Any way to get hdmi out of non hdmi laptop?

My laptop only has vga out and was wondering if there was any way to connect hdmi with an express card or something like that?

 

VGA is analog, HDMI is digital. You would need an expensive converter box. Cheap ones are available, but they're generally of poor quality and support only a limited number of resolutions.

Edit: You can use something like this, which is USB. It has a DVI output and you could then use a DVI-HDMI cable to have that connectivity.

 

what machine do you have? you can get a get dvi port using usb2dvi converter (but watching movies are not great at full 1080p, due to the limited bandwidth). The dvi port can be converted to hdmi without sound with a 5 dollars adapter that you buy over ebay.

The other way is to get a desktop graphics card with HDMI and a DIY Vidock or Vidock 2, etc, but that is expensive.

 

In my opinion the outcome it's not worth the cost.

 

Thanks guys for the responses but the main reason I'm looking for an hdmi connection is to have both audio and video. Would that be possible too?

 

Not without a converter box. Good ones that have audio, a wide selection of resolutions, and decent picture quality cost a lot of money, so much so that you might as well buy a whole new system.

 

yup just buy a new laptop...

 

Thats not very helpful.

How can you convert VGA to DVI without a converter box then?

 

May not, but it's succinct. That's also his way of telling you it's not worth it: Your connections are obsolete.

Your questions are not practicable.

 

US$140/US$155 HD5670/GT430 DIY ViDock will get you HDMI audio, video and accelerated graphics.

 

You can't.

 

Aren't there simple VGA to DVI cable adapters in existence? Or am I msitaking something with something else?

 

Yep
NEW!! DVI DVI-I (M) to VGA (F) video converter/adapter - eBay (item 120632123292 end time Oct-16-10 20:02:23 PDT)

and i'm using one, so i know for a fact they work.
there are also these 1.8M Gold HDMI Male to VGA HD-15 Male Cable 6ft 6 feet - eBay (item 170551297350 end time Oct-17-10 18:10:46 PDT)
and these HDMI TO 3 RCA Video Audio AV Converter Adapter Cable - eBay (item 190446309802 end time Oct-18-10 11:17:40 PDT)
though
the last one I bought and it totally doesn't work for anything. I think it is sold on the basis of people think its possible.
I do believe HDMI to analog component is a bit more difficult.

 

You have it backward.

DVI/HDMI to VGA - Can be accomplished with a simple adapter and cable

VGA to DVI/HDMI - Needs a converter box like this

 

well see, thats still a very odd way to explain simple information we dont have.

what your saying is that digitial to analog is backwards compatible. there, now it actually makes sense.

 

That's not what I'm saying at all.

Digital to analog and analog to digital can both be done, but the former is much less costly and requires only simple adapters/cables. The latter can only be done adequately with expensive equipment that's not worth the cost, especially if you want to add audio capability.

I don't see how much more easily it can be explained.

 

Wait wait, on which end is what on the cables? I could've sworn seeing VGA cables that had a DVI plug for the monitor on the other side D: Maybe I have them backwards mind you....but I'm certain that one monitor at work(the HP L2065) only had DVI inputs and one of my computers at work only had VGA outputs and I managed to get an image using only a single cable >.>

 

None of your links are helping the OP, they're just misleading.
The first one is for DVI- I to VGA, quite the opposite of what both the OP and Forever_Melody was asking for, good luck connecting that to a VGA only laptop.

The second link says:

How common is that? I have no idea but I've never used it.

The third link says:

Did you use such device together with the cable?

 

A DVI-I cable have separate pins for both analog and digital signals, so what you saw is possible, but the signal is usually analog in those cases.

 

I suppose if you have enough money and tenacity, it is possible to install a turbine engine in a Honda Accord. However, what most people are trying to say (in most civil terms) is that it's not something most rational people would want to do.

In this case, your end result would be an obsolete technology.

 

+1 to this. You can physically go from VGA (analog) >> DVI (analog+digital) >> HDMI (digital) using just adapters but you won't get a signal.

 

Basically OP , forget it.. You'll waste a lot of money to make your obsolete laptop get HDMI... when you could have spent it on a new laptop with HDMI , DVI or mini Display port of something... It is not worth the hassle.. especially when going from VGA to HDMI.