have composite and stereo audio outputs. But as prices fell so the features that people didn't use so much also got cut out to save money. There are convertor boxes, but thses cost as much as a new player, so it's really not a cost effective solution. A second-hand BD player might be an option for you. Alternatively just a budget DVD player until you can upgrade the TV.

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