How Do You Hook Up Your Mini To A TV? I Have Seen PPl Do It.

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How Do You Hook Up Your Mini To A TV? I Have Seen PPl Do It.

To the ppl of the world,

I am getting a mini sometime this week or next, and i was wondering how do i hook it up to a tv so i can use the tv as a monitor... do i need a special cord, or something else, because i am sick of small monitors, by small i mean 17" and smaller, and if i do need a special cord where can i get one?

Drew H.

Posted on Oct 31, 2005 5:40 PM

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Answer 1

Tom Fussy

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Nov 2, 2005 2:02 AM in response to Drew H.

TVs can make pretty crappy monitors unless they are LCD TVs or some other advanced digital TV.

You can get a special cord from the Apple Store called a "Apple Mini-DVI to Video Adapter" if you really want to try this.

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Answer 2

Nov 6, 2005 10:49 PM in response to Drew H.

he thing that you must remember is that a video signal is very low resolution. NTSC is 720x486 and DV is 720x480. A computer signal is never going to look very good on a television unless your tv can accept vga or dvi inputs. Likewise a video signal on a computer display will look stretched and pixelated because the image is being stretched to fit over more pixels that it has. Now if we are talking about HD that is a whole different animal. HD is of course high definition, meaning it has more pixels, therefore it has a cleaner more detailed image. The adapter does what it is supposed to do.

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