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Undertoad · 06-29-2016, 02:12 PM

Here's the deal man. That cable is not a converter, it's a passive adapter...

HDMI cables can carry two signals. One is the digital video signal that we're all looking at on our monitors right now, and that our new TVs use. The other is the old analog video that old TVs do.

If your device sends the analog signal, than that cable will split it off and send it into the three plugs on the TV. That cable does nothing to the digital signal

If it's a Roku 3 it won't send the signal at all.

OLDER Rokus MAY send the signal, but probably only if it's not copy-protected.

Hence the $100 HD Fury which actually converts the digital signal to analog and "removes" the copy protection.

06-29-2016, 02:12 PM	#6
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Here's the deal man. That cable is not a converter, it's a passive adapter... HDMI cables can carry two signals. One is the digital video signal that we're all looking at on our monitors right now, and that our new TVs use. The other is the old analog video that old TVs do. If your device sends the analog signal, than that cable will split it off and send it into the three plugs on the TV. That cable does nothing to the digital signal If it's a Roku 3 it won't send the signal at all. OLDER Rokus MAY send the signal, but probably only if it's not copy-protected. Hence the $100 HD Fury which actually converts the digital signal to analog and "removes" the copy protection.