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Connect a mini to an older RGB-only HDTV
Authored by: robg on Mar 20, '06 08:05:20PM

On the back of my television, it's labeled "RGB input." That's all I know....

-rob.



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Connect a mini to an older RGB-only HDTV
Authored by: lonewolf2222 on Mar 21, '06 12:02:06AM

So that means it's a VGA not component video. Which means that you are
not getting true HD resolution. Don't your TV have component inputs
besides VGA? I'm interested to know how one would connect the Mac
mini DVI port to component video input of an HDTV. I browsed around and
it seems like you need some expensive conversion hardware to do this.
I was wondering if anyone knows of a good and cheap DVI-to-component
cable which will do the job. Or there is no such thing?



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Connect a mini to an older RGB-only HDTV
Authored by: daran on Mar 21, '06 03:08:59AM

> So that means it's a VGA not component video
Nah. It means it is analog input with RGB+sync signals used. It's called VGA due to using the same pinning, not refering for a particular resolution as there is no hard resolution limitation on these. 1080i is well within reach, as would be 1080p which no HDTV set I'm aware of supports. So you'd need a DVI-to-RGB adapter (passive, inexpensive, sometimes called DVI-to-VGA adpater) or better still use a DVI-input on your TV (only few have this).



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