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2 inputs to 1 display, with seperated audio.

post #1 of 3
10/2/12 at 7:52am
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Hi, I'm hoping someone on here could help me.

I'm trying to set up a Blu-Ray player for my mum, but the thing is she has a fairly old HD TV (One of the old 'Ambilight' ones).

She has Sky+ connected at the moment, and that needs a VGA adaptor to connect to the TV then it has it's Audio connected seperatly via 2 seperate cables, like an RCA lead minus the video one. ( Sorry for my wording of this, I'm having to look up the names of everything and hope they're right...)

So now she has a Blu-Ray player, and I have a problem...

The Blu-ray just has an HDMI output, so I can't just have 2 switchers, (one for audio and one for HD video)

I've got a switcher for the HDMI leads, but it only gives me a picture. I've been trying to find something to split the HDMI lead into RCA leads. I tryed this just now, but no luck.

There Must be some way to do this surly...

My plan was to have some thing like this... (Red - Audio. Black - Video)


Just to clarify;

Sky+ has;
1 HDMI output
1 Audio output for Left and Right sound

Blu-Ray has;
1 HDMI output

and the TV has;
1 VGA input
1 Audio input for Left and Right Audio

I also currently have an HDMI Splitter and an HDMI Switcher. (I've just been testing audio by pluging it straight innto the TV after unpluging Sky+'s audio.)

So, is there anything any of you wonderful people can do to help?... biggrin.gif
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post #2 of 3
10/2/12 at 8:45am
OK, let's back-up a bit so some of this will make sense. HDMI is a digital output. So, splitting the 1s and 0s by a dumb cable is never going to work. Everything HDMI requires an active (plugged-in) component. Sometimes the power is provided by the source equipment (the blu-ray player) and sometimes the power is provided by an external AC adapter. In all situations something must power the conversion and so the cable you purchased had no chance of working with a regular HDMI output.

In order to help, I need to know how you are getting the TV to display a picture if it only has a VGA input? HDMI is designed to prevent conversion of a picture to analog (the copy protection police require this). So, HDMI to VGA is not usually an available adapter.

Finally, something like this (I use this as only an example since it is in the US) - http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=101&cp_id=10110&cs_id=1011002&p_id=7112&seq=1&format=2 is what you are looking for on the audio side. It is actually fairly cheap as far as HDMI components go. That will take care of the audio but I don't know how you are handling the video.
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post #3 of 3
10/2/12 at 10:01am
If you have video on the TV from SKY+ you surly have some kind of HDMI-to-VGA converter. Such converters usually do also a HDMI-to-audio stereo conversion. In this case your HDMI switch and this converter should be enough for your need.
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