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With the webcast coming up this wed, I want to do it right. Does anyone have a suggestion for a cord that I can pick up from a store thats not crazy expensive? I know the apple store has the one I want but its $50! any suggestions could help!
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I got the hdmi to miniport adapter from best buy for like 25 bucks. You don't have to get the apple one. Just so you know, audio doesn't play through the adaptor. You're gonna need to run a separate audio cable or just listen from your MacBook. I've bought 2 of them and neither of them support audio.
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Me and a friend did it last week for Dicks N1. Don't worry about the price, go to Wal-Mart grab a HDMI cord and all you gotta do is keep the box and receipt and then return it the next day, or withing the next 90 days. Full cash refund and they don't even glance at the product, I could have put an ethernet cord in there and the lady would have given me the $32 back.Also, remember what Slothberries said, you need good speakers.
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I know it doesn't help much as there's a time crunch, but the spot for cheap, pretty damn good quality cables is http://www.monoprice.com/home/index.aspNo need to return with their prices!
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Depends on which model of mac book pro, and I have one a couple years old, so your mileage may vary but mine has a DVI port. I just got a DVI to HDMI adapter and plugged an HDMI cable into my tv but this only does video not audio. For the audio, I took an audio cable and went from the headphone jack on the macbook to an audio-in on my home theatre. Looked awesome and sounded great.
I do remember having to unplug/re-plug the audio cable a couple times to get it to work. Have phun!
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so along these lines, if i have a friend bring over a laptop, can we hook his computer to my tv/soundsystem with just an hdmi cable?
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I have a device that combines the DV out and the audio out into a box that connects to HDMI. The box was around $20 and then you need to buy an HDMI canoe for whatever price you can find one for.
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that $50 dollar cable RULES!! 3 chips, totally worth every penny! One love, one cord. But when all is said and done wireless is the way to role. Just sayin'.
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@Tsac77 said:
I have a device that combines the DV out and the audio out into a box that connects to HDMI. The box was around $20 and then you need to buy an HDMI canoe for whatever price you can find one for.where did you get this box? I have a MacBook too, and it has only a Mini-DVI output, so we have to use an Apple adaptor miniDVI to DVI and then a DVI to HDMI cable to TV for video- and regular RCA cable to earphone jack for audio, which is not quite synced. Joint HDMI audio/video option would be much better but I didn't think was possible on MacBook...
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@Slothberries said: I got the hdmi to miniport adapter from best buy for like 25 bucks. You don't have to get the apple one.Yeah the two options are a mini display to Hdmi cable (which is one unit slowly going out though due to Hdmi suing the company that makes them) or the mini display to Hdmi adapter, then you need an extra Hdmi cable.
Just so you know, audio doesn't play through the adaptor. You're gonna need to run a separate audio cable or just listen from your MacBook. I've bought 2 of them and neither of them support audio.
As for audio. It depends on when you bought your MacBook pro. If you bought it after last summer (2010) then audio and video with be exported through that Hdmi cable. However if it was bought early summer 2010 or before then you will need another cable for audio export.
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@chichi1514 said: @Slothberries said:yes, this is exactly right. Mine is an early 2010 model, and audio is not supported through the hdmi cable. I bought 2 adapters and pulled my hair out of my head before I figured this outI got the hdmi to miniport adapter from best buy for like 25 bucks. You don't have to get the apple one.Yeah the two options are a mini display to Hdmi cable (which is one unit slowly going out though due to Hdmi suing the company that makes them) or the mini display to Hdmi adapter, then you need an extra Hdmi cable.
Just so you know, audio doesn't play through the adaptor. You're gonna need to run a separate audio cable or just listen from your MacBook. I've bought 2 of them and neither of them support audio.
As for audio. It depends on when you bought your MacBook pro. If you bought it after last summer (2010) then audio and video with be exported through that Hdmi cable. However if it was bought early summer 2010 or before then you will need another cable for audio export.
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you could also go mini dvi to VGA. HDMI may be a better bet, but as far as I can tell with my eyes the VGA has the same video quality. My $350 laptop has HDMI... come on apple! Though I have a Macbook (work computer) we choose to use our cheapo laptop for the full digital connection. Noticeably better audio. Laptop-> HDMI-> TV-> Optical-> AV receiver-> 
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There's a FAQ on Phish.net called "Streaming for Couch Tour" written last year when LivePhish started doing this by @CleverRuse which shows all the various connections and cables and has specific info for macs here.
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