[mythtv-users] Cheapest MacBook now VDPAU-compatible

[Steven Adeff]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Brad DerManouelian
> <myth at dermanouelian.com> wrote:
>> On Jan 28, 2009, at 1:08 PM, Steven Adeff wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> 2009/1/28 Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com>:
>>>>> ah, that I did not know! when did they start adding that?
>>>>
>>>> As far as I know, all macbooks and macbook pro always had a digital
>>>> audio output.. This isn't new.
>>>
>>> weird, I remember a while back I asked one of the "Genius's" if they
>>> had digital audio output and he told me no, just analog stereo...
>>
>> January 2005 17" PowerBook was the first Mac laptop to have built-in optical
>> audio and I believe every one since then has had it. So you either asked
>> before 2005 or the "Genius" was wrong.
>
> ah, it was definitely before 2005!

so I decided to go to the web page for the new Macbooks, looks like
they have mini-DisplayPort, *not* mini-DVI, there is a *big*
difference!!

Does anyone know if the Macbook mini-displayport connector/nvidia
chipset is capable of multichannel LPCM output (regardless of where it
was obtained from)?

-- 
Steve
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