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Early 08 MBP: New HDTV Connection?

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wayland1985

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My old Powerbook had an S-Video output that I used to connect to my TV. Since then I've bought a MBP, and recently I purchased a Samsung PN50B550T2F TV (My first HD... went a little overboard!!!).


I want to connect my MBP to it so that I can watch some online content: Southpark studios.


What's the best way to go about doing this? What kind of cables (audio/video) should I buy?
 
what kind of video outputs does that laptop have besides s-video.

A little off topic question i have, are powerbooks and ibooks considered Macs?
 
wayland1985 said:
My old Powerbook had an S-Video output that I used to connect to my TV. Since then I've bought a MBP, and recently I purchased a Samsung PN50B550T2F TV (My first HD... went a little overboard!!!).


I want to connect my MBP to it so that I can watch some online content: Southpark studios.


What's the best way to go about doing this? What kind of cables (audio/video) should I buy?
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check here,
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/792106/

if you have any questions maybe you should reply there
 
To connect your MBP to your new HD tv you will need one of these two connectors,

I.Mini DVI to VGA, if you TV has VGA.
II.Mini DVI to DVI, again if your tv has this type of input, or you could add another adaptor to the DVI cable and change it over to HDMI to get your 1080P image.


rgarjr said:
A little off topic question i have, are powerbooks and ibooks considered Macs?
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Yes Powerbooks and iBooks are macs they are just the predecessor to the MacBook Pro and MacBook. Most of Apples product line changed its name when they dropped the PowerPC processor and made the transition to Intel, PowerMac became Mac Pro, only computers that did not change name in the processor change are iMac and Mac Mini. Only reason they hadn't changed they don't have Power or PPC resemblance in there names, being that Apple wanted to separate them selves from the old ways of PPC and welcome Intel

Sorry get off topic and all nostalgic ... :eek:
 
If you have a macbook pro that is a non unibody then the answer is as simple as can be.

DVI->HDMI

Done
 
pepe8714 said:
If you have a macbook pro that is a non unibody then the answer is as simple as can be.

DVI->HDMI

Done
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That's what I was looking at, but I couldn't tell if this was a DVI output or not...



Does the DVI have audio features too, or will I need to run a separate component audio cable???
 
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