HDMI / Big screen
When i first got my E7 i was blown away by the HDMI out Big Screen app. Very simple to use and connect.
But a few months later, after downloading a lot of stuff from You Tube Downloader, I sat down to watch my library only to find that when I connected the HDMI to TV, and saw the Big screen app load on the tv, it suddenly went blank on my Sony TV but the E7 was still showing big screen app.
I tried to adjust all the HDMI settings on my Sony LCD and the best i could achieve was about 5 secs display on the TV before it went blank.
Does anybody know what i am doing wrong because it worked perfectly before?
Look on the back of your tv. does it have an audio in 3.5mm jack socket ? if so all you need to do is buy a long enough 3..5 mm male to male jack cable to connect from your mac book headphone socket to the tv
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Wasn't sure, exactly, which particular forum this question would be most suited for, so thought I'd try here.
My question is basically about using my N8 with HDMI out (have Big Screen app installed) to use BBC iPlayer (basically a web-based real video app, similar to youtube, but allows you to "catch-up" with previously aired BBC TV programmes in the UK).
I've started using my N8 upstairs, on my bedroom TV - so currently have no LAN connections, and my N8 is the only way to watch programmes on iPlayer around the house (can use my Wii console for this purpose in the lounge).
Connectivity all seems to work OK, and manage to pair a spare Wii controller to the phone to control it (Big Screen app functionality?).
The one thing I'm curious / concerned about is what's on my phone screen whilst watching iPlayer on my TV over HDMI. Normally you use the break-out / fullscreen option when watching iPlayer on TV, so on my phone's screen, all the while I'm watching something, there's a web page in landscape, with a black box (about 1/3 of the screen size) of the video that's playing on the TV.
I have 2 questions about this:-
1. Will this cause any damage, "burn-in" or overuse of my phone's screen to watch programmes on my TV for a couple of hours? Have to say I'm not that up-to-date with usage best practices or things to avoid with things like AMOLED screens, just vaguely remember some concerns with plasma or LCD TV displays.
2. Is there any way to blank my phone's screen whilst watching this app (BBC iPlayer) on my TV? If I use the lock-key, the app stops / pauses.
Thanks for any advice or info.rayhipkiss wrote:
If I understand your questions correctly, you are concerned about damaging the AMOLED screen by keeping it on for lengthy periods. If so, then the more you use the display the shorter it's life span will be. If your concerned about " burn in ", the black box you describe will not cause any issues as that portion of the display is actually switched off.
AMOLED screens work by turning coloured organic LED's on or off to give an image, so any black areas means no LED's are active. You will only suffer burn in if a static image is being displayed for a certain length of time. Moving or changing images will not cause any burn in.
All the best.
Ray
Well I had read about certain OLED screens having a limited amount of usable hours, so that was partly my concern.
On the one hand, using it for iPlayer is something I could be doing directly on the phone - so in effect using up the screens available life - but on the other hand, if you're using the HDMI output, and big screen, you'd like to think it's possible to run with the phone's screen off / blanked.
When iPlayer is run, a portion of the screen is black - but the rest is a web page that will have static content - so some text, the odd icon here and there, that will be displayed on the phone's screen for all the time the programme is being watched. -
So you probably all have seen this kind of question before but here it goes, and thank you for reading.
The next apple I purchase will be a Cube because... As far as I know I can do this but that is why I am asking cause I want to know for sure. Will the Mac Mini beable to hook up to me big screen (Panny 50" DLP)? I have a HDMI hook up in the back and I can get a DVI to HDMI cable to hook up the Mini straight to it. Will the mini be able to handle the resolution of the Panasonic (I don't see why not)?
Any pointers or recommendations would be greatly appriciated. Thanks
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for HDR-HC1 Sony HD Handycam (WOW!)Shawn,
When I purchased my Mini I had sort of the same idea. I got the bluetooth keyboard and mouse and connected it up to a 50" LG Plasma. It worked OK, but 1024 x 768 was the highest resolution I could get to work. It appeared to me when you put a 1024x768 image on a 16:9 screen it stretched it a bit to make it fit, so the image was ever so slightly distorted. Also when I played 16:9 movies on the mini, I would still get the black bars at the top and bottom. I was a little disappointed in the results and moved the Mini back to an 18" LCD on my desk.
Anyway, that was my experience, your mileage may vary
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I'm a newcomer to the MacBook and I'm having trouble sending my desktop image to my big screen TV when running Windows (Bootcamp partition). With MacOSX there is no problem at all, just connecting the DVI -HDMI cable and success! But with Windows...I've tried to change the keyboard configuration (disabling the default MacBook F1 to F12) and trying the default keys Function + F3 or F4 and nothing...
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Are these the adapters you have? Does one fit correctly into the MBP the way it's supposed to? And the other fit correctly into that adapter and have a RCA video jack (normally yellow)?
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http://store.apple.com/us/product/M9267G/A?mco=MTY3ODQ5OTY
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Check this out guys!
http://betalabs.nokia.com/apps/nokia-big-screen
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Hello,
First of all I would like to apologize if I have posted this in the wrong section.
So I have the E-3000 and connected to this I have the Powerline AV Network Kit. One end to the router and the other end behind my Big screen. I have a 12 TB Seagate Nas Storage for my Media Server. I have this finally set up and my computers can watch movies streaming from the Media Server. I also have 3 USB Ethernet Adapters ready for deployment.
Before I do something foolish, I'd figure I ask you pros for some advice.
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http://usa.yamaha.com/products/audio-visual/av-receivers-amps/rx/rx-v665_black__u/?mode=model .
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When I had a PC I simply took the wire going to my monitor and connected to my big screen TV to watch Netflix movies...How do I take them from my IMAC and connect them to my TV now?
This could be problematic.
It will depend on what model of iMac you have.
You may want to post machine info.
blue apple > about this mac > more info button. Click on the hardware line. It has a little triangle in front of the work hardware.
Leave out the serial number.
Example:
Machine Name: iMac
Machine Model: PowerMac4,1
CPU Type: PowerPC 750 (33.11)
Number Of CPUs: 1
CPU Speed: 600 MHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 256 KB
Memory: 768 MB
Bus Speed: 100 MHz
Boot ROM Version: 4.1.9f1
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The 'hollywood' industry has been making it more difficult to get video out over time to prevent copying.
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<E-mail Edited by Host>It appears what happened is the installer though it was looking at a empty drive and just went ahead and installed.
I of course am assuming here you didn't use Disk Utility to format the drive first before installing, that would wipe out your files and programs for sure.
So what to do, what to do.
Well there is hope for you as long as the drive wasn't Filevaulted.
I'll explain. When a hard drive writes data for the first time to a drive, it starts at the very top and works it's way down.
When OS X was installed the first time, it was at the top of the drive, unless you upgraded then the upgraded OS X could have been written elsewhere.
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It's because when a hard drive deletes data or reformats, it doesn't remove the data off the drive or overwrites it immediately, it's just made so it's SPACE is available for new files to be written there.
So technically one can recover the deleted data off a non-encrypted/scrubbed hard drive with special software.
The way it does this is it reads the 1's and 0's of the files themselves, and through a lot of figuring out, can tell what that file is and what it belongs too.
So what you will have to do is this:
Create a data recovery/undelete external boot drive
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4437?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
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Tim in MdTransfer the movie from your iPad to your MacBook then. =)
iOS: How to transfer or sync content to your computer
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