hdmi connection to composite

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5/1/09 at 10:31am

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Hi all, I'm really noob at this so can someone point out if I'm doing this correctly. I have a htpc connected to my HDTV via hdmi. I also want to output the display to another tv like a master/slave setup. The HDTV has a composite output in the back but when i connected to the other TV i don't get any signal.
I wondering if i did something wrong or is this setup even possible? If not is there another way i can get it to work?

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5/1/09 at 11:06am

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Originally Posted by redusomo

Hi all, I'm really noob at this so can someone point out if I'm doing this correctly. I have a htpc connected to my HDTV via hdmi. I also want to output the display to another tv like a master/slave setup. The HDTV has a composite output in the back but when i connected to the other TV i don't get any signal.
I wondering if i did something wrong or is this setup even possible? If not is there another way i can get it to work?

Are you certain it is a composite OUT? I've never seen an output for composite on a HDTV. In lieu of that, if you have a dual graphics output on your HTPC you can get generic dongles that pull composite from VGA, but there usually are scaling and resolution issues that are hard to work with...

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5/1/09 at 12:36pm

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If the TV has a composite output for use with a VCR the odds are that it only will provide any output when you are receiving analog TV input/video contenbt from a tuner card or from an antenna. Since you are feeding it a digtial signal it is not providing any analog composite output.

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5/2/09 at 8:48pm

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