Can i splice together an hdmi cord with red, white and yellow av cords?

Question

I have a basic tv with no hdmi port but only yellow white and red av slots. My laptop has hdmi slot. Is there a way that i can solice the two wires together to watch movies and shows from my laptop to my tv by doing that? There has to be right i mean you can do pretty much anything you want with wires as long as you know what your doing. Im an electrician and i love to manipulate electricity. I would do it myself to find out but I only have one of each style cord and dont wanna risk having to buy nee cords if it didnt work out. Someone else out there has to have tried it before

Answer 1

Splice Hdmi Cable

Answer 2

You cannot adapt an HDMI lead to the yellow, red, white AV connectors just by changing the plugs on the wires. It will not work and could even cause expensive damage to your audio-visual equipment.



The reason is simple:



HDMI is more than just an expensive lead with fancy plugs at the end. It is a totally digital communications system that sends signals in digital format (ie a series of pulses) along the wires. These signals are encoded and carry digitised information regarding line and field scanning, luminance and hue, audio stereo and surround sound, noise reduction, copyright control (digital rights management), error correction and device control signals. These pulses are sent along the cable at a very high data rate at about 3v. To encode and decode all this requires special electronic circuits at each end of the HDMI cable.



The red and white phono (RCA in the USA) connectors carry simple analogue right and left stereo audio signals at a maximum of 1 volt peak to peak signal strength. The yellow connector carries an analogue Composite Video signal also at 1v p-p. None of these signals are compatible in any way at all with the stuff carried by an HDMI lead.



The only way that you can "adapt" the laptop's HDMI output to the television's analogue AV inputs is to use a special converter box. This will change the digital signals from its HDMI input into analogue Composite Video + audio for the television.



Note that "composite video" is NOT compatible with the "component" video that is also popular in the USA. So you must be very careful about the type of converter that you buy. Most are "HDMI to YpPbR Component" and this will not work with your Yellow, Red, Green AV inputs.



You need something like this:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/SuperStore_Electronics-Composite-Video-Audio-Converter/dp/B00LTHG5IE/ref=sr_1_34?ie=UTF8&qid=1417690921&sr=8-34&keywords=hdmi+to+analogue+tv+converter

Answer 3

"There has to be right i mean you can do pretty much anything you want with wires as long as you know what your doing"



No.



HDMI is digital with lots of copy protection built in.



Yellow is for composite video which is an analog signal.



While you can physically wire the connectors - something has to convert the signals to make it work.



Go buy a Roku 2 box and hook it up to that standard def television.



Or - go buy a budget HDTV.

Answer 4

No, as they are two different formats. HDMI is digital, whereas red, white, yellow is analog.



You should be able to buy an adaptor that allows you to use both cable types together, but you will NOT get a HD picture from it.

Answer 5

no, you cannot, the signals are different and it does not work. cords like this do exist but work with a very few tvs from a very specific time period, they do not work with more modern or older tvs. you can however buy a hdmi to rca converter box for about 15 bucks on amazon, just look up hdmi to rca converter

Answer 6

Your best choice would be to purchase a new tv. You can not change a digital signal to an analog signal. The Yellow cable is only capable of 280 (analog) resolution and the HDMI is 1080P (digital). You are trying to down grade the signal to the old days.

Answer 7

No. The signals are too different and requires a signal converter.



I wouldn't bother with one. Such converters are expensive and don't do a good job. If you have a device that only outputs HDMI, and you don't have a HDTV, your best bet is to buy a HDTV. Any non-HD TV will be at least 20 years old now.

Answer 8

Your are going backward on technology. Your AV must be old with only component hook ups. There's no wiring diagram on HDMI cables which carry video and audion and component is only for video. See if your computer has other output for video instead of HDMI or a single video output, then a mini plug like headphone for sound to be able to connect to your computer.

Answer 9

You can splice away, but there is no way a mere cable can change a digital signal to analog.

Answer 10

B.s ive done it!

Answer 11

No.