Problem connecting Mac to TV (Video)

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Bought all the cables I thought were needed and it did not work.

Watch the video to have a look:


YouTube - Connecting Mac to TV Problem


The channel I had it on was the channel the PS2 runs off from the front of the telly and no other channels had the screen up. I also tried plugging it through the Video/DVD which just came up no Live Video avaliable no sound either.

Please help, Is the laptop too old or is there something ive done wrong?.. :(

Otherwise ive wasted over £20 on cables.
 
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Do you have display mirroring turned on?
 
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It dosent have that option?

Is that on the Display Pref,

Btw is an ibook G3, I couldnt find that section on this forum.
 
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Anyone?..
 
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Unfortunately I can't see youtube videos at work so not sure what does or does not happen..

The first time I hooked up my MacBook to a big TV I had no output at all and had to make a few changes - a few days later I saw someone asking how to resolve the same problem - my answer:

I hooked my MacBook up to a TV for the first time in the last 2 weeks. I went from mini div to vga.

I connected up, turned on TV and switched input to the VGA - nothing.

Checked the cables - they seemed fine - still nothing.

Went to system preferences and I think (on a PC at minute) the option is called screen savers & displays. OS X seemed to know there were 2 monitors attached but still nothing out to TV. I changed the display prefs for second monitor from mirror to extended (sorry can't remember exact terms used). My TV flicked into life and I had an extended desktop. I changed the option back to mirror which was now also working fine and then back to extended as it was better for me to be able to use the MacBook display for one thing and output a Quicktime movie using the TV.

So to recap:

go to system prefs.
go to displays
toggle the options relating to mirrowed desktop
choose whats best for you (assuming it works).
Click to expand...

Try that.
 
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That option isnt on there, Umm.
Thanks anyway :(
 

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