mac Mini with a panasonic Plasma

What the best way to connect it up I guess through VGA or PC Input rather than HDMI? Are you sure it will work on my plasma without a hitch?

What is the New Mini due?
 
Rookies said:
how u mean this? Am not too sure what the true res is. What has it to be to get the results to be good?
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Some of the panasonic plasma's have a resolution which is normally found on a 4:3 monitor/screen (eg. 1024 x 768) but the plasma is obviously in the widescreen format. This means that the pixels themselves are wider than they are tall. SO... if you connect the mac-mini to the plasma and set the mac-mini's res to the same as the tv then people will appear shorter and fatter than they should for example.

From a high level there are (i think) 2 methods to combat this (neither i suspect being perfect).
1) Change the resolution of the mac-mini to a widescreen one. This will make the aspect of EVERYTHING correct again, but fine details (on text/webpages etc) will not look as good as they should as you're outputting a resolution higher than the tv natively supports.
2) Use software to change the aspect of video's whilst they are being played. The downside being that EVERYTHING ELSE will still be stretched slightly wider than it should be (text/webpages/photo's/desktop/etc). But atleast it will still be mapping 1:1.

HTH
 
And yes my tv is 1024 x 768 sadly... So is best to use VGA for this or HDMI??

What software does this changes?

As I could try my MBP on it first to see if I like it first and if it good enough then i may invest in a new mac mini when they come out if they do... But another issue screen burn?????
 
Well I use 1280x768 via VGA on my 37PX80 from a 8800GT and it is fine, as I checked it with a test card.

It's not as good with text as my Philips 20in 1680x1050 LCD, but a Mac might be better, or using HDMI.
 
I've got my mini running 1920x1080 and it's perfect on my Samsung (1080 set), Running 1024x768 on a 720 set isn't that bad for films etc but if you intend to use it as a monitor it's not ideal but give it a go, for light use it was OK for me.
 
Avalon said:
I've got my mini running 1920x1080 and it's perfect on my Samsung (1080 set), Running 1024x768 on a 720 set isn't that bad for films etc but if you intend to use it as a monitor it's not ideal but give it a go, for light use it was OK for me.
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So how did you get the aspect to be correct on the 1024 x 768 set then?
Did you set the res to a widescreen res (like 1280x768)? or did you use some software to change the aspect of video's? or did you just make do with short fat people? :D

Also what spec mini are you running?

and finally... when you're not using the mini do you know if it drops into standby and how much power it uses?
 
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