Good evening - So after 15 years of storage, I pulled out my trusty ol G5 (dual 1.8ghz PPC I think). Plugged it in, turned it on and viola! Fired right up. One big problem... I have no monitor! What do I do? I'd like to hook it up to my TV but I highly doubt any of these dvi to HDMI amazon connectors will work. Do I buy a cheap monitor, what kind of monitor do I need? In short, I have tons of old skate clips that I filmed from the early 2000s that I'd like to extract. Any help would be appreciated... I'll continue searching in the meantime... thanks
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I need a monitor for Powermac G5
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dvi to hdmi should work fine, they use the same TMDS signal from what i recall. did the same for an old win98 PC that used DVI and it worked perfectly on my HDMI TV.
This is correct - I've used a DVI to HDMI cable with my G5 and my HDTV without any issues.
ACD 23" came with one of my G5s. Its a nice monitor and they are super cheap. With little luck you could find one locally for similar price than a mere cable. Of course if you don't have desk space for another monitor then a cable which you can use to connect to your existing display or TV is obviously a good option.
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I had my Quad G5 connected to my 55" HDTV from 2018 to 2020 using a DVI to HDMI adapter. Plug and play, no issues.
Adjusting for the resolution and frequency I wanted to use though was a bit of work.
PS. Goodwill is always selling monitors. You can pick one up for $5 to $10 depending on screen size. They also tend to sell HDTVs in the 24 to 32 inch range that can also be used as monitors with a DVI to HDMI adapter. Some of those TVs might also have VGA ports. These will run you a bit more though.
My last acquisition was a 24" Dell display for $12.
HDMI is actually DVI - just with a sound channel added. So yeah, that's why it works.This is correct - I've used a DVI to HDMI cable with my G5 and my HDTV without any issues.
What search terms are you using. I periodically go over there looking (was over there today) and I'm still seeing prices in the $40 to $80 range with $30 plus for shipping. And that's for the 20".
I don't have a g5 tower but I have an apple TV hackintosh. Any monitor works, so long as the resolution will fit. I use a HDMI to DVI cable on this cheap "chimei" monitor I found at a thrift store for the ATV box. Any monitor should do the trick as long as It can take the resolution.
no problemo. if i'm honest i'm glad whatever engineers who worked on these standards managed to simplify DVI into HDMI/displayport, considering how darn bulky those DVI cords were. also don't get me started on like the 32 million different variants of DVI out there for super high-res (above FHD) displays... can't even get my old 30" apple cinema display to work properly on my computer (gpu is nvidia RTX 2070) so i ended up sticking with my dell ultrasharp monitors that i found at a goodwill 2nd chance outlet.
you shouldn't have any problems, though! i just remember DVI being a pain if you had more high-end or complicated equipment, especially if you want to reuse an old 1600p monitor with some 'spensive active converter.