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Macbook To My HDTV? (VGA Not Working, HDMI?)

Hey im having trouble connecting my macbook to my sony bravia tv. I was hoping for a little help. I got the mini dvi to dvi adapter and the hdmi to dvi cable however when i hook it up to the tv only abunch of lines appear on the tv. I was wondering what my problem was. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
thanks
 
Resevdog said:
Your story is nearly identical to mine, but I have the solution for you and it worked for me.

I have a Panasonic HDTV and a Macbook. I originally had the mini-dvi to video adapter and while it worked, it only could connect via s-video at best and that just didn't cut it on the big screen. So I went to my friendly neighborhood Mac store (5th Ave, NY, a zoo!) and found a relatively cheap solution. You'll need to spend about $40 but you'll get up to 1080p!

You're getting two things. First, the mini-dvi to dvi dongle from apple. $19. This gets you from the Macbook to a female dvi connector.

Next, you need the Belkin dvi to HDMI 6 foot cable. also only $19! It has a male dvi connection and the HDMI connection.

Connect the two dvi ends together. The rest is self explanatory. It works beautifully!
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You think that was a good deal? Try getting a 15ft hdmi cable for $2.50 and a DVI Port to HDMI adapter for $9.95! Try amazon folks!
 
Resevdog said:
Your story is nearly identical to mine, but I have the solution for you and it worked for me.

I have a Panasonic HDTV and a Macbook. I originally had the mini-dvi to video adapter and while it worked, it only could connect via s-video at best and that just didn't cut it on the big screen. So I went to my friendly neighborhood Mac store (5th Ave, NY, a zoo!) and found a relatively cheap solution. You'll need to spend about $40 but you'll get up to 1080p!

You're getting two things. First, the mini-dvi to dvi dongle from apple. $19. This gets you from the Macbook to a female dvi connector.

Next, you need the Belkin dvi to HDMI 6 foot cable. also only $19! It has a male dvi connection and the HDMI connection.

Connect the two dvi ends together. The rest is self explanatory. It works beautifully!
Click to expand...
They have cables cheap on amazon. Just bought a mini display port to dvi for 6 bucks. There are all sorts of them, I recall seeing a mini dvi to dvi one I think..
 
Hey, thank you all very much for the information. I have used the minidvi to dvi and dvi to hdmi cables to connect my macbook to my Samsung hdtv. That worked beautifully. I also used a mini toslink to toslink for audio. I plugged the toslink into the digital audio output (optical) on my tv, however I have no audio. Any ideas how to get the audio working? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
 
Sorry to resurrect and old forum but I have just bought a VGA adapter and a VGA - HDMI cable. I have set this up with my Philips 1080p HD TV but the MBP will not recognise the display. Is this because of the convoluted way I have a VGA - HDMI wire? Should I just buy a HDMI adapter and HDMI wire?

Thanks for any help in advance (first time poster so be nice :))
 
Toobin said:
Sorry to resurrect and old forum but I have just bought a VGA adapter and a VGA - HDMI cable. I have set this up with my Philips 1080p HD TV but the MBP will not recognise the display. Is this because of the convoluted way I have a VGA - HDMI wire? Should I just buy a HDMI adapter and HDMI wire?

Thanks for any help in advance (first time poster so be nice :))
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VGA = Analog
HDMI = Digital

What you're trying to do will not work. The digital signal that HDMI needs is not available when you use the VGA adapter. You need to get the DVI adapter and use DVI->HDMI instead.
 
Vizio will not display Macbook applications

I'm trying to hook up my Macbook to a Vizio at my office via mini-DVI-to-VGA adapter and am having limited success. The TV is displaying my Mac wallpaper but does not display any applications or real-time activity (not even icons on my desktop). What the eff? I already hook it up to my 46" Bravia at home with no problem whatsoever. It is obviously detecting the computer so how/why is it pulling my standalone background without anything else?

I tried with one of my office's Dell laptops and the TV simply did not recognize it either which I assume is a resolution issue judging by the previous posts.
 
FranklinBluth22 said:
I'm trying to hook up my Macbook to a Vizio at my office via mini-DVI-to-VGA adapter and am having limited success. The TV is displaying my Mac wallpaper but does not display any applications or real-time activity (not even icons on my desktop). What the eff? I already hook it up to my 46" Bravia at home with no problem whatsoever. It is obviously detecting the computer so how/why is it pulling my standalone background without anything else?

I tried with one of my office's Dell laptops and the TV simply did not recognize it either which I assume is a resolution issue judging by the previous posts.
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Go to the Displays prefpane. Under "Arrangement", check "Mirror". When you don't check that, one of the displays will act as an extra piece, and you can move windows and icons back and forth, but it won't show anything by default.
 
connect macbook pro to tv through mini diplay port and hdmi

when you connect your labtop to the television it acts as another monitor so just drag the video your trying to play all the way to the left off of the screen and it will continue and pop up on your television screen. Just his apple f from there and it will play on the tv:D
 
Hello- sorry to bump this thread again, but i did a google search and this describes my problem i think.

what i have

so i plug one end of my vga cable to the tv, and the other end to the vga-dvi adapter, which is in turn plugged in to my mac.

so tv <-> vga - vga <-> dvi <-> macbook

my mac recognizes my tv (and i click "display mirror" in system preferences), and it is at 1024 X 768, 75 Hz, but no display is showing up on my tv (not sure if i have to change some setting on the tv? but either way, i've set it to "tv", "analog" and "digital" and none work.)

any help would be appreciated! thanks.

eta: so i think i may need to but these instead?

display port to dvi adapter. can anybody confirm that the one linked to at the top of this page works for the old macbooks? 2007 i mean.
hdmi-dvi
 
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