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Hondo
I wanan know what I need for duel screen or if its even possible. I have a little HDTV plasma laying around that no one uses So I was wondering if its possible to duel screen it since I see a plug in the back that seems formiler. I just need to know what part I need to get my mac to the tv. Because I have hearing that apple makes ones just for imacs so I cant just go down to radio shack and pick up the cord. So with this being said. Heres what the back looks like.
Connection says VGA.

My Mac
Specifications
  • 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
  • 1GB 667 DDR2 SDRAM - 2x512
  • 160GB Serial ATA drive
  • SuperDrive 8X (DVD+R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
  • Keyboard & Mighty Mouse + Mac OS X - U.S. English
  • ATI Radeon X1600 128MB SDRAM
  • 17-inch widescreen LCD
  • AirPort Extreme
  • Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR
Suzuka
I suggest connecting it through S-Video (I think thats an S video port in the pic)
first you need the miniDVI to s-video cable from the Apple store for $19.99
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebO...p;nplm=M9319G/A
Then you need an S-Video cable you can find at any store, even a Wal-Mart, it looks something like this
http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.js...rentPage=search
Hondo
QUOTE(Suzuka @ May 3 2007, 06:22 PM) *
I suggest connecting it through S-Video (I think thats an S video port in the pic)
first you need the miniDVI to s-video cable from the Apple store for $19.99
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebO...p;nplm=M9319G/A
Then you need an S-Video cable you can find at any store, even a Wal-Mart, it looks something like this
http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.js...rentPage=search


Thanks =). Going to order now =).
GBK.Xscape
man....i wish i had a spare Plasma HDTV lying around the house.......
Fossie
This is old, but why would you suggest s-video? s-video is rubbish compared to vga...
dj_stick
QUOTE(Fossie @ Jun 1 2007, 11:27 PM) *
This is old, but why would you suggest s-video? s-video is rubbish compared to vga...
exactly...

s-vhs: you've got 4 pins; chroma, luminence and their respective grounds
vga: there's 9pins; red, green, blue, sync-red, sync-green, sync-blue, indivudual grounds

much higher signal quality with VGA, better than composite, comparable/identical to SCART (with good cabling)
plugwash
Whatever you do you will need an apple supplied adaptor to go into the apple mini-dvi port and adapt it to what you want.

If your TV has a HDMI input I would use an apple mini DVI to DVI adaptor and a DVI to HDMI cable. If it doesn't have HDMI but does have VGA use a apple mini DVI to VGA adaptor and a VGA cable.

If you are really desparate apple also do mini DVI to s-video or composite adaptors but you won't get HD with those.
nate256
other companies make DVI to VGA. just pick on of those up some place!
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