I have a Dell HD TV. What do you think I should be able to set it to? I also
have a Mac Book Pro.
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From: "Chris Blouch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 1:49 PM
Subject: Re: Mac to TV
Assuming you just want to mirror what's on your mac to the external
display. You need to go to System Preferences and then Displays under the
Hardware section. The Mac detects what screens are connected at startup so
if you add a screen later you'll need to tell the Mac to look for it. In
the Displays preference panel you'll find a button that says "Detect
Displays". Clicking this should get the mac to notice you have two screens
instead of just one. On some Macs this screen adds more space but on
lower-end macs it just goes into mirroring automagically. If you have a
higher end mac you should now see another tab in the Display preferences
called Arrangement. If you select that tab you should find a checkbox that
says Mirror displays. Once mirrored you might have to set the resolution
to whatever your two displays can handle. Regular TVs are a very low
640x480 safe area and fuzzy at that. If you have something nicer it should
be able to handle higher resolutions.
Hope this helps.
CB
Darcy Burnard wrote:
Hmmm, that I can't help you with. Perhapse there's something in the
displays section of system preferences.
Darcy
On 19-Sep-07, at 2:06 AM, VaShaun Jones wrote:
Yes it has a VGA connection on the TV and their is one on the computer.
What I need to know is the keystroke to transfer the video from the
computer directly to the TV. Basically using the TV as a monitor.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Darcy Burnard"
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Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 3:00 AM
Subject: Re: Mac to TV
Hi. I believe this will work. The thing is to get the DVI port in to
something your tv will accept. Does your tv have a vga port on it, is
that how you were doing it before?
Darcy
On 19-Sep-07, at 1:42 AM, VaShaun Jones wrote:
Listers my broken window can connect to my TV using a VGA cord and by
pressing function F8 to display the video. I was wondering if the Mac
has the same setup? I want the video output to go to my TV so if I
need to demonstrate something to a sighted person I can do so using
the TV.
