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patzoul · Jan 5, 2005, 04:38 AM

I've got a G4 1.25Mhz. I would like to get a 30" cinema display for my bedroom that I mainly use for watching DVD and/or DivX movies that I wirelessly send via my G4. The cinema display would only be plugged to a box (not a computer) that would be able to input the video and output it to the display.

Is such a box available?

Cadaver · Jan 5, 2005, 07:59 AM

Originally posted by patzoul:
I've got a G4 1.25Mhz. I would like to get a 30" cinema display for my bedroom that I mainly use for watching DVD and/or DivX movies that I wirelessly send via my G4. The cinema display would only be plugged to a box (not a computer) that would be able to input the video and output it to the display.

Is such a box available?

No.

sith33 · Jan 5, 2005, 06:03 PM

Don't think any of the cards that can drive a 30" will work in your g4 anyways. What you need is a nice 42" plasma TV and an eyeHome from elgato.

anamexis · 11:15 PM

Originally posted by Cadaver:
No.

Good answer. No, and don't expect it anytime soon. In fact, don't expect it ever. About the only wireless computer display interfaces are for VGA displays, at very low resolution (640x480). Now recall that the 30" cinema display requires a dual DVI link and has a native resolution of 2560x1600, which is about 13 times as many pixels. The dual DVI (DVI-D) link uses a 9.9 Gbps bandwidth. Airport express is only 54Mbps.

macaddict0001 · Jan 6, 2005, 02:31 AM

its possible but nothing exists or ever will for that matter what's wrong with connecting it through a cable or is it like an apartment setting where you can't put it through walls and such.

patzoul · Jan 6, 2005, 07:46 AM

I could use a cable but then I have to make it go out on my balcony then back into my bedroom.

Thx.

Cadaver · Jan 6, 2005, 11:41 PM

Originally posted by patzoul:
I could use a cable but then I have to make it go out on my balcony then back into my bedroom.

Thx.

No, you can't.

There are no G4-compatible video cards that will drive a 30" Cinema Display. They require a dual-link DVI port which have only been developed for G5 machines.

You'd be better off buying a plasma or LCD TV as someone above suggested and using that instead.

Bottom line is that, at the moment, there is no way to make a G4-based Macintosh drive a 30" Cinema Display.

wuzup101 · Jan 7, 2005, 01:39 AM

Originally posted by macaddict0001:
its possible but nothing exists or ever will for that matter what's wrong with connecting it through a cable or is it like an apartment setting where you can't put it through walls and such.

I wouldn't say never really... just not in the current future... as far as the running a monitor that size without cables. Now the fact that the G4 doesn't have a video card that supports it... that's a different matter and probably will "never" happen.

macaddict0001 · Jan 7, 2005, 01:55 AM

I'm very sure that you can run it off normal dvi just not at full resolution.

Cadaver · Jan 9, 2005, 12:02 PM

Originally posted by macaddict0001:
I'm very sure that you can run it off normal dvi just not at full resolution.

Then what's the point? May as well just buy a similarly sized LCD TV for the same price. And that will have a tuner, multiple video inputs, a remote, etc...

macaddict0001 · Jan 9, 2005, 02:12 PM

An example of a point would be that you could buy it for future expansion.

Cadaver · Jan 9, 2005, 03:52 PM

Originally posted by macaddict0001:
An example of a point would be that you could buy it for future expansion.

Mmmm-kay. Point taken.