[ckaranch]


I have an older house that has a system designed by me 20 years ago. It was designed to be able to watch what is on the main tv in the living and on the 3 other house tv's. This includes watching one of two Video players( DVD and DVD/VCR combo) on any of the house TV's. I have a RF converter which takes the composite( Red White Yellow ) output and converts it to Chanel 3 . I had to add this since the new DVD player only has composite or component outputs.

 

The Dilemma

 

We are redoing the living room and its time to move from a 27 inch CRT to a 55 inch LED TV.

 

My Question is how do I get the HDMI output to the other 3 TV and simple enough not to confuse guest who use the home when we are away? In reading the reviews of the $30.00 HDMI to Composite converts none seam to be worthwhile. Can someone recommend a AVR receiver that will take in HDMI inputs and output in HDMI ans well as composite, or a working converter.

 

I am slow to change to new video technology so don't see moving to 3d anytime soon

 

[scorrpio]

 http://www.amazon.com/Etekcity%C2%AE-Composite-Video-Audio-Converter/dp/B008FO7PQA

Something like this should work.


However, you need to make sure you feed it low quality signal (480i/p, 2 channel audio) to begin with. Same true for pretty much all other cheap converters.


If you want quality SD no matter the input, here's the device for you:
http://www.gefen.com/kvm/gtv-hdmi-2-compsvidsn.jsp?prod_id=11402


Costs over $300 though.

 

[ckaranch]


Thanks Scorrpio

 

I have been looking over the forum and the item you suggested will do a number of things the right way. I also see that it is not compliant which might be good at some point. I also learned from the site that I can get an HDMI extender so at some point when more of the TV's have HDMI inputs I will just get a splitter and an Extender. But that means drilling holes in the floor, crawling under the house and running HDMI cables to each room. Guess I should run 2 and a cat6 while I'm under there.

 

[scorrpio]

Is it that critical to distribute same thing to all TVs in house? Maybe time to embrace the future? And I am not talking 3D. Home server for the media, and internet-enabled TVs. I got Cat 6 throughout house, distributed via a Gigabit Cisco switch, but many TVs today also have built-in WiFi. Any TV in the house can either play movies and recorded TV off the central server, and also use a variety of streaming services (Netflix, Amazon, Youtube etc). You already have coax running through house, meaning you can set up a single antenna and use TV's built-in tuners. If not ready to replace TVs, you can get Roku boxes for them.

 

[amirm]

Your new TV does not have an analog tuner so your RF converter solution will not work!


You can use your existing coax to transmit HDMI with adapters at both ends (e.g. http://www.snapav.com/p-944-b-400-1coax-hdir.aspx ). But it will be point to point and not broadcast.

 

[Ratman]



Quote:
Originally Posted by amirm  /t/1519807/moving-on-but-need-help-converting-hdmi-to-rf-composite#post_24409404


Your new TV does not have an analog tuner so your RF converter solution will not work!.

Without any mention of the make/model of the TV, how do you know it doesn't have an NTSC capable tuner?

 

[ckaranch]


Thanks for the suggestions but I think I have run into a road block. I got the Gefen HDMI to Composite Scaler but was told it would not work like I want it to. I was afraid this would be difficult and its getting very complicated.

 

I bought a Sharp 650 TV, as well as upgraded with a new cable box to HD. I realized I will need a AVR with pass through on the low price end then split the out put to go to a splitter. From the splitter I would go to the TV and the Gefen HDMI to composite. After searching I realized I needed a special splitter. So I found out that the HDMI to composite would cause problems with the signal from the cable box.

 

Is there ANY way to make this work

 

[ckaranch]


Is there a AVR that will down scale to composite out, to avoid the problem ? Even and older model available on ebay

 

[ckaranch]


For those who would like to split the output of HDMi to Composite.

 

I am so far able to get this to work with the output of a DVD player HDMI into a splittier, and convert this to composit. I get output on the new Sharp 650 TV as well as convert the composite witha RF modulator to the rest of the House. The Gefen did not work for this. I was able to do it with a 2way HDMI Splitter( # 47-100-001 ) and a HDMI to RCA composite converter ( # 47-300-014 ). Both from Show Me Cables.

 

When I get my short HDMI cable I will see how it works with the Pioneer VSX-43 I got at BB today. For 299.00 it was the lowest cost AVR with Passthrough