Hi Rex, What about USB-> VGA? The speed he may be talking about is that HDMI can send over 10Gbps at HDMI 1.3. VGA is purely up to the processor of your computer. major difference - HDMI is uncompressed digital image VGA is analog -- Andrew Morrison Head of Department - ICT & Information Services Corinda SHS <http://www.corindashs.eq.edu.au/>
------ Original Message ------ From: "Rex Boggs" <[email protected]> To: "QSITE ICT Teachers" <[email protected]> Sent: 3/08/2011 6:00:44 AM Subject: [qsiteict] HDMI port and data projectors >I recently purchases a shiny new high-end-ish laptop from Dell. Alas >when I went to plug a data >projector into it to use it with an interactive whiteboard, I >discovered that it had an HDMI port, >but no VGA port. > >One fellow from Dick Smith connected a HDMI-->DVi converter to a >DVi-->VGA converter. That didn't >work. I then bought a rather expensive powered box that connects a >HTMI port to a VGA port. Alas, >when I tried it out yesterday, it didn't work - all I could see was >the 'No Signal' blue screen. > >A fellow at JayCar where I bought the powered box from said that a >number of customers had had >trouble connecting their HDMI laptop to their VGA data projector, >something to do with the 'speed' >of the signal (not sure what he means here). > >Anyway, the bottom line is, I can 't get my HDMI computer to talk to a >data projector with a VGA >input. Has anyone else had this problem? More usefully, has anyone >found a solution? > >Rex > > >--- >You are currently subscribed to qsiteict as: [email protected]. >To unsubscribe click here: >http://lyris.edna.edu.au/u?id=705740.076bf9b12ff62a02ab00cdd3d72f63be&n=T&l=qsiteict&o=1931861 > > >or send a blank email to >leave-1931861-705740.076bf9b12ff62a02ab00cdd3d72f6...@edna.edu.au --- You are currently subscribed to qsiteict as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://lyris.edna.edu.au/u?id=705742.d42ea647e85be3beb25392eea1a77f09&n=T&l=qsiteict&o=1931868 or send a blank email to leave-1931868-705742.d42ea647e85be3beb25392eea1a77...@edna.edu.au
