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Have you considered a Rasberry Pi Model B?
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RPi has composite video out and HDMI, neither of which is what the OP wants.
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What resolutions does your TV support over component? That could be the issue with some HDMI->Component converters - they may be generating a component resolution that your TV can't handle?
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(This post was last modified: 2014-10-14, 10:47 by Thoir.)
from what I can get from the manual I can find online it's 1080i, 720p, 480p, and 480i at 60hz for the component input. The model is Sony KP-53HS30 Projection TV any insight would be great.
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You should manually set the FireTV to 720p in it's display settings plugged into a HDMI TV then take the box and feed that into the component conversion box.
It might be trying to auto guess the resolution which you shouldn't be doing with the converter in place.
As to native component output Kodi platforms, nothing really out there unless you want to build a PC, you can buy VGA to component cables which may work, AMD and Nvidia in their (windows) display drivers have TV compatibility modes you can force, this is a 720p 1080i TV etc.
For set top boxes, component is not existent at this point, a few years ago it was still found on some boxes but not any more. You can still get RCA/Composite but this gives worse image quality. One chipset that might still support it is the Realtek RTD1195 but very few Android boxes use this chip, the only one I know of is the KD Link A200 and it's HDMI only.
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I even tried setting my Asus Chromebox to 720p and hooking it up with my converter and it didn't work is the chromebox also HDCP?