Mac mini on my 40" hd lcd

hi my mini turns up in 2 days and im wondering what its likely to look like on the 40" hd lcd and what input to use the tele says vga input marked pc but tele also has composite, component and hdmi, any body had any experience in this area any help would be apreciated thanks joe oh the tele says 1360x768 at 60hz whatever that means

The preference pane is on the mini. In the dock at the bottom of the screen you'll see a square 'metallic' icon with a grey apple logo. If you click on that it opens the collection of preference panes where you can set configuration for various things about the system - including display resolution.
For web browsing, it depends to some degree on the TV, but VGA is typically the fuzziest of all the connection methods. At the right resolution (ie, the best the screen can manage) it should be OK, but it won't look very good at lower settings like 800x600 because the pixels will then be large enough to be visible on that sized screen.
I've not had a mini connected via HDMI, but I've seen favorable reports here, and while s-video is better than VGA, it's not greatly so in my experience.

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Hey Spost!
You have explained exactly what happened to me last night. I was afraid it was part of the 10.8.3 update or the latest ATV software update that hit this week. I tried from my macbook pro and the airplay from 10.8.3 and the atv software worked fine.
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Here's a good explanation of the various flavours of DVI:
http://www.datapro.net/techinfo/dvi_info.html
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Thanks,
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I'm confused about your comment "it wanted me to change the resolution of the mac to 1360 x 768 at 60 Hz." I presume the way this was communicated was through a dialog box, correct? But if you could see a dialog box, that means you had a working screen at one point, correct? Why don't you just run at that resolution?

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I intend to use the mac mini with a 26" HD LCD TV
with a resolition of 1366 * 768. Can anyone tell me
if this will give a good quality display?
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Hey,
I just connected a friends mac mini to my philips 30" LCD through a VGA port...
was working great on 1280 x 1024 res (except it didnt fill the width) then i tried 1280 x 960 which looked sharper but still didnt fil the full width - then i hit 1280 x 768... tv screen went black and a "unsupported video input" message appeared (tv generated)
Tried restarting both... repeatedly - everything goes fine up to the mac login screen - after that the same message appears again... and again and again... etc
tried resetting factory settings on the tv... everyting i can think of... cant understand why it appears fine up until login... then nothing!
do i need an adaptor? there's a vga adaptor on the mini already as it was hooked up to a siemens flat panel monitor? is this a wrong adaptor?
CAN ANYONE HELP? - please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
thanks,
Gar
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Below is the official Apple article on how to handle such situations. If it still doens't work, write back. There are other things to try.
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That's probably the source of your problems, and the ones in the thread...
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Your correct, you would need an Apple DVI to ADC adapter, And ether mini display port to DVI OR HDMI to DVI adapter. (just a question of witch port you want to use)
Apple DVI to ADC adapter when they were first released cost about 120; now they're kind of rare and harder to find. Online they can go for 200 dollars. so 120 to 200 dollars to make your display work; and displays don't last for ever they have parts that will break down. Older displays have a light bulb inside them; witch burn out just like all the other light bulbs in your house.
Also DVI to ADC adapters can some times give you blurry images and or text.
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The company I bought it from is not Apple, and I may regret that. It was in my price range, though.
This is the first time I've used this community, and I've been a Mac owner since 2000. Thanks in advance!

when you say "Mac flat screen LCD", do you mean this:
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