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Output widescreen to TV?
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nJm
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Sep 28, 2004, 10:58 PM
 
I bought the composite/S-Video adaptor for my iBook G4 to plug into a Panasonic 32" widescreen CRT tv. The iBook can only output at 4:3 resolutions, so either I have to live with a seriously squashed image with the TV set to Justify or 16:9 mode, or have big black bars going down the sides.

Is there any solution? I understand it would be different if I had a Plasma or LCD TV which was connected via a VGA or DVI plug.
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Oct 2, 2004, 07:16 PM
 
I can't say definitively, as I have not tried this. However, my understanding is that you would need a Powerbook to have different external and internal resolutions. Hence, widescreen output would be different from the internal video.

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Oct 3, 2004, 05:13 AM
 
I should have mentioned I have the screen spanning hack, which allows any resolution (depending on display plugged in, naturally).
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