Reviews for Apple Mini-DVI to DVI Adaptor

I am another who was misled by the packaging. It is reasonable to assume that two products from Apple labeled simply "DVI" should be compatible. And when the company has goofed in this way, their sales people should not try to double-talk you into thinking it's your own fault.

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If you have any doubt on this connection, do a search on Google for "DVI-D", then click on 'images' at the top and look at the first 3-4 pics to see the connection type.

Not sure why so many people are having a problem with this adapter - I got mine, plugged it into my Macbook, plugged an extension into the adapter, and plugged the other into my 32" LCD TV and it worked without a hitch. Maybe all of the DVI ports I have in my house are all DVI-D, ...maybe that's why it was so easy for me.

By the way, Apple's shipping is amazing, I ordered this on a Friday night, and it was at my doorstep Monday at noon. :) ....and that's from the U.S. to Toronto, Canada.

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A picture of the DVI adapter termination would be great. There is a big difference between DVI-D (what this is) and DVI-I (what a lot of people seem to have).

On newer high def panels and sets, HDMI is standard. There are HDMI to DVI adapters, and I think they are usually DVI-D. In my case I need a DVI-D adapter so this is perfect, but I had to do a bit of homework before figuring this out.

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unless you have a brand new apple monitor that will take DVI-D, you gotta buy an adapter. I found a great one for about 10 bucks, which connects the DVI-I of your monitor to the DVI-D of apple's adapter. annoying, but it works.

it's called a DVI-D dual link male to DVI-I dual link female adapter. (i can't post the url on here for some reason).

also, take care as to whether your plugs are dual link or single link (i.e. whether or not they have a gap in the pins or a full three rows of 8).

many thanks to apple for the hours of confusion and adapter hunting.

45 of 58 people found this useful

Just like almost everyone else on here, I was not informed this is a DVI-D connection. Even worse, on the back of the little package, there are 2 logos, one is a mini DVI connection, and the other is a DVI-I connection.... VERY misleading. It has the 4 pins pictured next to the large flat one. Why was this printed with the incorrect logo? It makes the purchase pointless, and just frustrating in the end. At least get the image on the packaging correct.

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While it works fine - it irritates the heck out of me, that after having already paid a premium for buying a MacBook, I now have to bend over again and pay for the ability to connect an external monitor. To those that bought the wrong cable - RTFM!!

27 of 50 people found this useful

I bought this adapter at a local Apple Store and a Monster HDMI-DVI cable on eBay to connect my MacBook to my Hitachi LCD Projection HDTV. This setup works flawlessly, and the MacBook immediately detected and displayed my new extended desktop on my HDTV with the correct native resolution. I use this setup primarily to show iPhoto slide shows and do iChat video chats. I have a separate digital optical cable to plug into my home theater system for the latter. A word of advise: if you want to pay a fraction of the cost for HDMI/DVI cables, buy them online at places like eBay. I bought my 8ft Monster HDMI/DVI cable for $25 after shipping. The same cable sells for >$125 at most retail stores.

38 of 48 people found this useful

The adapter does EXACTLY what its supposed to do...let you connect a second display to your iMac. Of course it has a female connector....so does every dvi connector that I've ever seen on a computer. Although this will work with the DVI port on a high def. tv, yeah, you will need to change the cable because most tv's don't come with their own cable like an LCD monitor does.

16 of 29 people found this useful

Just bought this from a local store to connect a Viewsonic VA712b LCD monitor to my Mac, with the DVI cable the monitor comes with. Works flawlessly.

I had a problem with EyeTV locking up when I first connected the cable, but a single restart took care of that, and I haven't had any problems since then. It's nice having the TV display full-screen on one display, while the controls are displayed on the other screen.

If I had one complaint, it would be that the length of the cable is too short. I am using this with a MacBook that is up on an iCurve stand, and the connectors for this cable and the monitor's cable are dangling in mid-air. I hope it doesn't put too much stress on the mini-DVI port?

Ignore the morons that are giving this cable 1 star because they didn't read the specs. Sadly, Macs tend to attract some of the stupidest users on Earth.

21 of 29 people found this useful

Listen! I read the description, it is extremely vague! I have an expensive DVI monitor at home that I bought last year. A 21" wacom cintiq ($2500) and this adapter does not work. It is missing the holes for some of the pins on my monitor's DVI cable, so I can't even plug it in! You people that downplayed others' one star ratings should know that this is not an issue of old technology alone, this adapter is also incompatible with expensive brand new flat screen monitors.

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