hi all, i have had a look through the cables available in the Apple Store, but i dont seem to easily find one that will plug into my MacBookPro's Firewire Socket and a HDMI socket on a Sony HD TV ?. Any suggestions please what i should use and where would i get it from please ?.
All i want to is to display the photos that are on my MBP'S hard drive.
tim
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2), iPad 2, iPhone 4S
I have since discovered/remebered that i asked this same question about 6 months ago, the "correct answer" was inconclusive.
Apparently the Apple cable for this purpose doesnt do Sound, which would be very usefull for me in the future. So i am now even more confused than i was before.
It would be much better if i could use the same cable/adapter on my iPad and/or iPhone ????
tim
You need a Mini DisplayPort to HDMI cable. The Apple store sells them - and yes, they do carry audio too.
The inconclusiveness might have come from the fact that older MacBook Pros do not supply audio through the HDMI port, but newer ones do. I forget where the dividing line is, but I'm sure it can be looked up. The current Apple cable does carry sound over HDMI, it's only a question of whether your model of MacBook Pro does.
timmy toad wrote:
I have since discovered/remebered that i asked this same question about 6 months ago, the "correct answer" was inconclusive.
Apparently the Apple cable for this purpose doesnt do Sound, which would be very usefull for me in the future. So i am now even more confused than i was before.
The FireWire port on your MBP doesn't output a video signal, so you can't connect it to a TV set. That's what your mini-Displayport is for.
If your MBP was made before April 2010, its mini-Displayport doesn't output audio. You can still use an audio-capable HDMI adapter with it, but there won't be any audio signal to carry until you get a newer MBP. This adapter is available at the Apple Store:
http://store.apple.com/us/product/H1824ZM/A/Moshi_Mini_DisplayPort_to_HDMI_Adapt er
You can't use the same adapter with an iPad or iPhone. For that you'll need this adapter:
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC953ZM/A?fnode=MTc0MjU4NjE
Besides the two adapters, you'll need a standard HDMI cable of the appropriate length, which you can use with either adapter.
Thanks for that buddy, i have an early 2011 Mac Book Pro
So which socket, will the cable mentioned above plug into ? Thunderbolt or Firewire ?
tim
Your 2011 MBP does deliver audio thru the Mini-Displayport, yay! 🙂 Plug the cable into the Thunderbolt socket - it doubles as the Mini-Displayport.
connect MacBookPro to a hdmi socket ?
