my mini dvi adapter for my iMac turned up today. A better picture when using my hdmi cable with the iMac than my mbp but still now where as clear as with vga. I do have a couple of questions tho:
1. when the mini dvi is plugged in to the back of my iMac is there any way to stop my imac display from changing. I was planning to leave it plugged in all the time and just switching to the source on my tv but i have not yet worked out how to do this.
2. I normally watch all my vids etc.. thru frontrow. Is there any way to get front row to appear on my tv and my iMac display stays on what ever I was doing? I have to use mirror image as the option as I cant work out how to do it.
3. I do have a small dvi to vga cable but the dvi end doesnt fit into the mini dvi adapter it seems to have some pins in different locations. How come?
cheers
Not sure how a VGA connection would be clearer than HDMI. Did you go System Preferences > Displays. Did you go to the display tab and configure the resolution to your TV properly? btw, don't use the highest setting either. Under the display tab it says I can change it to 1920x1080 but my TV only supports up to 720p. Make sure the resolution is set to your TV.
1. Define changing... If the TV is connected and turned off or the TV is not set to the source you have it connected to (HDMI 1,2,3), it should not matter. My TV is constantly connected. It's currently off so my computer does not recognize it. I can flip it to play some TV or a movie and my computer will stop recognizing it and switch back to the single screen mode.
2. Not that I know of. Front Row is cool visually but it's not an app I am familiar with. It didn't become a usable part of OS X on the Mac Pro till 10.5 and after a few tries to get front row to only show up on the TV while being able to use my monitor for web surfing or something else, I gave up using it. Extended desktop still makes it show up on both screens.
3. There are a million types of DVI connections. Ok, there are only a few. Because it has to be both a digital and analog cable (DVI to VGA), it has different pin settings. The DVI Macs use are digital specific so they display a higher quality picture.
All About DVI Maybe the link will help you out...