#Connect macbook to hdmi tv tv#
#Connect macbook to hdmi tv windows#

Plug the cable into your Mac’s Audio out port and multi-channel audio gets sent to your AV gear.

HDMI audio output appears as an option in DVD Player when you use the Moshi adapter.Īdapters such as Monoprice’s $49 Mini DisplayPort Male and USB Male/Toslink Audio to HDMI Female Converting Adapter add a Toslink digital audio cable to this configuration. Note that the audio that plays is stereo only-these two devices don’t play multi-channel audio. To configure audio for these two adapters so that it flow through the adapter to your connected gear, open the Sound system preference and select USB Sound Device in the Output tab.

#Connect macbook to hdmi tv tv#

Plug the two cables into your Mac and string an HDMI cable (not included with any of the adapters I looked at) between the adapter box and your TV or AV receiver. Monoprice’s $37 Mini DisplayPort Male and USB Male Audio to HDMI Female Converting Adapter and Newer Technology’s $50 Mini DisplayPort/USB Stereo to HDMI Adapter are two good examples of rectangular adapter boxes a little smaller than a deck of cards that bear a female HDMI connector on one end and a Mini DisplayPort and USB cable on the other. Video-only is common with less expensive cables. Within the Mac’s display window you can click Arrangement and then enable the Mirror Displays option to have the Mac’s display and TV show the same image.

#Connect macbook to hdmi tv windows#

As with the other adapters, to view the DisplayPort video, launch the Displays system preference and two windows appear-one for the Mac’s display and another for the connected TV. You have to provide your own audio cable and connect it to your AV gear to have sound play through that gear. Bott’s $29 Mini DisplayPort to HDMI Adapter II, are for making video-only connection. Yes, they all output good looking video, but of the five adapters, one supports only video out, two support video out as well as stereo audio out through a USB connector, one supports video out and stereo- and multi-channel audio out through an included Toslink cable connected to the Mac’s Audio out port, and yet another outputs both video and stereo- and multi-channel audio through the DisplayPort connector on compatible Macs. Wait, before you click through to another page, it’s important to understand that they don’t all have the same capabilities. I tested five of these adapters and here’s what I found. With these connectors and the appropriate adapter, you can easily deliver digital video (and, with some adapters, digital audio as well) from your Mac to your AV gear. You’ll find a Mini DisplayPort connector on all of Apple’s currently shipping computers. Then along came DisplayPort, an interface standard that offers digital video and audio connections between computers, monitors, and home theater equipment. Few TVs offer DVI ports so, up to this point, it’s been a matter of using an adapter that converts DVI to composite video or paying for a DVI-to-HDMI adapter. The audio connection has been simple enough-just string a stereo cable between the Mac’s Audio out port to an input port on your receiver. As Macs move from the home office to the living room, people increasingly want to connect their computers to their TVs and AV gear-setting up a Mac mini-based media center, for example.