How to Set Up Panasonic Viera Plasma TV as Monitor for G4 leopard 10.5.8

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How to Set Up Panasonic Viera Plasma TV as Monitor for G4 leopard 10.5.8

I have a G4 and need a huge monitor for work and was using my Panasonic Vera flat screen TV with my old PC and got great resolution etc.

Now with my G4 I hooked it up and the res was not so good. Installed a s-video adapter and same blurry text etc. Attempted to dial in the resolution using "settings" on the monitor screens and everything went to a rolling screen like TVs on the 1960's.... you had to adjust the horizontal hold back then.

Bottom line is the only resolution setting that holds the horizontal now is 720 x 480 (interlaced) with the 60 Hertz (NTSC).

I have tried all sorts of combos and they all cause the horizontal rolling issue.

How can I get the best resolution setting without buying a new TV? If I do buy a new TV for a monitor, I've heard Samsung is the inner guts of Apple monitors for the Power Mac G4...True?

thanks all,

bobby

G4, Mac OS X (10.5.8), Monitor is Panasonic flat Plasma

Posted on Dec 23, 2009 3:22 PM

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Camelot

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Dec 23, 2009 8:38 PM in response to B Green

The best answer to this question requires a little more digging.

More specifically, what spare inputs do you have on the TV, and what video card are you currently driving.

IMHO S-Video is going to give you about a poor a picture as you can get, mostly because of the limited bandwidth and the fact it's based around standard resolution TV (e.g. NTSC signaling).

The best experience would be via HDMI, but for that you'd need a video card with a DVI interface, plus a DVI -> HDMI cable. If you don't have a DVI-based video card and you're OK spending a few dollars that would be your best bet, although off hand I don't know specifically which card you'd need - most of the modern cards are PCI-X or PCIe and won't work in the G4.

If you don't want to replace the card then you'll need to let us know what kind of video card you have in it so that we can find the best match.

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