mini to a 55" 1080p tv, will text be readable?

[gagaliya]

I know most of you guys who has the mac mini hooked up to a tv for multimedia stuff, but i am looking to do iphone development (coding, lots of text files). Will a mac mini hooked up to a 55" 1080p tv have readable text? or will the resolution not be high enough.

Also in term of the actual setup, i am thinking mac mini -> dvi+optical to hdmi adapter -> tv hdmi input.

will that work? do such adapter exist, that has dvi + opitcal on one end, then hdmi on the other end.

thanks

 

[gr8tfly]

I have a 50" plasma at about 8-10' viewing distance. Text is perfectly readable off my MBP (Early 2009 17" ub). I use an Apple mini-disp > DVI to DVI > HDMI cable + TOSLINK for audio.

I seem to remember seeing an adapter which would combine the DVI and optical audio to HDMI, but don't know any thing about it.

As a developer myself, I'm not sure I'd like to use a big-screen TV as a display. I suppose I could get used to it, but the couple of times I've hooked up the MBP to the 50", it just seemed "odd" reading and typing on it. I wanted to use it as an option for surfing, too (using BT keyboard and mouse). But, like I said, there's no problem with resolution.

 

[tbayrgs]

I have a 50" plasma at about 8-10' viewing distance. Text is perfectly readable off my MBP (Early 2009 17" ub). I use an Apple mini-disp > DVI to DVI > HDMI cable + TOSLINK for audio.

I seem to remember seeing an adapter which would combine the DVI and optical audio to HDMI, but don't know any thing about it.

As a developer myself, I'm not sure I'd like to use a big-screen TV as a display. I suppose I could get used to it, but the couple of times I've hooked up the MBP to the 50", it just seemed "odd" reading and typing on it. I wanted to use it as an option for surfing, too (using BT keyboard and mouse). But, like I said, there's no problem with resolution.

Exact same setup for me as well and while setting mini to 1080p is certainly readable, I actually find it a bit too small to look at for prolonged periods of time so I usually have it set to 720p. I use it most often as HTPC, using Plex to watch video and as all of my library is encoded at standard DVD resolution or 720p for my other TV, this resolution seems to work out best but as always, YMMV.