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Thunderbolt Display + PS3. Possible?
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Right now, you cannot. In the future you may be able to do that if an appropriate adapter is released.
I'm also interested in knowing if a tb display can be used for ps3. Would something like this not work? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mac-Neet®-U...68S0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1317413496&sr=8-1
Would be great to get rid of my ugly TV and replace it with a tb display!
Would be great to get rid of my ugly TV and replace it with a tb display!
No. Why would you waste money turning a $1,000 monitor into a television? You can BUY a nice television for the price.
No. That's a miniDisplayPort video (with which TB also is backward-compatible with) to HDMI adapter. Not the other way around. This little box takes a miniDisplayPort signal - which you'll also get out of a Thunderbolt port if nothing else is plugged in to it* - and output an up to 1920x1080 HDMI signal. That's all.
The ONLY THING that can drive a picture on the Apple Thunderbolt Display is a Thunderbolt Mac. Period.
*To complicate things, certain TB peripherals will allow you to daisy chain a single displayport monitor off them, though for very specific technical reasons the Apple Thunderbolt display cannot without another non-video TB peripheral in the chain after it. AnandTech has the technical details well described, and it's not just because Apple felt like being mean; it's a specific TB-protocol hardware limitation.
Given the lack of enthusiasm regarding Thunderbolt adoption among OEMs and the fact that TB requires quite a few electronics components in the cable and at each end of it - I'd not bet my money on it... And even if it appears it is likely it will be costly (I'd guess no less than $100).
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That captures video, it won't connect a non-Thunderbolt PC/Console to a Thunderbolt display. It's also $299.
I'm not the most savvy when it comes to the technical aspects of video cables, but I don't think an adapter is even posibble in this case.
I am pretty sure you can only use component and standard definition cables with the ps3 due to HDMI being locked for video capture by Sony. This is all possible. Try the EasyCap for a cheap solution on amazon.