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Apple Mini-DVI to Video Adapter

The Mini-DVI to Video adapter is designed for the iMac (Intel Core Duo), MacBook*, and 12-inch PowerBook G4, allowing you to connect to most S-video or Composite enabled devices.

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Customer Rating

4.0

(Based on 130 reviews)

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$19.00

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Overview

The Apple Mini-DVI to Video adapter is designed for use with the iMac (Intel Core Duo), MacBook*, and 12-inch PowerBook G4. The adapter connects to the Mini-DVI port on these computers and provides both S-video and Composite video connectors so that you can view your computer on devices such as TVs, VCRs, or overhead projectors with S-Video or RCA (Composite) connectors. Video cables sold separately.

* This adapter is not compatible with the 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo white MacBook introduced in January 2009.

Customer Rating

4.0

(Based on 130 reviews)

Most Recent Reviews

  • Apple Mini-DVI to Video Adapter

    5.0

    Does exactly what it was intended to do

    Written by EM from Chicago

    May 30, 2009

    Just like a few others here, I bought this cable so my husband and I could watch streaming Netflix on our LCD TV. So far, it's beeRead moren working perfectly. We connected it between our MacBooks with an S-video cable and now we're happily streaming away. The video is a little fuzzy but nothing disruptive, and I imagine that considering the discrepancy between the resolution on the MacBook and our TV, this is fairly unavoidable. A great solution, no complaints!

    (30 of 31 people found this review useful)

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  • Apple Mini-DVI to Video Adapter

    5.0

    mini DVI does not show any movies but only the pc blue screen

    Written by MM from LONDON

    May 15, 2009

    I have a mini DVI adapter but does not work as video. I can see only the blue screen of the computer, but not the movie... can youRead more help?

    (18 of 58 people found this review useful)

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  • Apple Mini-DVI to Video Adapter

    3.0

    Not for Mac Mini (early 2009)

    Written by KC from Ann Arbor

    May 10, 2009

    I bought a Mac Mini (May 2009) and this Mini-DVI to Video adapter with plans to use it to send an S-video signal to an analog TV. Read moreThough the sales staff at the Apple store said it should work, it does not. The graphics card apparently should support it, and it may be addressed with a future driver update, but as of now this does not work. I have used a mini-DVI to VGA adapter and monitor to verify that the port is working, and also verified that the S-video cable and TV input work. There are third party VGA to S-video/RCA adapters available so I plan to use one of those for my purposes. This is probably a 5-star product when used with the right Mac; however, Apple should have made it clear that having a mini-DVI port on your Mac is necessary but not sufficient for this to work - hence the 3 stars.

    (75 of 82 people found this review useful)

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  • Apple Mini-DVI to Video Adapter

    5.0

    Dual-head displays rock - especially on Mac!

    Written by MM from Groton

    Aug 21, 2005

    I bought this to watch DVDs and other video on my television and it does that quite well, but what I'm loving right now is the abiRead morelity to show photo slideshows on it. Using the screensaver which pulls from iPhoto Smart Albums, the system displays two different images from the set on each display making for a beautiful montage.

    Way to go!

    (1349 of 1948 people found this review useful)

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  • Apple Mini-DVI to Video Adapter

    5.0

    Great adapter for my MacBook

    Written by DT from Glastonbury

    Jul 15, 2006

    I picked this adapter up for watching iTunes TV and DVD movies shows via Front Row on my TV from my MacBook. It works well along Read morewith my minijack-to-stereo RCA audio adapter; it's just like having a DVD player with the MacBook's included remote control. Regarding the complaints about low quality such as fuzziness and hard-to-read text, that's a given. A regular TV is NOT a high-resolution monitor. The maximum resolution a standard NTSC TV can have is 720x486, while even the cheapest monitors display at least 800x600, if not 1024x768. If you want crystal-clear text on your TV, you're going to need to pick up a high-definition set or a projector with VGA or DVI input; composite or s-video just isn't going to cut it. With that said, I'm very please with this sub-$20 video adapter.

    (1284 of 1867 people found this review useful)

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  • Apple Mini-DVI to Video Adapter

    4.0

    Works with my 13.3" MacBook Intel

    Written by WJ from Buffalo

    Jul 13, 2006

    I just picked this up to use with my MacBook Intel, so that I can hook into a large video display at a place where I teach.

    I tRead moreested it at home on a small TV and it works fine. So far I've tested only the composite video output, since I don't have a display with an S-video input at home. Since I am in video production I know that an interlaced video image will never look as good as the image on a good computer monitor, especially if the image has thin lines in it where the interlace will dance. But this looks surprisingly good to me.

    I looked at both photographs and DVD outputs and the quality is pretty good. Quality might suffer more with displays of graphics, especially of tables with horizontal and vertical lines, so to check this I fired up Excel to display a grid. Surprisingly, the fine lines that form the cels don't look too bad, though they'd look worse if the grid lines were darker. The print inside the cels is unreadable, but no one in their right mind would try to display such small print to an audience.

    By the way, if you want to show DVDs, you'll have to use preferences to put the display into mirror mode.

    So far looks like a good solution for me, and I'm anxious to test it on a large display with an S-video input.

    (1189 of 1709 people found this review useful)

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