Macbook-To-TV Quality.

[Sicarius]

I want to get the min-DVI to video, so I can use my 27" SDTV as a monitor. My question is: Is the quality good enough to buy the mini-DVI and an audio out-type thing as well? (Probably around $50 total)? Or will the quality be hardly recognizable.

 

[j26]

iPhoto hates it, but works (under protest) and the quality of text is pretty poor. You have to increase the text size to make it legible. I tried it on a 32" and found it quite poor, as an SD tv doesn't have the resolution

Basically connecting to an SD tv is only useful for movies and video chat.

 

[Gee]

iPhoto hates it, but works (under protest) and the quality of text is pretty poor. You have to increase the text size to make it legible. I tried it on a 32" and found it quite poor, as an SD tv doesn't have the resolution

Basically connecting to an SD tv is only useful for movies and video chat.

Agreed, the quality is pretty crappy and unusable for much apart from watching movies. I also had problems with the aspect ratio - the comp wouldn't recognise the widescreen aspect of the TV.

 

[Arne]

don't expect to get a good quality for text on any TV with any computer. that's not what TVs are designed for. You should limit youself to use it for Photos and Videos.

 

[Romulus]

I use mine with a 32 SDTV and like everyone said - the only thing to use it for is video and maybe pictures. I use it to play all those divx movies I have. Oh, it worked great with Front Row and iTunes visualization. That's about it, you won't be able to actually work on that display, and I don't think you would want to... I think the SDTV resolution is like 640 by 480 or something.

 

[ZballZ]

Its a TV and therefore obviously has standard tv resolution:

this is 720x576 for PAL (european standard) and 720x486 for NTSC (north-american standard)

 

[Mhill]

I don't know what SD TV is, but i'm looking at buying a 26inch HD LCD and tried my MacBook out on a panel in Comet and it was awesome.

 

[ZballZ]

I don't know what SD TV is, but i'm looking at buying a 26inch HD LCD and tried my MacBook out on a panel in Comet and it was awesome.

SD = standard definition (look at resolutions above)

HD = high definition (beware that there are two standards roaming! - 1080i and 1080p (true high definition)

 

[dpaanlka]

I don't know what SD TV is, but i'm looking at buying a 26inch HD LCD and tried my MacBook out on a panel in Comet and it was awesome.

Well... not really - even HDTVs are still really low resolutions for how big they are. They are not meant to be computer displays. A 42" HDTV may have a native resolution of 1366 x 768. Many HDTVs (like Dell's 30") are only 1024 x 768.

That's less than the 13" MacBook.

Now compare that to the resolution of the Apple 30" Cinema, a display that is meant to be used with a computer. It has a resolution of 2560 x 1600.