Apple Mini-dvi To Video Adapter Review

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(More customer reviews)Reviews are only good if you can learn something from them, so here's what I did with this adapter. Hopefully it'll help you figure out if it's right for you.

It took awhile to figure out which adapter I needed, and then it took awhile to get the right one, but this is it.I wanted to connect a 1.5 GHz Powerbook 12" (aluminum) to a Sony Wega 27" flat-tube TV and watch videos. At first, I though all I would need was a mini-DVI-to-component, and then I learned the difference between "component" and "composite."Didn't matter though, because what I actually needed was this, the mini-DVI-to-Video adapter.(For an iBook G4, I think you'll need mini-VGA-to-video.)

The "Video" stands for S-Video, and any generic S-Video cable will hook up to it. You don't need an expensive Monster cable for this job.

The video quality ranges from acceptable to great. Even though you can see the lines of pixels on such a big TV when you're looking at the desktop, videos recorded at DVD-quality *look* like DVD-quality.Videos (by which I mean legally-acquired TV episodes) encoded at less than DVD-quality look pixelated if they were originally digital broadcasts, for some reason, so while The Invisible Man (new) looks crisp, new Battlestar Galactica looks... chunky. From this, we conclude that that adapter itself works just fine, and it's up to your original file quality to determine how good it will look on the TV.

That said, the screen resolution is 800x600 while the adapter is plugged in, so I wouldn't recommend routing video from a 12" PB to a larger TV than 27" unless you don't mind a little fuzziness.

The adapter also comes with a composite jack, but I haven't used it, so someone else will have to review that aspect. :-)

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Product Description:
The Apple Mini-DVI to Video Adapter was designed specifically for use with the latest 12" PowerBook G4 (models introduced in September 2003). The adapter connects to the Mini-DVI port on the new 12" PowerBook G4 and provides both S-video and Composite video connectors. It allows many devices such as TVs, VCRs, or overhead projectors with S-Video or RCA (Composite) connectors to be connected to your new 12" PowerBook G4.

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