Does anyone here know if you can hook up an HDMI Blu-ray player to a non HDMI HDTV?

[Dave B]

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Although never having used one, I doubt it works because you'd still need some sort of a converter.

Exactly: you'd still need an active converter which wouldn't be cost effective, a $7 cable won't magically change the signal from digital to analogue.