Rotate TV 90 degrees and display images properly?

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Rotate TV 90 degrees and display images properly?

I would like to rotate our LG HDTV to Vertical orientation (not the traditional horizontal orientation), and display the images from an Apple TV in the vertical orientation. Is this possible? I know that I can rotate images on my MacPro monitor (Cinema display) by 90, 180, or 270 degrees. This is the sort of control I would like from an Apple TV when output to the Vertical standing HDTV.

MacPro 2.66 4 GB, Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Mar 25, 2009 3:47 PM

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Alley_Cat

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Mar 27, 2009 10:39 AM in response to Rich Hayhurst

While you could easily turn the Tv and have any Portrait photos rotated landscape to view on a tv in portrait mode, AppleTV itself will not natively support display rotation - the photos properly tagged would show ok but menu would be all wrong and not rotated. You'd be better using a Mac Mini or other computer that allowed display rotation - use a DVI to HDMI adapter.

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DaVBMan

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Mar 26, 2009 4:17 PM in response to Rich Hayhurst

The TV would handle this if allowed, not the ATV.

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Rich Hayhurst Author

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Mar 26, 2009 6:47 PM in response to DaVBMan

Hmmm cool idea, I'll check out the TV Manual. I did not know that any TV's allowed the images to be rotated.

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Rich Hayhurst Author

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Mar 27, 2009 10:53 AM in response to Alley_Cat

Got it. A Mac Mini will replicate the rotate function that I have on my more expensive machine (which I don't want to dedicate to this purpose). Thanks alot for answering my question.

Rich

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