From: Gary Horne (gary@horne.cc)
Date: Mon Sep 08 2003 - 06:47:58 PDT
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 06:47:58 -0700 Subject: Re: pinhole Re: Showing a computer on a TV From: Gary Horne <gary@horne.cc> Message-Id: <0EA50F84-E203-11D7-B3D6-0030654C6092@horne.cc>
Thanks Ron, (and I'm sending this out to all for those interested in
this pursuit)
I really appreciate the time and energy you took trying to find this
out. In fact, what you suggest is exactly what we first did. (I'm
sorry I didn't explain that in the initial email, but I didn't want to
drag on too much) As your research says, the apple website indicates
that a $19.00 adapter allows emacs to connect with TV's. We bought the
product and was surprised that what we had was actually a mini-VGA to
VGA adapter. So we can now connect the eMac to a VGA monitor (as long
as it is about 4 inches away from the eMac!)
Connecting from a VGA to a TV appears to be the real problem, and apple
couldn't help us with that. I love Apple but lately these false
promises of theirs are darn...well....Gates-like!
Gary
On Monday, September 8, 2003, at 01:26 AM, Ronald Wong wrote:
> Gary made an interesting remark in his initial past in which he said:
>
>> Surprisingly, I've had the hardest time locating a product to connect
>> my eMac to my TV. Apple was absolutely no help and the product I did
>> buy (for $100.00), didn't work because the computer "refresh" rate and
>> the TV refresh rate were different.
>
> According to Apple on it's developer's webpage, all you need is the
> appropriate adapter for your emac.
>
> Take a look at:
>
> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Hardware/Developer_Notes/
> Macintosh_CPUs
> -G4/eMac/3Input-Output/chapter_4_section_12.html
>
> Where it says: "The eMac computer has a video output port for
> connecting an
> external video monitor or projector. The port supports both VGA and TV
> signals by means of adapters. The port detects the type of adapter
> connected to it and programs the graphics IC to provide the appropriate
> type of video signals, as shown in the table below."
>
> The "table below" indicated that the video output of the emac would
> support
> VGA, Composite (RCA) TV signals and S-video TV signals
>
> Notice in the announcement that you need one of Apple's connectors
> since
> that is used to determine the output of the graphics card.
>
> I assume your emac came with AirPort Extreme (didn't they all come that
> way? http://www.apple.com/emac/specs.html). The Video adapter is
> listed at
> $19 and you can see what it looks like at:
>
> http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/
> AppleStore?productLearnMore=M91
> 09G/A
>
> I'm surprised that the someone at Apple wasn't able to help you with
> this one.
>
> Even users of IBM clones have ways of hooking up to TV's (although they
> would probably need to get a graphics card with S-video output - unlike
> you).
>
> I hope this inexpensive solution solves your problem (all it required
> was a
> search on Google using "emac video adapter" as the search items).
>
> Lots of luck.
>
> ron
>
>
>
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