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Hooking My Macbook Up To My TV, A Horror Story
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<blockquote data-quote="RNDdave" data-source="post: 684654" data-attributes="member: 20405"><p>I hooked my MacBook up to a TV for the first time in the last 2 weeks. I went from mini div to vga. </p><p></p><p>I connected up, turned on TV and switched input to the VGA - nothing.</p><p></p><p>Checked the cables - they seemed fine - still nothing.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>So to recap:</p><p></p><p>go to system prefs.</p><p>go to displays</p><p>toggle the options relating to mirrowed desktop</p><p>choose whats best for you (assuming it works).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RNDdave, post: 684654, member: 20405"] 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). [/QUOTE]
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