In the land of HD-TV two things I recently discovered that I thought were worth a mention.
One is that 8 years ago or so, Samsung made a HD CRT TV with a HDMI input.
The other is that you can buy a HDMI to RCA RGB component cable which won't work, ever.
The problem is, that HDMI is digital, as in, ones and zeros, but component RGB is a continuously varying analogue signal. The two are fundamentally incompatible without a "Box of Tricks" in-between. This "box" would need to decode HDMI and output it using a Digital to Analogue Converter, one per channel.
Since the cable has no box of tricks then it is unable to do the job. Quite why anyone would make a cable that does not do anything is puzzling but moreover, who is buying them and why have the retailers not been done for Trades Description violations or environmental pollution.
