Technical Gadgets and their incompatibility: A question for nerdy tech geeks

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SidingWithTheEnemy

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Disclaimer: I could opened a thread on one of those geek boards somewhere in the internet, posing the following but it is as much more fun to post it here.
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So, I'm giving a several seminars this week. I like to present with my laptop and I get a beamer video projector from the school. But I hate carrying my laptop around from one building to another and the cables and everything is rather meh....
So I thought it might be more interesting and far less strenous if I could just my Android Phone. It has an HDMI Out called MHL.
But guess what, the beamer video projector only has a VGA in or an S-Video in.
The only adapter I found that converts an MHL to a VGA signal is discontinued.
So why has nobody else thought of that brilliant idea? Why is nobody producing that product. It's not like every company or school suddenly use beamers video projectors with Digital Input, DVI or HDMI. Am I doomed to have an MHL Out interface but will be unable to use it because the other devices are too old?
 

Private Custard

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You could always daisy-chain different cables.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Samsung-Galaxy-S-II-i9100-MHL-Micro-USB-VGA-adapter-MHL-hdmi-HDMI-VGA-/150661952744
 

SidingWithTheEnemy

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ravensheart18 said:
What the hell is a "beamer"?

Do you mean a video projector?
Oh sorry, yes it's called a beamer in my country and it "beams" light at the wall, it's a video projector.
 

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Private Custard said:
You could always daisy-chain different cables.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Samsung-Galaxy-S-II-i9100-MHL-Micro-USB-VGA-adapter-MHL-hdmi-HDMI-VGA-/150661952744
I've read that this doesn't work because, well, honestly I didn't understood that part why it doesn't...
 

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ravensheart18 said:
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Ah, ok, funny how slang differs.
Yes, "false friends". Those damn language anglicisms pop up in the technology language sector like the mushrooms in Morrowind.
And the worst thing is that people fall for it that it's English (or has the same meaning at least)