hdmi to rca???

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  1. Beanstine32, Apr 22, 2012

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    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.
     
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  2. balamw, Apr 22, 2012

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  3. Phildo, Apr 22, 2012

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    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.
     
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  4. Beanstine32, Apr 23, 2012

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    so it won't even display if i had it hooked up like that?
     
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  5. snaky69, Apr 23, 2012

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    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.
     
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  7. Interstella5555, Apr 23, 2012

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    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.
     
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  8. Beanstine32, Apr 23, 2012

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    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?
     
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