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<blockquote data-quote="Jon45189" data-source="post: 1317406" data-attributes="member: 91063">Connecting late 2008 MBP to Vizio HDTVI've recently bought a brand new Vizio HDTV that I am trying to watch videos/movies on from my 2008 (Unibody) Macbook Pro. I am a hockey goalie coach, so when I do teaching sessions, I like to have video set up for the kids to watch on the TV.Anyway, I went to the Apple store to get the appropriate cables and I bought the mini display port to HDMI cable. The Apple guy told me that it would work for both video and audio. However, when I used it, only the video worked. Then, I went and bought the 3.5mm headphone jack to RCA to get sound, but that didn't work. After that, I went and got an auxiliary cable, but that also does not work. Is there anything else I need to buy or set up differently to get sound to come out of the TV?The past two days, I've searched all over different forums and Google but everything is saying I have the appropriate cables. So, just to reiterate, I am getting video but no audio.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jon45189, post: 1317406, member: 91063"] [b]Connecting late 2008 MBP to Vizio HDTV[/b] I've recently bought a brand new Vizio HDTV that I am trying to watch videos/movies on from my 2008 (Unibody) Macbook Pro. I am a hockey goalie coach, so when I do teaching sessions, I like to have video set up for the kids to watch on the TV. Anyway, I went to the Apple store to get the appropriate cables and I bought the mini display port to HDMI cable. The Apple guy told me that it would work for both video and audio. However, when I used it, only the video worked. Then, I went and bought the 3.5mm headphone jack to RCA to get sound, but that didn't work. After that, I went and got an auxiliary cable, but that also does not work. Is there anything else I need to buy or set up differently to get sound to come out of the TV? The past two days, I've searched all over different forums and Google but everything is saying I have the appropriate cables. So, just to reiterate, I am getting video but no audio. [/QUOTE]

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