On 7/13/10 12:11 AM, pdimage wrote:
On 12/7/10 22:07, "John Carmonne"<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi All
I want to get a large screen TV that I can connect my PM G5 Dual 2.7 to and be
able to watch DVD images. What do I need to be able to do this? ,I don't want
to watch iTunes stuff just full on DVD images like I do now by mounting them
with Toast and playing on my VIZIO display. Any solutions would be
appreciated.
There are a myriad of converters out there to enable this - most newish
large screen tvs have vga or dvi input and will take a straight connection
as a second monitor. The audio can go straight from the G5 minijack
headphone port to a hifi or music system if you have one via a minijack to
stereo left and right rca (red and white) plugs. If you want the audio into
the tv also - you can use a scart adapter (one comes with every Xbox) on an
external port of the tv with composite video and audio rca sockets - then
you just need a vga to composite (single yellow) rca cable from the mac and
you can run video and sound through the tv. Resolution shouldn't be a
problem as HDTV is still pretty low res compared to monitors.
HDTV isn't low res by any stretch. If you go through composite or
S-Video it's going to be crappy regardless of screen resolution. It
will be okay for DVD but VGA or DVI is going to be nicer.
Also you can use a simple cable to go from DVI to HDMI on the TV.
Pretty much any HDTV will have VGA, DVI or HDMI.
For watching video it's a good idea to limit the video resolution to
something a little more than the required resolution. This way the TV
is handling the load of scaling the image up rather than having the Mac
do the work. If you want to use the TV as a large screen for other
stuff then set the video out to match the screen resolution.
--
Clark Martin
Redwood City, CA, USA
Macintosh / Internet Consulting
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