Mini Mac and Philips LCD TV

[Andreas Höschler]

Hi all,

we have purchased a 32" Philips LCD / TV and a DVI-HDMI cable to
connect this display to a Mac. The display has a native resolution of
1920x1080 pixel and is to be used for trade shows and the like to
present info to people sitting or standing 3-4m in front of the screen.

We are tearing our hairs out getting this display to work. It worked
out of the box with a very old G4 PowerMac (with a relatively new
graphics card) and with a PowerBook Pro. The graphic cards of these
machines were able to drive te display with its native resolution.
However, we wanted to use this display with a Mini Mac (3 years old)
and all we get with this machine is 1024x768 (no other resolutions
selectable) vi aVGA and nothing at all via DVI/HDMI. I suppose the
graphics card of this mini mac is for whatever reason not able to
generate 1920x1080 and therefore falls back to XGA.

Buying a new mini mac for this is an option. We just want to make sure
that the current mini macs are able to generate this resolution. Any
experiences with a current Mini Mac and 1920x1080 or even with the 32"
Philips LCD/TV 9603?

Thanks a lot,

   Andreas


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[LuKreme]

On 10-Jun-2008, at 05:19, Andreas Höschler wrote:

> Buying a new mini mac for this is an option. We just want to make  
> sure that the current mini macs are able to generate this  
> resolution. Any experiences with a current Mini Mac and 1920x1080 or  
> even with the 32" Philips LCD/TV 9603

Every Mac mini going back to the PowerPC one has supported 1920x1200  
DVI and 1920x1080 VGA.

There is something wrong, but it's not the display abilities of the  
mini, so I doubt very much a new mini will solve this.

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[objectwerks inc-2]

On Jun 10, 2008, at 5:19 AM, Andreas Höschler wrote:

> Buying a new mini mac for this is an option. We just want to make  
> sure that the current mini macs are able to generate this  
> resolution. Any experiences with a current Mini Mac and 1920x1080 or  
> even with the 32" Philips LCD/TV 9603?

I have a first gen intel mini and it works fine with a Samsung 24"  
monitor at 1900x1200.  Did you try a different DVI/HDMI cable?

just a WAG

Chad

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[Andreas Höschler]

Hi,

>> Buying a new mini mac for this is an option. We just want to make
>> sure that the current mini macs are able to generate this resolution.
>> Any experiences with a current Mini Mac and 1920x1080 or even with
>> the 32" Philips LCD/TV 9603?
>
> I have a first gen intel mini and it works fine with a Samsung 24"
> monitor at 1900x1200.  Did you try a different DVI/HDMI cable?

No! This one costed 40 EUR. We don't have a box full of them. :-) But
the cable works great between a very recent PowerBook Po and this
screen so I guess it's not the cable. 1920x1200 is a standard
resolution and supposed to work, 1920x1080 is rather special!?

Thanks,

   Andreas

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[LuKreme]

On 10-Jun-2008, at 08:57, Andreas Höschler wrote:
> 1920x1080 is rather special!?


1920x1080 is a standard VGA resolution.

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[chrissou]

Hello I'm french and i just bought a 42PFL9603H/10 philips.
I've already the same problem as you.
When i plug my mac mini with SVGA, the LCD work only in 1024x768 ...
With DVI => hdmi plug the LCD didn"t work

Have you find any solution ?

Thanks a lot

Andreas Höschler wrote:

Hi all,

we have purchased a 32" Philips LCD / TV and a DVI-HDMI cable to
connect this display to a Mac. The display has a native resolution of
1920x1080 pixel and is to be used for trade shows and the like to
present info to people sitting or standing 3-4m in front of the screen.

We are tearing our hairs out getting this display to work. It worked
out of the box with a very old G4 PowerMac (with a relatively new
graphics card) and with a PowerBook Pro. The graphic cards of these
machines were able to drive te display with its native resolution.
However, we wanted to use this display with a Mini Mac (3 years old)
and all we get with this machine is 1024x768 (no other resolutions
selectable) vi aVGA and nothing at all via DVI/HDMI. I suppose the
graphics card of this mini mac is for whatever reason not able to
generate 1920x1080 and therefore falls back to XGA.

Buying a new mini mac for this is an option. We just want to make sure
that the current mini macs are able to generate this resolution. Any
experiences with a current Mini Mac and 1920x1080 or even with the 32"
Philips LCD/TV 9603?

Thanks a lot,

   Andreas


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