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Mini with Samsung HDTV woes
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<blockquote data-quote="subgenious" data-source="post: 816764" data-attributes="member: 91026"><p>Thanks for the very detailed responses, I had suspected this involved the two devices not properly communicating with each other but it's good to get some confirmation. Previously I have connected my wife's MacBook Pro to the same television using a VGA cable (our short-term HTPC hack setup) and everything worked very well with nice image quality, so as long as I'm not loosing much by avoiding the HDMI input in favor of VGA I can stomach it. Besides, now I can return the overpriced DVI-HDMI cable I had to buy...</p><p></p><p>I'd have to agree though that this weakness in the Mac OS is very surprising to me given how everything else seems to work almost magically. I'm used to strong arming my PC's into submission in order to get them configured just how I like them, but other than this video gripe the Mini has required almost no attention. Wireless inputs just worked, optical output to the receiver just worked, it was so easy I knew something would have to go wrong <img src="/mac_images/images/smilies/Smirk.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":Smirk:" title="Smirk :Smirk:" data-shortname=":Smirk:" /> </p><p></p><p>Ah well, at least I don't have Windows on my TV!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="subgenious, post: 816764, member: 91026"] Thanks for the very detailed responses, I had suspected this involved the two devices not properly communicating with each other but it's good to get some confirmation. Previously I have connected my wife's MacBook Pro to the same television using a VGA cable (our short-term HTPC hack setup) and everything worked very well with nice image quality, so as long as I'm not loosing much by avoiding the HDMI input in favor of VGA I can stomach it. Besides, now I can return the overpriced DVI-HDMI cable I had to buy... I'd have to agree though that this weakness in the Mac OS is very surprising to me given how everything else seems to work almost magically. I'm used to strong arming my PC's into submission in order to get them configured just how I like them, but other than this video gripe the Mini has required almost no attention. Wireless inputs just worked, optical output to the receiver just worked, it was so easy I knew something would have to go wrong :Smirk: Ah well, at least I don't have Windows on my TV! [/QUOTE]
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