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Actually, it wouldn't be COMPLETELY useless. If you were in the unfortunate situation of having all the component inputs on the back of your TV already be filled up (as I am with my DVD, Cablebox, and Xbox 360) and you wanted to add one more (say a newly acquired Gamecube component cable), then you could use this to shift one of your devices into an HDMI input.

Of course, my HDTV doesn't even have an HDMI input, so this wouldn't help me... but I suppose it's possible that there are people out there who might be in the situation I described.

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