adelaideviewer Posted December 28, 2011 Posted December 28, 2011 Hi all, Recently bought a Topfield 2460 HD Masterpiece. I've got an older Panasonic widescreen analogue TV that has a great picture but only has composite and S-video inputs. I thought I would borrow a friend's converter ATLONA box that takes HDMI out the Toppy into the converter box and then outputs as S video. However there is no signal at all! Then I wondered if it is something to do with HDCP copy protection on HDMI signals. I believe the converter box has HDCP copy protection in it - so does that mean the HDMI out the Topfield would not work in that case? Cheers Ian
cwt Posted December 28, 2011 Posted December 28, 2011 Unless the atlona strips hdcp like a hdfury Ian it wont work. The tv has to communicate its hdcp compliance with the toppy to get a signal. If your tv had component inputs a 1st gen hdfury would work . The atlona would have to both strip the hdcp and downrez any 1080i channels. If the 2460 had a s video out you could just use that but it dont so crappy composite is whats left on the tv .. Good excuse for a new tv if youre motivated
adelaideviewer Posted January 21, 2012 Author Posted January 21, 2012 Hey many thanks for the answer. Have just been away so reading it now. All understood! As an alternative what about something like the Atlona box that takes Component output from the Topfield and converts to an S video output which does feed to my Panasonic tv - should that work succesfully?
cwt Posted January 21, 2012 Posted January 21, 2012 (edited) On 21/01/2012 at 1:09 PM, adelaideviewer said: Hey many thanks for the answer. Have just been away so reading it now. All understood! As an alternative what about something like the Atlona box that takes Component output from the Topfield and converts to an S video output which does feed to my Panasonic tv - should that work succesfully? Depends if the atlona has a comb filter and can downconvert any hd channels to sd output [ which is the maximum resolution for s video] Ian Usually these boxes upscale ie composite > s video.> component but it should say in the manual if it can do component > s video . No problem with hdcp in this case however If a yamaha avr can manage it you have nothing to lose trying Edited January 21, 2012 by cwt
CarlR Posted January 28, 2012 Posted January 28, 2012 I would have thought a widescreen TV would take Component input? Analogue or not, CRT or not, I would have thought Component input would have been included. You learn something new every day.
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