SOCIAL: hooking mac mini to tv

[Kelly hawk]

Your TV needs to have either a DVI or HDMI input. As long as it does,  
then you just need to get a longish DVI-to-DVI or DVI-to-HDMI cable.  
Keep your receipt - defective cables are common, and paying more is  
no guarantee of better quality.
If you TV doesn't have such an input, but does have component input  
(look for red, green, blue RCA jacks on the back) you might as well  
buy an AppleTV; by the time you paid for the cable and a converter  
box, you'll have paid as much as an Apple TV costs.
This takes care of the video. For audio, you need a 1/8" mini- 
headphone plug to RCA plug cable, to go from the headphone jack of  
the mac mini to the RCA inputs on the back of your TV or stereo. The  
best way to extend this cable is to get a 1/8" plug to 1/8" jack  
headphone extension cable.
If your TV doesn't have any of these inputs... hmmm, time for a new  
TV? ;-)

On Dec 27, 2007, at 1:52 PM, Steven Graham wrote:

> Ok, I am somewhat of a ludite in the social circle,
> but does anyone know if you can hook up a mac mini to
> your  tv somehow ... I rarelly watch movies and the
> times I do I dont' mind dragging a cord over from my
> computer.  Is it possible
>
> Steve
>
>
> --- Eric Arons <ericarons at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> More info:
>>
> http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/nanosolar-begins- 
> production-413.html
>>
>> It's exciting, but we'll see how it plays out.
>>
>> On Dec 21, 2007 11:30 AM, Randall Isaac
>> <randall at deadletter.com> wrote:
>>
>>> That's great.  My email was not intended to slam
>> NanoSolar or what they
>>> are doing.  It was just to point out that if they
>> make a PR claim like
>>> $1/watt and they want anyone to take them
>> seriously, then they have to
>>> back it up.  They need to come out and say "Here
>> is a solar panel we
>>> make, these are its specs, and this is its cost."
>>  And until they are
>>> willing to do that, the mainstream media is quite
>> right in ignoring the
>>> claim.  Since their website says the first 12
>> months of production is
>>> already sold, they may not care how much coverage
>> they get.
>>>
>>> Randall
>>>
>>> brian kusler wrote:
>>>> i got to hang out at nanosolar a couple of
>> months ago while my
>>>> brother was down here (he's an electron
>> microscope engineer)...
>>>> what's so different about nanosolar is that they
>> just went the
>>>> opposite direction of all the other solar
>> companies -- rather than
>>>> trying to wring more energy out of a square
>> meter of roof space by
>>>> boosting the efficiency, they focused on mass
>> production techniques
>>>> and dollars per watt.
>>>>
>>>> the other thing that's really cool about their
>> stuff is that their
>>>> panels have a one month energy payback time.
>> with traditional solar
>>>> panels, it takes about 3 years for them to
>> produce the energy used to
>>>> create them. it's another major environmental
>> win. since all most
>>>> people care about is DOLLAR payback time, it
>> should halve that time
>>>> (to appx 3 years).
>>>>
>>>> when we put panels onto our roof, our HOA was
>> very concerned that we
>>>> not take up more than "our share" of the roof
>> space with our panels,
>>>> in case other units in our building wanted
>> panels of their own. using
>>>> normal Sharp panels, we just barely fit. if
>> nanosolar's were
>>>> significantly less efficient than the 14% rating
>> of the Sharp, we
>>>> wouldn't have had room it.
>>>>
>>>> : b
>>>>
>>>>
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