Hooking up to LCD tv

We would like to hook up our MAC book to our LCD tv. What do we need to do to get both audio and video.

Go to your nearest Apple store or look online at Apple.com. You will need a DVI or a mini-DVI to video or HDMI cable, depending on the clarity you want.

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Hooking up 17" LCD Flat Panel Apple Monitor to an older G4

I have an older G4 and bought a 17" LCD Flat Panel Apple Monitor Studio Display to use with it. However, the plug from the monitor doesn't fit into any of the G4 connections. Am I crazy? I thought these monitors were created for the G4s. I tried the USB port, but nothing happened. Am I gonna have to get an adapter?
Sorry to be so ignorant. Can anyone help?
Thank you in advance.

The Apple Studio Display 17 (LCD) \[Clear lucite with white] has an ADC connector. Displays with ADC connector require a computer that supplies the required 25 Volt power through the cable, or if you use a DVI to ADC converter (with its own AC power cord) you can use a display card with DVI connector.
Which older G4 or what speed in MHz?
The PCI graphics and AGP Graphics cannot supply the 25 Volts to power this display. Gigabit Ethernet and later have the Power supply and the fingers in the AGP slot to pass that power to an ADC-equipped card.

Converting files to 720p / hooking up to LCD

ok, I have a few questions. I've recently downloaded some High Def 720p files onto my computer which i want to transfer to my ps3 so I can watch them in HD. as far as i know thats the only way it would work, unless somehow dvi -> hdmi cable would be high def but i don't believe that dvi is. Is there a good program for converting my HD files to a file that i can put onto my ps3 that won't take forever? I'm using visual hub right now but i don't really understand what format to put them to if i want to them to still be HD on my ps3. also would i be best off to just put the HD files onto my ps3 and just connect my computer to my LCD tv for files in non hd to save the time transfering onto my external and then onto my ps3? One last thing, has anyone ripped a dvd onto their computer into 720p before, how long did it take?
thanks
i feel like i wasn't to clear so just ask if i need to explain something better

Leo Cieslak wrote:
thanks, some guy at the mac store said dvi wouldn't do 1080p
He was misinformed. Single-link DVI is the most common interface
for monitors up to 1920 x 1200 x 60 Hz, and dual-link DVI extends
the bandwidth to at least twice that. (iMac is single-link only.)
i have an optical audio thing on the back of my tv is is there
a chord i could use to go form my comp to that for audio.
Yes, the iMac's audio output "headphone jack" is actually an
analog/digital "combo jack" -- it will accept either a 3.5 mm
analog stereo plug or a 3.5 mm mini-TOSLINK optical plug.
The optical audio on your TV is probably standard-size TOSLINK,
in which case you'll need a mini-to-standard TOSLINK adaptor or
cable. I believe RadioShack still carries both -- or for great
prices online, try: http://monoprice.com
if i have high def files on my comp it would remain high def
through the dvi right?
Yes, DVI is just an older version of HDMI; the video signals
are electrically compatible. DVI-to-HDMI adapters just re-map
the connector pins -- no electronics or logic required.
Looby

Macbook, Mini DVI to Composite/S-Video and Vizio 32" LCD. HELP: Resolution

So I bought this adapter to hook-up my LCD TV to the Macbook, and I cannot get the correct resolution for this TV.
"32" HD 1366 x 768 native LCD HDTV" is the Specs.
NOW, I did download SwitchResX, but was unsuccessful in registering the custom 1366 x 768 resolution, the LCD TV simply prompts: "No Signal"
Under 1280x768 the TV does work, but it looks blurry.
Please Help

The Mini DVI to Composite/S-Video is for use at standard TV resolutions, such as 640 x 480. Fo the full 1366 x 768 try using a DVI to HDMI cable with the Mini-DVI to DVI adapter
<http://store.apple.com/us/product/M9321G/B?fnode=home/shopmac/macaccessories/displays&mco=MTgyNTQ>
or use VGA with the Mini-DVI to VGA adapter
<http://store.apple.com/us/product/M9320G/A?fnode=home/shopmac/macaccessories/displays&mco=MTgyNTU>

Dell 24" LCD monitor shows barely perceptible lag

I have a Power Mac G5 and just bought a Dell 24" LCD monitor, the 2405FPW, for $825. After happily clearing off my desk of two old CRT's and connecting it up and using it for a couple days, I began to notice a lag between anything I did and when it would appear on the screen. The lag is barely noticeable, but I tend to mouse around very quickly and need precise control of the pointer, and after hours of use, the slight discrepancy seems to be causing me fatigue. It's also a problem when playing Quake (fast-action first-person shooter game). The lag doesn't exist with my old Sony 19" CRT.
Before jumping to any conclusions that I'm insane, please look at this short video clip that clearly demonstrates the same problem. It's quite amazing to see. The video is linked from this page:
<http://weblogs.asp.net/ryanw/archive/2004/09/23/233681.aspx>
(You may have to save it to your desktop and then double-click it to see it.)
The guy hooked both an LCD and a CRT monitor to his machine and spanned a window across the boundary between the two. Then he videotaped what happens if you move the window up and down. You can see clearly that the LCD screen takes longer before it draws its half of the window. Ouch!! He compares using his LCD monitor to "swimming in molasses" (which later spawns an interesting discussion involving a hazmat worker and an overturned tanker of molasses), but I wouldn't go that far.
I ran the same experiment in the video and got the same results (and so did my dad, with his Powerbook Pismo, which is interesting because he never noticed the lag through normal, daily use of the computer). Then I took my Sony CRT to the Apple store and hooked it up next to a 23" Apple Cinema Display. I did the same experiment and there was no lag!! So unless someone has a solution for the Dell monitor, the $500 price difference might be the price I'll have to pay for Mac compatibility. I might wait as long as I can for the price to go down (the salesperson said the last price reduction was last November).
Very few people seem to experience this problem in general (or don't notice it), so I have no idea why it's affecting my system. It's basically a stock dual 2GHz G5, running Mac OS X 10.4.4, with 2.5GB RAM and stock graphics card which should more than handle this (ATI Radeon 9600 Pro, 64MB, AGP 8x). I'm using the digital monitor connection, as opposed to VGA. I'm running very few preference panes and kernel extensions. Dell tech support would have nothing to do with the issue because they don't support Macs, but after some finagling, I finally got the monitor returned with a full refund. My suspicion is that some sort of driver somewhere needs to be updated, but with no support from Dell (their web site doesn't even seem to have a support section for their own monitors), I'm not sure who to expect this from or when.
This problem is subtle and many find it unnoticeable, if they're even experiencing it. So I would like to know if anyone else has a Dell LCD and a regular CRT monitor both hooked up to their system and could try the experiment in the video to confirm "scientifically" that they don't experience this problem!
Scott
www.teresi.us
Power Mac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.4) Basically a stock system. Dual 2GHz, 2.5GB RAM, ATI Radeon 9600 Pro (64MB)

My post has started a more extensive discussion on this problem at an Ars Technica forum:
<http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee/forums?a=tpc&s=50009562&f=67909965&m=41 90936913&r=796009877731#796009877731>
It appears that the problem may be inherent in all PVA-based LCD's, which include the Dell 2405FPW. It's not noticeable by everyone but so far everyone I've seen who's taken the time to run an objective test has uncovered the lag. If you can run the test, please do! (See earlier in this thread, or see the Ars Technica thread for a better test involving a stopwatch program run on two monitors).
The good news is Apple's 23" Cinema Display is based on a SIPS LCD panel (as is a similar HP display, and I think a Sony display), and these don't suffer from the lag.
Scott

17" Studio LCD Display connect to G3

I recently purchased a 17" Studio LCD Display which came with an ADC to DVI adapter.
Then I picked up an adapter, but it was the wrong kind. It was DVI to VGA which still required the present VGA/G3 adapter ... the connection was going through three adapters that way. The monitor didn't light up. When I pressed the On/Off button (bottom right on front of display) the button lit up while my finger was on it and then faded to dark when I removed my finger. The system did not recognize the connection on the pci card either. I was able to hook everything up physically but the display didn't go on.
When I plugged the UBS pigtail in, my system could see and recognize the monitor on the UBS port. So apparently, the driver software won't be a problem.
Rather than putzing with adapters and connectors, I'd prefer to swap out the VGA card with a DVI video card for the G3. Is there such a video card available for the G3?
Is this even feasible?
The reason I need to keep this G3 is because it has a SCSI port (running Classic 9.2.2) which I require for an expensive high end scanner. Until I can find a comparable unit compatible with my new iMac I'd like to keep the G3 but would really like to hook up the lcd display on it.
Any ideas?

Exactly my problem too (and many others surely!)
I have a macbook and a 17" LCD studio display which has a plug with 30 pins. As understand it, it is a DVI-I dual ink.
I was about to buy the DVI adaptor from the mac store as it would appear to do the job but I learned that it is DVI-D and not DVI-I as is required. I searched for another picture of this adaptor (the pic on the mac store is decidely unhelpful) and it is clear from looking at it that it will not fit.
Anyone know what to do here?
G5 Mac OS X (10.4.9)
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Need help with LCD projector

I am new to mac book pro. Need to use for presentations - hooked up to LCD Projector. When connected, the projector only shows my wallpaper or a ppt slide show. What do I need to do to project other files or websites?

Oh wow, nevermind, just figured it out myself. Found the mirroring box:)

Connecting an LCD Projector

I hooked up a LCD projector to the MacBook Pro and can see the Desktop, but when I try to run IPhoto it plays on laptop, but only the original image of the desktop is still projected. Is there a setting somewhere that would allow me to see IPhoto slideshows projected from the laptop? Please go easy on me, I am a new Mac owner and computer challenged.
Thanks

Mirror the displays by changing the setting in System Preferences --> Displays

14" imac 1.83GHz LCD screen suddenly too bright

My computer screen is suddenly too bright with a sort of a white washed look. I've checked the display settings and brightness in System Preferences and played with the greyscale and white on black options in the Universal Access panel, all to no avail.
I hooked up an LCD projector and the projected image is perfectly normal while the computer display is impossible to read. Even the most dim setting is too bright. Help!

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Widescreen lcd

I purchased a westinghouse 17" widescreen monitor (1280x768) and hooked it up to my ibook. I'm having a problem where the new monitor has a shaky screen. It looks kind of like a VCR tracking error with the screen slightly shaking.
I can hook the new lcd up to my PC and it looks fine and I can hook a standard CRT monitor to the ibook and it also looks fine.
The VGA cable was missing from the box so I took one off another monitor... could this be a cause of the problem. I noticed that the pin layout on various monitor cables seems to be different sometimes...
Anyone else have any similar experiences?
p.s. I like how spell check considers iBook incorrect spelling

I've got a Westinghouse widescreen 27" HDTV and I have my iBook hooked up to it via the VGA at 1280 x 720. I got the "shaking" (little white horizontal lines bouncing around the right side of the screen) and was able to remove it by lowering the refresh rate of the screen in the display preferences.
Screen Spanning Doctor cuts the VRAM of your iBook in half, so that may have something to do with it, or in my case, the television might not support a higher refresh rate.

Using Mini DVI to VGA adapter on MacBook

I bought the adapter from Apple & hooked up my LCD monitor to the MacBook, but the video I get on the monitor is different that on my laptop. It has an old screen background & the dock but nothing on my desktop shows up. Also, when I'm plugged to the monitor, my dock disappears on the laptop screen. Is there some setting I need to change? It worked fine with my G4 PowerBook.
Thanks for any help....
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.6)

i use the mini dvi-vga adapter in my classroom almost everyday. It sounds like your new monitor is running as a side by side monitor to your display instead of a "replacement" display.
To get your projector/monitor to basically show whatever is on your macbook screen once you've hooked up press F7....this should make your projector/monitory become your display with your dock & all of your desktop stuff. Your new monitor will completely mirror your display.
THis should do what you're looking for.

MacBook Pro Mini-DVI to HDMI problems - not consistent

I have a MacBook Pro and I'm trying to hook my LG LCD up from the Mini-DVI to HDMI cable. Sometimes the TV is recognized no problem, but sometimes the TV doesn't receive the signal, any thoughts on how to make sure the TV is always recognized?
I saw a post once about having the macbook boot connected to the TV to recognize it, and it worked, but I think I'm missing something again because I can't seem to do it again! I'm looking for the post but can't find it!

Just to add, i think the cables are all in working order as when i plug in the adapter to the macbook the screen temporarily goes blue then back to normal desktop. This only happens if the cables are plugged into the back of the TV. However they two still wont recognise each other.

Mini display to VGA weirdness - need help connecting to CRT

Hello,
I am new here and recently purchased a Mac Mini (2011, 2.3 Mhz i5 model).
I am probably in the vast minority as far as monitor choices go, as I am using a NEC FE2111SB CRT monitor. 20" viewable, looks good or better than most LCDs, so I see no need to replace it. I have the mac hooked up via a mini display to VGA adapter and it works, but has some weird problems.
When booting to Windows 7 through bootcamp, the screen starts off all white (like normal), but then goes black. Nothing. I wait a while, then my normal Windows login screen eventually pops up. So for whatever reason, the entire Windows boot screen (one with win 7 logo, etc) won't show up at all.
The boot screen does show up if hooked to a LCD. But I tested two CRTs, and the boot screen is black for both, no signal.
I was guessing that perhaps the boot screen used a weird resolution or refresh rate through Apple's EFI, so I figured I'd try several things. First was simply changing the resolution on the mac side of things. And then I noticed other weirdness. If Lion is set to high resolutions, say 1200x960, or 1600x1200 (or anything besides 1024x768), then I also lose the white (apple) screen that typically pops up when starting the machine. The white screen being what you see when it first starts, then you can press the keyboard to get the apple OS choices (if bootcamp is installed).
So basically what I have is: if I leave lion at 1024x768, I get the white apple boot screen, and it boots into lion normally.
If lion is anything besides 1024x768, I lose the white boot screen, and am loading lion blindly, just waiting for the lion login to hopefully pop up eventually.
If lion is set at 1024x768, then I do get the mac boot screen, yet bootcamp/windows is all black until windows 7 boots up. I have not found any resolution or refresh rate at all that will allow me to see the windows 7 boot screen when using bootcamp, and this adapter + CRT.
Any suggestions? I have tried two minidisplay to vga adapters, apple's and rocketfish, both had the same problems. Although I found the apple branded one to be a little more finicky than the rocketfish adapter.

Possibly too many adapters.
Signal strength dropped off when I used minidisplay-to-DVI/DVI-to-VGA/VGA-keyboard-viedo-mouse splitter, and "nothing" came through. minidisplay-to-DVI/DVI cable worked fine.

Since I put Mountain Lion on my MacAir my PowerPoint and Keynote Presentations freeze up when I am presenting. This is so unacceptable when I have 75 - 500 people I am presenting in front of. I can no longer use my presenter tool either. Is there help

Since I put Mountain Lion on my MacAir, my Power Point presentations freeze up when hooked to an LCD projector. I can no longer use my presenter clicker tool that moves my slides as I walk among my audiences. This is totally unacceptable in the kind of work that I do. The Genius Bar person told me to try Keynote but that is even worse. I wanted to go back to Snow Leopard but because I have backed up my information on an external hard drive she said I cannot go back to Snow Leopard. Does anyone know of a solution to this problem? I have several presentations coming up in the next six weeks.

You need to move to Windows 7, because Apple is now releasing a new OS X version annually and it's playing havoc with people's hardware and software.
Windows 7 will get support until 2020, that's 8 years of software stability, however you do need to make System Restore disks, boot disk and another on a hard drive to self restore (like TimeMachine is for OS X)
Apple has no plans to change their currrent behavior as all they care about is selling new hardware with a shiny new OS X verison on it.
If you wait to move, what will happen is you'll lose that full 8 years and will have to swtich to a newer Windows sooner
Windows 7 machines are still widely avaialble, despite Windows 8 (a failure) being pushed currently.
Running three OS X operating systems on one machine is quite a chore reserved for only seasoned computer geeks, then it's only going to last X months as the next OS X version will be released, then the next a year after that.
Another method would be to get a virtual machine software (virtualbox is free) and install Windows 7 into that to ease your transitition if you cant' spring for a Windows 7 machine, preferablly a tower that will last a long time.
Here is a method to run Snow Leopard in Parallels, however it's a unapproced hack and not for the comptuer newbie.
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1365439
We have no control over Apple's OS X release cycle, nor the third party developers who make their own decisions what to support.
Our only choice as users to stop using both products and seek software/hardware stability.

Any way to connect two external displays?

Hello,
I have a quick question about connecting my PowerBook G4 15'' (machine model: Powerbook 5,6) to some external displays.
I am trying to connect it to both a Samsung Syncmaster LCD and my TV.
Currently, I am able to connect to each successfully, but only one at a time.
My Samsung syncmaster LCD is connected via the DVI port on my powerbook, and using the DVI to VGA adapter, since the Samsung LCD is VGA. My TV is connected via S-Video, though I do have the s-video to composite adapter that came with my powerbook if it makes a difference.
Anyways, my problem is I want to be able to use all three displays at once (the powerbook screen, my samsung LCD, and my TV), but i can only get one of the external displays working at a given time, and have to unplug the DVI (samsung lcd) to get the TV to be detected and activated as an external display.
Any suggestions will be much appreciated. If there is some adapter I need to buy to make all this work, thats fine, just tell me what it is.
Thank you for all your time.
Regards,
Matt Ellison
PowerBook G4 15" (machine model: Powerbook 5,6) Mac OS X (10.4.3)

This solution was previously pointed out to me on the 17" PowerBook forum. I don't have one and don't know how well it works. Last I saw they didn't have drivers for Tiger, yet.
http://www.villagetronic.com/
I expect you would hook your SyncMaster LCD to the VT Book and then use the S-Video port on the PB to connect the TV.

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