I love the HDMI standard for audio-video connectivity. HDMI cables and connections are very well made and easy to use. They are a significant improvement over the whole host of unwieldy audio/video cables that we had to rely in the past to get our devices connected. Unfortunately, older TVs, projectors and monitors (most of which are still pretty good and usable) do not support the HDMI standard, and finding appropriate connection cables can be tricky.

This HDMI to VGA cable is pretty good and it enabled me to connect some of my more modern computers to the legacy old monitors. Unlike other similar adapters that I’ve used, it also supports audio – this is a pretty big deal as far as I am concerned. I was able to use this adapter with a Raspberry Pi microcomputer and a new Windows 8.1 tablet with HDMI out. I was even able to connect an Amazon Fire TV Stick to an old TV. Unfortunately, I was still not able to get the full Fire TV Stick experience. The adapter worked impeccably with YouTube app, but was not delivering video for the Prime and Netflix apps. These restrictions have nothing to do with this adapter, but are artificially imposed by those two apps in order to prevent their programming to be played on any device. This is the most unfortunate, but as far as I know there is not much that can be done about it.

This cable adapter is pretty well made and durable. I would have liked it to be a bit longer, but this is not a major issue for me.

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