But VGA will be low quality video. If you have an HD television, you won't get
HD signal that way.
Use HDMI first. If you can't use that, then use VGA, then composite, and
finally component video (the worst).
Bryan
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of Chris Blouch
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 4:03 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Mack Mini and Monitor?
Since your TV is kind of new it might have VGA inputs. Some do now days. If
that's the case you can skip the VGA to NTSC converter box. If not, the
converter has both RCA and SVideo (4-pin cable) outputs. Most TVs have SVideo
these days. All the cables come with it.
CB
Courtney Curran wrote:
This could be a dumb question, but my Tv's about 2 or 3 years old, does this matter? Thanks, Courtney
On 07/05/2010, at 3:01 in the Afternoon, Chris Blouch wrote:
It used to be that you could use a mini-DVI to NTSC to 'trick' the mini
into thinking there was a monitor but that stopped working when Apple dropped
the analog signals from their DVI implementation. Really, how many people still
had ntsc or pal TVs and were going to hook them up to a mini? Well, I'm one of
them so the best I could figure out was to get the miniDVI to VGA adapter and
then a VGA to NTSC converter. Now my mini thinks there is a VGA display hooked
up all the time, whether or not the TV is actually on. Whether you come out
ahead cost wise doing this is another thing, but you'll probably want the VGA
hook up anyway.
So depending on which Mini you have you'll either needs the
Apple Mini DVI to VGA adapter for $20
http://store.apple.com/us/product/M9320G/A?mco=MTY3ODQ5OTY
or the Apple DisplayPort to VGA adapter for $30
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB572Z/A?mco=MTY3ODQ5OTY
I think newer Minis come with both so you could go with the
cheaper MiniDVI to VGA adapter and then a VGA to NTSC adapter. I found a cheap
one which runs off the USB power for $30 here:
http://sewelldirect.com/pc-to-tv.asp
Hope this helps.
CB
Bryan Smart wrote:
If there was an FAQ for this list, the frustrating and repetitious subject of Minis and monitors would probably be at the top. I know that there is no reason to assume that newbies should know this, so there is no reason to blast them, but it gets so old covering this over and over again. We literally seem to have a thread about it 2 or 3 times a week.
No, the Mini and VoiceOver won't work right without a
monitor.
Yes, that's why Safari and other apps always say that they're
"busy, busy, busy, busy".
No, there is no adaptor that you can plug in to it that
will fake a monitor being attached.
No, the Mini isn't supposed to be a portable computer.
No, Apple isn't going to do anything to fix this in the
future, as far as we know.
Don't feel bad, Courtney. Lots of other people assume,
like you, that this will work. It doesn't. No way that you could know without
asking in advance. Hope that this helps and saves time.
Maybe this is reason #1 to start an FAQ for this list?
Bryan
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Romack
Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 4:46 PM
To: MacVisionaries
Subject: Re: Mack Mini and Monitor?
A couple points to note here:
Ben - Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Rude, much? Consider that new members join
this list every day, and they aren't privi to previous threads, unless they have no
social life and sit and read every message dated back to the conception of this list.
Apple picked a name for this product line that draws the to the assumption that the
computer is "mini" enough to be portable. Consider that not everyone is as
informed as you. Okay?
For the sake of this thread, and the notion that Ben may
explode in a fiery ball of rage with what I am about to propose - what if an
adapter was plugged into the display port of the Mini, but no display was
actually attached? Could one purchase some sort of VGA-to-RCA adapter (if one
such adapter exists), and plug it into something portable that receives RCA-in?
Just a thought from an ignorant Apple- head.
romack
www.justinromack.com <http://www.justinromack.com/>
twitter.com/justinromack
On May 6, 8:00 am, "Neil James" <[email protected]>
<mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
Ben, if you had read the post more carefully, perhaps you wouldn't have been so quick to fly off the handle? The question was if there exists a portable monitor not how portable the mini is. To answer the original question though, the smallest monitor I have come across, was a screen size of 12 inches, so while doable, it isn't exactly a portable monitor.
Neil
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Mustill-Rose" <[email protected]>
<mailto:[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>
<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 11:45 AM
Subject: Re: Mack Mini and Monitor?
Not portable in the sense that you could carry it to work.
How many times do we have to say to people that a mini is
not portable?
On 05/05/2010, Courtney Curran <[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
Since a new Mack mini apparently must have a monitor,
are there any portable monitors like USB monitors or
something. I take my Mack mini to work a lot.
I'm not using any monitor now, Safari seems busy a lot,
but is still very functional.
Thanks,
Courtney
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