Connect your Mac to a HDTV

Connecting your Mac to a HDTV should be a relatively easy thing to do but it may require more planning ahead than you might expect. My recent experience will help explain why this post seemed important to help others out in this area. I recently did a slideshow in Aperture for a close friend for her mother’s funeral. I only had time to generate the export to a file on an external hard drive prior to them leaving town for the funeral. Ideally, I would have created a DVD for the movie. A DVD becomes readily playable in many more situations than just a digital file. The DVD could have easily been played at the church on a regular DVD player or BluRay player. Unfortunately, time constraints prevented that option until after the funeral. continue reading…

Quality Cables for Less

After you decide on that new HDTV you will likely be hooking up additional equipment to it with an HDMI cable. Since you probably got a good deal on the TV and components why would you think twice about just adding the cable from the same store.

Stop right there.

Cables are often high profit items at your local electronics store. My suggestion is to look online for your cables. An excellent choice is MonoPrice.com.

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