PanoTools NG:
Re: Re: Will an HD TV function as a PC display?
R1 2012-Apr-18 05:12:25
Roger -
Apple sells an iPad 2 Digital AV Adapter that has an Apple male 30-pin connector at one end and splits out the other end with a standard female HDMI socket and an Apple 30-pin female socket. I have used this "dongle" on a current gen iPod and iPad. It lists new at about $40 - but i got a refurb from Best Buy for about $25. My iPad it says that the Adapter is not compatible, but it then goes ahead and works just fine. This allows mirroring the idevice display and sound on the TV.
Controlling a TV from the iPad is harder, since it doesn't have an IR emitter If a TV or other device has an network connection with a corresponding idevice app (such as the app provided by Roku for Roku receivers) then you can control the device via the network connection.. Samsung may have a similar app for some TVs - you will need to do an Internet search to see if such an app exists for a particular TV. RedEye (thinkflood.com) makes a Mini IR emitter ($50) that plugs into an idevice headphone jack. Other solutions may exist?
Bob D
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>Subject: Re: [PanoToolsNG] Re: Will an HD TV function as a PC display?
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>Thank you, Bob...
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>On Apr 18, 2012, at 7:08 AM, R1 <#removed#> wrote:
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>I purchased a Sony 55" LCD TV about two years ago. I am using it when needed as a display for a mini-PC i5 WIN7 PC (via VGA connector at 1080), intermittent use with a WIN7 laptop PC (HDMI at 900), and intermittent use with both an iPod and an iPad (HDMI). All work very nicely. I use the TV for PC apps and Internet browsing, Netflix and Amazon movies, TV shows from Hulu and networks, and other on-line sources.
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>I don't understand your reference to HDMI in connection with an iPad. How do you work that? At the moment I can use my iPad to control my PC remotely, viewing the PC screen on the iPad's own display. With the HD TV (and sitting in the same room) I could use the iPad to control the TV display via the PC, but a direct link between iPad and TV would be a LOT simpler!
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>Since you indicated that you will be purchasing the TV locally why not ask if you can return it if it doesn't work acceptably as a PC display?
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>That's unlikely, but it won't hurt to ask...
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>Also be sure to check the specs to see if the TV has a true 1080 panel (I assume that 720 panels are no longer being used, but it doesn't hurt to be certain).
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>Good point. They don't say when they are 720 but all the ones that have 1080 call themselves "True HD" or "Full HD" so I'll watch for that.
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>Roger W.
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