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The superdrive is not a HD DVD or Blu-ray drive. So "HD-DVD"s are out. You can play some HD channels with a compatible device like this.

The monitor is called "HD" but it's not an HD television.

I doubt the Apple DVD player would play them, and I doubt mplayer or VLC have that feature yet, but there may be other 3rd party software that'll do it.

...wait...are you talking about running a set-top HD DVD player into your Cinema Display? No, that won't work either. Even if you got an HD DVD player with DVI out and plugged it straight into your monitor, it's not going to recognize the signal. It's the same cable, but that is all.

Back2Macagain wrote:

Pottymouth, thank you for the help.  The TV tuners will be great I'm sure.  I have one last question, does the monitor and computer support HD games?

You mean a game running on the Mac? I guess? I really only ever play Photoshop, so I dunno what games are out there that would run at full res on a Cinema Display.



HEY! Looky here!
http://www.macnn.com/articles/06/01/07/ … nectivity/

lysolman wrote:

If Rogers Digital provides a HD cable box with HDMI, you should be able to hook up your Apple Display to it. You'll just need a HDMI to DVI cable and you're good to go with video. You'll still have to hook up audio. HDMI is DVI video paired with digital audio on the same cable. With the HDMI to DVI cable, you just take the video out to the monitor.

I know you can view HD-DVDs made from DVD Studio Pro 4, but I'm not sure about commercial DVDs. I guess you can try it, I'm not sure the availability of HD-DVDs right now.

Blu-Ray with definitely not work on that drive.

Hope some of that helps. :-)

Good luck.

the dvi out on a comcast cable box does not show a signal to the cinema display
i tired it

something about some kind of signal srcambling

Last edited by nittany4 (2006-08-30 3:48 pm)