hdmi to rca???

[Beanstine32]

i have a mini port to hdmi cable, but my tv has the 3 rca inputs(red,yellow,and white) and would it work if i got a hdmi to rca wire?
im not expecting it to be in hd but just display the mac.

 

[balamw]

HDMI is digital, Composite (Yellow/Red/White) is analog. You need something more along the lines of a miniDP to VGA and VGA to composite (yellow) adapter.

EDIT: You could consider something like this: http://www.monoprice.com/products/p...=10114&cs_id=1011411&p_id=8667&seq=1&format=2

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[Phildo]

I was in a similar predicament a few months ago.

I ended up buying a secondhand LCD TV cheap. People are regularly upgrading and dumping off their older ones cheap.

 

[Beanstine32]

so it won't even display if i had it hooked up like that?

 

[snaky69]

so it won't even display if i had it hooked up like that?

Probably not.

Is it an older CRT model? Those have 640x480 resolution, so barely anything fits on them anyways, the TV would be next to useless as a computer screen.

 

[simsaladimbamba]

Maybe this can help too:

How to: Connect a MacBook, MacBook Air, or MacBook Pro to a TV

Most common video interfaces on external computer displays and TVs

Common video interfaces on Macs and the appropriate adapters to connect to other display devices

Most common audio interfaces on external computer displays, TVs and the Mac​

 

[Interstella5555]

so it won't even display if i had it hooked up like that?

The only reason you would want to do this is to watch movies/shows, a tv like that will be unusable as a monitor for even basic computing tasks. That said, you can definitely hook it up, you just need the right adapters.

 

[Beanstine32]

but it would still display? like on a sound system it don't have any hdmi ports only the rca(red, yellow, and white) and the component(red, green, and blue) inputs.

does the component inputs(red, green, and blue) have sound or is it just video?