On Jul 12, 2010, at 4:14 PM, Eric Herbert wrote:
PS: HDMI and DVI are standard connections on most modern TV sets (Well the decent ones anyway). Skip S-Video, the quality is horrible.
The new standard for modern TVs will be HDbaseT which uses standard ethernet cables that are a lot cheaper than pricey HDMI or DVI cables.
Most HDTVs have a VGA port for use with computers. Some of the HDMI and DVI ports on HDTVs are incompatible with computer usage, and this will normally be noted only in the small print in the user manual under information about these ports. DVI-to-HDMI converter cables don't always work. DVI wasn't made to carry audio, whereas HDMI was designed for both audio & video. Some video cards port audio output through DVI ports, and some cables patch audio output into DVI-to-HDMI adapter cables, but not always. I don't think most G5 DVI ports carry any audio signals, so using a DVI-to-HDMI adapter cable might be problematic for audio.
As we've discussed before, HDTV has really poor resolution compared to computer monitors. DVDs also have relatively poor resolution (720x480), which means that a DVD can't even fill an iPhone 4g screen at max resolution, which is 960x640 for the iPhone.
Because of the lack of any HDMI output ports for the G5, and the audio problems that might be encountered with DVI-to-HDMI convertor cables, I'd probably lean toward using a VGA cable combined with an audio mini- jack patch cable using the standard VGA computer port of most HDTVs.
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