Sorry if this was covered in the previous 44 pages, but here's what I've come across:
We bought a JVC EM32T tv from Costco. We're using my wife's Macbook, the very first one with the Mini DVI port that will not carry audio.
So you'd think you'd get a Mini DVI to HDMI adapter for the video and use the Macbook's headphone output into the tv's RCA audio input via a simple adapter. From what I've read, that's the normal fix.
The trouble is when you select the HDMI input on the tv none of the RCA audio inputs work. The guy at the Apple store said that on all the tv's he'd seen you could use the HDMI for video along with using RCA inputs for audio, and that the RCA audio inputs would sum in with the HDMI video.
But on this tv, that doesn't seem to work. When you select HDMI input on the tv, it expects the audio to be with the video on the HDMI cable. There is no way to have the video from the HDMI and the audio from, for instance, the aux or camcorder RCA audio inputs.
Many of the other tv's I've seen have RCA audio inputs not only for the camcorder and aux inputs, but also for the HDMI inputs, but this one doesn't. The tv's input select chooses video and audio as pairs, you can't select video from one source and audio from another source.
So it seems like either get a more recent Mac, get a $100 box that will sum audio in with HDMI I found on eBay, use a separate sound system or (yuck) use a mini DVI to composite adapter and use the tv's composite audio and video inputs.
We bought a JVC EM32T tv from Costco. We're using my wife's Macbook, the very first one with the Mini DVI port that will not carry audio.
So you'd think you'd get a Mini DVI to HDMI adapter for the video and use the Macbook's headphone output into the tv's RCA audio input via a simple adapter. From what I've read, that's the normal fix.
The trouble is when you select the HDMI input on the tv none of the RCA audio inputs work. The guy at the Apple store said that on all the tv's he'd seen you could use the HDMI for video along with using RCA inputs for audio, and that the RCA audio inputs would sum in with the HDMI video.
But on this tv, that doesn't seem to work. When you select HDMI input on the tv, it expects the audio to be with the video on the HDMI cable. There is no way to have the video from the HDMI and the audio from, for instance, the aux or camcorder RCA audio inputs.
Many of the other tv's I've seen have RCA audio inputs not only for the camcorder and aux inputs, but also for the HDMI inputs, but this one doesn't. The tv's input select chooses video and audio as pairs, you can't select video from one source and audio from another source.
So it seems like either get a more recent Mac, get a $100 box that will sum audio in with HDMI I found on eBay, use a separate sound system or (yuck) use a mini DVI to composite adapter and use the tv's composite audio and video inputs.