HDMI Outputs!

[Mario8672]

Wouldn't it be so cool if iMacs, Mac Minis, and Macbook (Pros) all had an HDMI Output?

With this you could connect your machine to your Home Theatre TV and see your Mac OS X screen on a huge 1080p screen! IMO, it just makes a lot more sense than spending roughly 2000 bux on a mere 30" display with not a lot of flexibility at that price point.

HDMI OUT!

[#1 Rhapsody]

Yes that would be nice

[ElDiabloConCaca]

Wouldn't it be so cool if iMacs, Mac Minis, and Macbook (Pros) all had an HDMI Output?

With this you could connect your machine to your Home Theatre TV and see your Mac OS X screen on a huge 1080p screen! IMO, it just makes a lot more sense than spending roughly 2000 bux on a mere 30" display with not a lot of flexibility at that price point.

HDMI OUT!

A "mere" 30" display? That 30" display has roughly twice the pixels of any 720p HDTV, and about 40% to 50% more pixels than any 1080p HDTV.

Monitors and TVs are vastly different, despite both being flat and both being used to view video.

I think the first time you hook up your Mac to a flat-screen TV, you'll be disappointed. While the screen size is a lot larger than a monitor, the icons, text and graphics will also be scaled larger. What that means is that even though you're viewing a much larger screen, your desktop hasn't gotten any "bigger" (in terms of usable space).

It's much like viewing a 20" monitor through some kind of magnifying glass, rather than upgrading from a 20" monitor to a 30". The former, you have the exact same amount of pixels, so everything is just bigger. The latter, you have more pixels, hence more desktop real estate... and the icons are just as big as they were on the 20" monitor.

I'd take a lowly 22" monitor over a 40" 1080p HDTV any day of the week.

Besides... you can use an adapter that costs less than $15 to get HDMI output on your Mac mini, MacBook, etc.:

http://www.buy.com/retail/product.as...ingid=46329473

[icemanjc]

I'd be happy with an Apple's 30" display anyday! I'm stuck with a mere 32" CRT!! Now imagine playing videos on that.....

[TonyK]

There are mini-DVI to HDMI converters I believe.

[ElDiabloConCaca]

Kind of like the inexpensive one I linked to two posts prior?

[TonyK]

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[mdnky]

ElDiablo hit exactly what I was gonna say. While it might be a "neat" feature for a few people, in reality very few owners would ever use it and the quality isn't that great. Quality is usually the more important factor to the Mac consumer base at large.