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tv doesn't work in osx

OrganichuOrganichu poopspeesRegistered User regular
edited May 2011 in Help / Advice Forum
it's a polaroid seven twenty p television

it recognizes the tv, and if i arrange my displays adjacently, my pointer (and dragged windows) 'go off' to the telvision side

but it's all static or blackness with the occasional flicker of the desktop

it works 100% perfectly in windows, and used to work fine in osx

it stopped working in osx a couple months ago and now i just reformatted and that didn't fix it

it's recognized as 'zoran hdmi tv' in both windows and snow leopard, i think

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  • aperlscriptaperlscript Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Organichu wrote: »
    it's a polaroid seven twenty p television

    it recognizes the tv, and if i arrange my displays adjacently, my pointer (and dragged windows) 'go off' to the telvision side

    but it's all static or blackness with the occasional flicker of the desktop

    it works 100% perfectly in windows, and used to work fine in osx

    it stopped working in osx a couple months ago and now i just reformatted and that didn't fix it

    it's recognized as 'zoran hdmi tv' in both windows and snow leopard, i think

    Are you sure OSX is putting out the right resolution to the the TV?

    System Preferences -> Displays, and then hit the "Gather Windows" button to get a list of available resolutions for both your main screen and TV. Flip through the list for the TV and see if any other resolutions work.

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  • AtomBombAtomBomb Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I'm not a mac guy, but I had to help a presenter recently who was trying to hook up his macbook to a projector and it was doing as you described. Somehow it got set to output at a rather high refresh rate that was fine for the laptop display but not for the projector. I dropped it back to 60hz or so and all was well.

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