Comments on: Your Mac Loves Your New TV

By: Karl

Karl — Tue, 04 May 2010 19:41:29 +0000

The trouble with the Mini DisplayPort to HDMI adaptor is the HDMI end is female and the TV HDMI ports are also female,so you will also need an other adaptor that's male at both ends to make it work.

By: Noel

Noel — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:44:37 +0000

Thanks for all the great info. I’ve set-up just like you said but am now curious if there is a way to connect the telly and the macbook pro wifi?

By: Kikopharoah

Kikopharoah — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 01:49:17 +0000

Thats not true. HDMI is a video & audio signal.
DVI is a video signal only.

By: Tristan

Tristan — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 03:49:02 +0000

Hey ewanyork… What system are you running on your MBP?

By: Nutnode

Nutnode — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 03:20:42 +0000

From what you’ve described, it’s possible that the issue is being caused by a conflict in the EDID system, used by displays/projectors etc to describe to a graphics output device it’s display capabilities, (i.e. supported resolutions & scan rates).
You can read up more about EDID at wikipedia http://tinyurl.com/2bql3t or VESA http://www.vesa.org (registration &/or payment required to view some content, & often very geeky!).

If you can happily drive the display when connected directly, bypassing the AV receiver, you may want to consider a box like this one: http://tinyurl.com/yaunxrn

They rely on interrupting the contentious EDID info & substituting it with info that you either manually set, or capture from your actual display device. Once configured, install this close in the signal path to the video source & the MBP will always ‘see’ the correct EDID info & consequently send the correctly formatted video signal, the display will be happy with the signal that arrives, & the MBP is none the wiser.
This should eliminate the constant ‘hunting’ loop.

EDID *can* be a bit of a black art sometimes, when trying to pass it through several components in a large AV setup. Sometimes caused by latency, or power-up sequences or even older devices not handling more recent versions of the protocol very well, even though it is built to be backwards compatible.

Good luck. Hope this solves it, or puts you in the right direction.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:50:48 +0000

Are you serious? Yes, there were aluminum MacBooks before unibody existed. As it is now, all MacBook Pros are aluminum ubibody, and the MacBook I’d polycarbonate. But there definitely was aluminum MacBook Pros before the unibody was made. Get your facts straight.

By: JJ

JJ — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:35:24 +0000

That sentence doesn’t make much sense. There are no MacBooks that are made of aluminum but are not unibody. Only plastic MacBooks (and from what I know, even they are unibody now, but nobody calls them that).

By: alcibiades

alcibiades — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 01:10:31 +0000

Yeah - me, too. The first version - late 2008 - of the aluminum macbook has a mini display port.

By: David Klein

David Klein — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 20:50:03 +0000

Darnit I knew I’d miss something. Aluminum Macbook has Mini DVI and aluminum Macbook Pro has DVI.

By: Jono

Jono — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 20:39:57 +0000

Great post! Have you found a Mini DVI Male and USB Male Audio to HDMI Female Converting Adapter?