TendakGold-Plated Active HD 1080P HDMI to VGA Converter Adapter Dongle with 3.5mm Audio for Laptop PC Projector HDTV PS3 Xbox STB Blu-ray DVD

I had an old PC flatscreen monitor, and a BluRay player that was just lying around gathering dust. The monitor was old enough, it only had the VGA input. And a powered stereo speaker, of course.So for $10 and some "found treasure", I created a small, one-person BluRay player setup-- perfect for the top of a desk, or in my case, a workplace viewer of movies (to check for defective discs, and when there was nothing else going on-- a fairly frequent event, in the mornings). Works for DVDs too, obviously.So I ordered this gizmo, and it was dirt simple to use: Plug into the back of the BluRay player, plug the monitor's VGA cable into the gizmo, and plug a male-to-male patch cable between the gizmo and the powered speaker.Turn everything on? *boom* Picture and sound. Pop in a movie? It's playing, no fuss, no complicated configuring- it just works.More than good enough, and superior to any small form-factor TV I could purchase; for some reason makers of TVs seem to think that small form-factor means "super low quality". My PC monitor is a true 1080p, in spite of being only a VGA input. You simply cannot get a TV this small, with this level of picture quality anymore.I also love that I re-purposed old equipment that otherwise would have been trash. Recommended.Note: I cannot comment on durability as yet, I just set this up. Will update if this thing fails, but so far? It Just Works.

I have it running the HDMI output for a mini Mac into an old Dell monitor. It's been in use 5 days a week for over a month and has given me no cause for complaint.

I have a home theater system that uses an IR blaster system to control the electronics which are located about 15 feet from the screen. I tried using this to connect an IR sensor with a male audio connection to this adapter. The adapter then plugged into an HDMI wall connection. The HDMI cable runs through the ceiling to the IR receiver/blaster where I had to plug in the 2nd HDMI/audio adapter to the HDMI cable on the other end and then plug in the male to male wire that came with each adapter, into my IR receiver/blaster controller. The IR sensor would not respond. My current setup involves connecting my IR sensor to a 2-wire audio connection in the wall and the 3rd wire from the IR sensor to my cable TV wire. The cable TV wire and speaker wires run through the ceiling and end at the IR receiver/blaster controller where I spliced in the 3-wire audio, male plug and insert the plug into my IR receiver/blaster controller. The current system works great, but I needed the 4th speaker wire connection in the front of the room to be able to wire my subwoofer to. I was hoping the HDMI adapter to audio would work in order to free up the 4th speaker wire connections. Nope. It didn't work. I'm looking around my home for some male VGA plugs to see if I can use those to wire up my IR blaster system. If that doesn't work, I'm planning to return both adapters.

As with other 1-star reviewers, my converter worked for about 5 minutes and then started working intermittently. The picture flashes on for about 5 seconds and then it goes off for about 5 seconds. On and off et cetera. The audio stopped working all together. I tried the unit with a laptop and a Blu-ray player as output devices. I tried two different monitors too. No combination resolved the issue.Looking at other reviews, if you get one that works for a long period of time you're probably lucky. If you get one that is defective, you'll find out after a short period of use.Edit: The company sent me a free replacement unit that was a USB powered version. The replacement worked.

I’m happy with the item. However, I would like to suggest a HW improvement. I purchased the item specifically to extract the audio from HDMI.Other dedicated HDMI extractors cost $30. So your solution seem cheaper to me.However, it seems audio will not be extracted if devices can not detect a monitor attached. Therefore, it would be nice to provide a HW switch on the device to route the VGA detection pins to ground to satisfy this need. Essentially this makes a “DUMMY” VGA plug that allows audio extraction without a monitor attached. For a complete solution, I need to also purchase a separateDUMMY VGA plug for $15. Increasing my overall cost. Adding this feature would allow people to ONLY purchase your device for both functions. Other people purchaseDUMMY VGA plugs to allow bitcoin data mining, while using the GPU Video HW for processing without monitors attached. Without a DUMMY VGA plug, it won’t workfor them.

Works perfectly with the MCE2HDMI device to covert VGA to HDMI. Ordered two!

I bought two of these. One for projector screens, and the second was a backup. The first lasted about a year, without ever being moved or any strain put on it. Then one day it just stopped working, without warning. I replaced it with my never used backup and the same result happened. It worked for almost a year, then it stopped working altogether. It's worth the extra money to buy a heavy duty converter box if you need dependability.

I just bought this a few weeks ago. I used it this week and it worked perfectly with a projector for several hours. I owned one that had the HDMI connector on a short cable, which was not made very well. The VGA end fell apart pretty much right away. I taped it back together. It eventually stopped working. I like this one much better since it more compact and in my view reduces clutter behind the computer, It seems very solid. The only negative is the VGA socket end has no way to screw the VGA connector into the adapter, but it holds the connector very tightly anyway. It should be okay. I bought several of these for the guys at work. No complaints from around the room.Have you noticed laptops manufactures are getting away from providing VGA outputs? This fixes that little problem very well and cheaply.