2007-04-13 17:30:24 · 3 answers · asked by illest76 1 in Consumer Electronics ➔ TVs
HDMI is a strictly digital cable that only fits in a HDMI slot or DVI slot (if you have a dual ended cable with HDMI and DVI connectors). Regular tv's use component, RCA, and/or S-video connections which are all analog (non-digital).
Even with some kind of magic converter you could not upconvert analog to digital. You can downgrade digital to analog, though. Either way, a tv has to be a digital tv to use a digital cable (such as HDMI). A standard tv would not show a digital signal. It would appear as wavy lines and static or black.
That is why in February 2009 when all television broadcasts are federally mandated to be broadcast in digital everyone without a digitally compatible television will have to buy a digital television of some sort. Converters will be available (remember you can downgrade) but they will not really be that worth it. Digital technology becomes cheaper and cheaper every year.
Hope I helped clear that up!! Wikipedia can be extremely inaccurate at times. Never take what it says as fact without verifying it somewhere else. Good luck.
2007-04-13 19:21:46 · answer #1 · answered by BrewMan 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wikipedia Hdmi
2016-11-14 10:31:22 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No,HDMI cables work on hd TVs not conventional TVs.What page on Wikipedia?
2007-04-13 17:43:43 · answer #3 · answered by bahs313 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Regular TVs", meaning non-HDTV sets, would not have an HDMI input. HDMI means "High Definition Multimedia Interface". However, if you do have an HDTV, the HDMI cable will carry all types of signals to the set, even ones that are not HD.
2007-04-13 20:10:47 · answer #4 · answered by gp4rts 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋