[mythtv-users] Cheapest MacBook now VDPAU-compatible

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Jan 28, 2009, at 1:50 PM, Douglas Mayle wrote:

>> Mini-DisplayPort is kind of annoying - The port itself supports  
>> audio, but no adaptors currently support it. There is no mini- 
>> DisplayPort->HDMI even though the port is fully capable of it.  
>> Typical proprietary crap even though you can license the port for  
>> free from Apple, no one has made anything for it except Apple so far.
> You've actually got that one wrong... HDMI is typical proprietary  
> crap... DisplayPort is an open VESA standard.  Sure, Apple created  
> the mini-displayport interface, but it's since been accepted as the  
> open VESA standard...

Even if it is "technically" a standard, the only company that makes  
adaptors for the port is Apple and they aren't making an HDMI or  
Component adaptor for it. Your options are to buy their display or to  
buy their DVI adaptor - and that's the crap part.

-Brad