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VGA is analog while HDMI is digital; one would need to make such a conversion if connecting two otherwise incompatible devices. Blu-ray Players and PS3s, for instance, generally have HDMI outputs, so an HDMI-to-VGA conversion would be necessary to display the video on older VGA display hardware.

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