Mini display port to HDMI problem

Entelligence

you problem is very similar to the problem me an vic had. And i am pretty sure it will be solved by getting a direct mdp to tv hdmi cable. Not a combination, you combinations did not work cos the problem is not with the cables, it is with the adaptor.

if i understand correctly you use

an adaptor (mdp male to HDMI female) plus a HDMI cable ( hdmi male to hdmi male)

what we suggest is a single cable (mdp male to hdmi male) and we have posted links to lot of cheap and costly cables. try a cheap cable, i am almost sure that it will work

I dont think you can get your money back but its worth a go, what happened with me is that they said they can only replace it with another one. Forget about the stupid adapters and forget about apple helping you. Get the hdmi mdp cable. You might as well order the cable from the link i posted earlier, it has high ratings. Let us know how you get on with it, im confident it will work for you. good luck.

adapters, any make, are prone to burn out. so its likely that you wont get a a replacemnt or money back. No harm in trying though.

ideally u should go to the store with your macbook and the adaptor and tell them your problem and ask for replacemnt and get the replcement checked with your macbook then and there.

what if after I buy the cable you suggest I still have the problem? Now I've wasted money on something that does not work. Maybe I should take it to the apple store but going to Apple store is such a negative experience for me. I brought my iphone to them because the battary did not work. After running their tests they gave me a new iphone. couple months later same problem occured. I took it to the apple store again and I was questioned as if I was a murder suspect by an arrogant techno sales clerk. I was given a run down by their greeterst at the store. They said we are bussy today come back in two days. I said no, my phone is dead and I want you to fix it NOW! so they moved their behind scheduled me themselves right there on the spot and what do you know, they were able to help me because there had no more customers. If I had listened to them I would be without any way to communicate with the ouside world for two days. I bet they do that to a lot of OLD customers.

And their best store in the world on university avenue in palo alto california smells really bad. Like sweat and dirt. Most people that work there will ignore you unless you confront them. It is crowded, they treat you like garbage. Why would I want to go to a place like that?!!!

I would rather buy a PC next time because I am dead sure that PCs will be better because Steve Jobs is dead and he was the reason why Apple was a great company. Steve is dead so is the innovation.

And to APPLE, APPLE PAY ATTENTION. If your C level executive can tell the entire world during your last mac world detail oriented sales demo, "Can't invent new stuff my ***" if he can use the word *** in front of the entire world? Why cant I use the same word here to describe your services and your product without you deleting it or hiding that three letter world? Isnt that an oximoron an example of magnificent hypocracy? plain BS?

If after you buy the mdp hdmi cable you have the same problem, you could explore the air display option, or maybe even ask apple to refund you for your mac. I know its really frustrating but this problem existed when steve jobs was alive - and they never fixed it. Let us hope that the mavericks os will fix it, although i doubt that. Ive seen posts from snow leopard about this problem.

okay but this adapter that I have works sometimes and sometimes does not work. So what if it works at their store and then stopps working at my place? I mean it does it here. It works for me then I turn my laptop off power it back on the next day or so and it does not work again. How can a burned out adapter do that? If something is burned out, it does not work. How can it be burned out if it works when it wants to? And why would it burn in the first place? I did not plug it into the PC or radio or a toster? it has been sitting by my TV plugged in to the hdmi cable and I would rarely plug it into my laptop. How did it burn? Did someone go inside and set the fire on? Was that a mini me from the gold finger? Why did he choose my adapter? What about thousands of other people who have the same problem? What do I do with this peace of (*&^(*&^(*&^ adapter if they do not refund me (most likely) because I have had it for over 2 years? Does that mean I've wastet my money on peace of junk that does not work? If this (*)(*&)(*& does not work how can I trust that something else isnt going to "burn down" on its own? Now if I listen to some folks here I have to buy a new adapter or cable I would have invested more money and what if after all that this laptop stops working? I would need to get a new one right? Well if that happens I will definitely not buy APPLE, YOU CAN PUT MY WORDS IN THE BANK!

air dysplay option? what is that? BTW I have an apple TV and I dont understand why I can mirror my iPhone but can not mirror my LapTop? ISnt that crazy? I really doubt Steve Would have tolerated this )(*&)(*&)(*& if he had been around. It may have started when he was around but he has been gone for quite some time but this problem still exists. Why do they slash adapter as broken if it works sometimes? Why not fix this )(*&)(*&)(*& adapter? Has anyone actually tried fixing this? Can it be repaired? Repair the ADAPTER APPLE!!!

ok

1) The solution may or may not work

2) yes if they dont give you replcement (which i am pretty sure cos its been two years), you are left with a piece of junk

3) if the new adaptor does not work, you will be left with another piece junk but atleast this junk would cost only a fraction of teh money you paid for the macbook or the moshi adaptor.

4) The low cost cable makes it worthwhile to try than having to watch movies on the samll screen of the laptop

5) cables do burn out, it does not literally burn out but stuff are not designed to last for life

6) in your case it works sometimes means its not a software issue for sure, and probably a loose contact in your adaptor cable.

7) we cant gaurentee you anything. it is finally your decision to to try or not to. You may even sue apple 🙂 good luck with that

eNtelligence101 wrote:

thats not very democratic. free speech and all is out in the grave along with poor steve jobs, they bareed both **** it

You signed the terms of use when you joined, you don't have free speech here.

If you don't like the terms you agreed to, why did you agree to them?

ok lets see here:

1) The solution may or may not work (really?) phhhfffff :/

2) yes if they dont give you replcement (which i am pretty sure cos its been two years), you are left with a piece of junk (I know this is peace of junk)

3) if the new adaptor does not work, you will be left with another piece junk but atleast this junk would cost only a fraction of teh money you paid for the macbook or the moshi adaptor. (no way I am spending a penny on anything new.)

4) The low cost cable makes it worthwhile to try than having to watch movies on the samll screen of the laptop (I disagree) I can watch movies from my iphone via apple TV its the apps that I sometimes want to project on TV from laptop that wount work and that *****! But I know the fix when I have the money I will buy NON APPLE computer unless Steve Jobs come back from the dead and takes over apple again (good luck with that).

5) cables do burn out, it does not literally burn out but stuff are not designed to last for life (LIFE?!?!? How about 2 years buddy or 1,5 in my case)? I think they should last at least that if I am using and not abusing the stuff no?

6) in your case it works sometimes means its not a software issue for sure, and probably a loose contact in your adaptor cable. Nothing is loose, everything is connected exactly the same way and if I reset their laptop and then jirk with the tv on and off button 50 times it does come back sometimes without me actually touching the laptop.

7) we cant gaurentee you anything. it is finally your decision to to try or not to. You may even sue apple 🙂 good luck with that

Sue Apple? Yeah like I have no better things to do. I'm just posting here hoping a someone with a common sense at Apple the so called A PLAYER yeah right (oximoron) will read this and will try to resolve this issue without us the apple owners buying stuff that in most cases does not work!

In case anyone is using 10.8:

How to detect displays in OS X 10.8

While the Detect Displays feature in OS X may appear to be gone, it is merely hidden.

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57601545-263/how-to-detect-displays-in-os-x -10.8/

Background:

*2010 Macbook Pro 13" (purchased at Apple store)

OS 10.6.8

*Moshi MiniDdisplayPort (purchased at Apple store)

*Amazon HDMI cable (basic)

*Panasonic LCD TV model TC-L42U25

This set up worked well for months. Then it worked intermittently with rebooting/replugging. Eventually resulting in a ridiculous number of rebooting/replugging to "work."

Current status:

The Genius at the Apple store tried my computer and Moshi MDP with his TV and it worked beautifully (imagine my consternation). He advised me to try a new cable, but didn't specify which one.

After reading through 55 pages of comments on this page, I saw recommendations for several high speed HDMI male to male cables but it appears some have worked for some users but not for others.

Someone posted a link about HDMI cables that might have been helpful, but unfortunately the link is now broken.

Are there any general guidelines for the high speed HDMI male to male cables that worked for this problem? I saw a couple of posts mentioned categories 1.3 or 1.4a. What about recommended gbps?

I didn't see anything on Apple's site, other than the MDP recommendation. A search for CNET ratings was really vague, and basically recommending getting cheap HDMI cables (dt;dw).

I am not IT savvy, and was not aware of the differences among HDMI cables until now. Here's hoping that some cable specs may help those of us who can solve this problem with a new HMDI cable.

Wouldn't it be nice if a long thread like this one had a search feature? 🙂

Thanks for schooling me!

Does anyone know if reinstalling the operating system and only updating it to a specific version or not updating it at all will solve this problem? If so, what version? I know that this would delete my entire harddrive.😟

Thanks apple reps for all your help !!!(sarcism) in case you guys can't tell... Why cant apple solve this problem or even explain to us what is going on.😠

Don't erase anything! It's not a problem with your operating system, nor your thunderbold output. I too went through the 1000 comments here on this particular topic, and in the end, it came down to the fact that the product (the actual HDMI converter) that Apple has released is terrible. It's a cheap (quality) product.

I bought another cable (another make too - NOT Apple). It's been 2 months: so far, so good. Even if it does konk out in the next couple of months, it was still 1/3rd the price, and the quality is probably better than the "official Apple" HDMI converter.

I have a MacBook Pro 13" Mid 2012. I bought an inexpensive mini DisplayPort to HDMI cable and it worked great for a month or two. I lent it to someone for them to try and he said it didn't work. We tried different combinations of connecting, turning one off or both off and restarting, etc. We gave up. I took the cable back to my MBP and it worked. I can't remember if I restarted or disconnected the cable again, but it just stopped working.

I was connecting to a BenQ monitor that supports audio. I had used the audio as well before.

I tried connecting to several other TVs and none of them work, even though some of them had worked in the past. I just get the flash where the MacBook Pro goes blue, but returns without having "detected" the TV or monitor.

I haven't abused the cable and I'm pretty sure that the specifications of the cable and my TVs and MacBook Pro haven't changed. It's very mysterious why it suddenly stops working. I might install Windows to see how it works with that OS on the same hardware.

I had OS X repair permissions, I reset PRAM. I too wonder if Apple blacklists cables and somehow sneaks something into the OS to prevent it from working so that you're forced to buy the expensive adapters they sell. That's rather nefarious and I'd hate for it to be true, but I just don't think that the hardware would stop working the way it did.

Also, the MacBook Pro is only a few months old and so is the cable. I've ordered a different mini DisplayPort (also an inexpensive one) to see what the result will be with that. I'll maybe call Apple, too.