This was getting no love in the home theater forum, so can anyone here help me out? I guess it would be bad ettiquette to post this in the MBP also?
I have recently bought my new Macbook and need to output my display to the Macbook's screen, my external monitor and my TV. Not having to unplug and swap cables every time I need to chance the display setup is my goal. Most of the time I will work with an extended desktop across the Macbook screen and the monitor but I will switch to the TV when watching DVDs/etc. My monitor connection is VGA (DVI connection provides no contrast adjustment on the monitor's control panel) and my TV takes and S-video. I can get adapters & cables for those fine and I have seen these types of adapters on eBay which split a DVI to a DVI and VGA, which would connect everything fine in conjunction with the DisplayPort adapter and DVI to S-video adapter I have already (need to check DVI-D/DVI-I on the splitter).
So I know everything will connect up OK, but would this setup be usable? Could I just flip between a high-res output setting in OS-X when working on my monitor, and a low-res output setting when I want to view on the TV? I know from my old PC that my TV/S-video will accept an 800x600 signal.
Hop that all made sense.
I have recently bought my new Macbook and need to output my display to the Macbook's screen, my external monitor and my TV. Not having to unplug and swap cables every time I need to chance the display setup is my goal. Most of the time I will work with an extended desktop across the Macbook screen and the monitor but I will switch to the TV when watching DVDs/etc. My monitor connection is VGA (DVI connection provides no contrast adjustment on the monitor's control panel) and my TV takes and S-video. I can get adapters & cables for those fine and I have seen these types of adapters on eBay which split a DVI to a DVI and VGA, which would connect everything fine in conjunction with the DisplayPort adapter and DVI to S-video adapter I have already (need to check DVI-D/DVI-I on the splitter).
So I know everything will connect up OK, but would this setup be usable? Could I just flip between a high-res output setting in OS-X when working on my monitor, and a low-res output setting when I want to view on the TV? I know from my old PC that my TV/S-video will accept an 800x600 signal.
Hop that all made sense.