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Mini DisplayPort to Composite/ S-Video??

Will there be an adapter to have this option? I think this is a vital option for both late 2008 Macbook and Macbook Pro!

Mac OS X (10.5.3)

Posted on Oct 15, 2008 1:41 AM

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Oct 15, 2008 8:10 AM in response to niemandmail

Ditto,

A composite/S-Video output option is still essential, there are still a lot of sd tv sets out there, as well as projectors with only composite/s-video inputs. I must be able to connect to these.

Is is possible to attach two adapters in line?, if so, why not have a single adapter do it in one? I'm thinking Mini DisplayPort -> DVI, and then DVI -> S-video? What type of DVI does the new macbook/MBP output, is it DVI-A, DVI-D or DVI-I?

XW

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Oct 16, 2008 5:16 AM in response to CaptainMorales

It's not just photographers and graphic artists who find a glossy screen intolerable. Macbook Pros and Cinema Displays are currently used heavily in medicine, where precision, color, and accuracy can sometimes mean the difference between life and death. These machines are used in brightly lit laps, where glare and especially reflection can obscure image detail. Now that Apple is moving to glassy screens across its entire "pro" (and I use that term loosely) line, Apple has just written off medical imaging applications for its machines.

Oct 18, 2008 7:13 AM in response to lakeshore

The reason Apple has abandon the non glossy display is because the coating used to make the screen non glossy distorts the image from the display itself.

After a display is manufactured it is glossy per default. To make it non glossy a coating is applied that distort the light in a way that makes the screen appear non glossy. The problem with this it that the coating not only distort the reflections coming from outside but also the light coming from the screen itself making the image and the colors less accurate. This is absolute fact and people working with digital pictures will get a more accurate result because of this but will need a dark room or remove unnecessary light sources in you work place. If the distortion or slight blurriness the coating produces that reduce reflection is worth removing the annoyance of a higher degree of reflection is a question you have to decide for yourself.

I myself prefer the glossy non coated screen that produces sharper images and think that it´s worth the hassle of positioning my macbook and myself in a way that reduces reflective light sources, after all it is a portable computer and it is easy to move it to a place and position that is ideal. But everyone has right to their own opinion if apple did the right decision but if you didn´t know before why they abandoned the coated screens, now you know.

I do agree that the the extra glass they have put in front of the display in the new macbooks/pros leeds to unnecessary reflections and is only an unnecessary esthetic choice. This aside the underlaying glossy screen is simply a screen without an applied light distorting coating.

mvh FractalFreddie

ps. It should theoretical be possible to keep the anti reflection coating and still get the same sharpness as non coated screens by compensating for the light distortion produced. This could be done by destructive interference calculated either by the CPU, GPU or ideally by a separate circuit in order to reduce the system load of such advanced calculations.

Oct 20, 2008 1:19 PM in response to niemandmail

have you (read: has anyone) tried a VGA-Composite/RCA/S-Video adapter in conjunction with the mini-DisplayPort-VGA adapter? I'm considering trying this, but I haven't bought the laptop yet, and I don't have the converter anyway. My current laptop (an old Toshiba) has an RCA out, which was really convenient. I'm hoping to hold off on actually buying any adapters until I've heard if anyone else has succesfully tried it. Hopefully everyone else isn't doing the same thing. Report back if you try it and it works.

Oct 21, 2008 1:40 AM in response to elfprince13

As it seems:
In the new MBP Apple appearantly uses DisplayPort : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Displayport . Display Port is all Digital. That in my view eliminates the possibility of a cheap passive composite/s-video connector from Apple or third party anytime soon.

Don't expect this adaptor - in my view it seems technically not possible.

Any comments?

Oct 22, 2008 11:47 AM in response to niemandmail

Hello everyone, I've been a loyal user since the SE days, I just got the new MBP and realized that apple has forgot about us, professionals working on macs.

I was sad when they decided to remove the s-video outputs on the MBP, and because is still essential when working with video, I had to buy the adaptor in order to keep working with it.

Now, that adaptor not only does not work with the new MBP, but it looks like Apple does not even offer a Mini DisplayPort to S-Video solution for us.

We need this apple, please release some sort of adaptor ASP!!!

To everyone else:
Does anyone know how to go to S-Video from the MBP?

Mini DisplayPort to Composite/ S-Video??

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