Mac OS X, now HDTV-ready with 10.6

Got a fancy new Mac with some flavor of DisplayPort connector and a shiny new copy of OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard installed? If you do and you also happen to hook said Mac up to an HDTV via an HDMI adapter, then head on over to System Preferences to check out the latest uncovered Snow Leopard nugget of awesomeness.

Three new resolution options are now available for your HDTV-viewing experience: 720p, 1080i, and 1080p. This should be good news for anyone rocking the HTMac set-up, or even for anyone who wants to check it out and may not be fully-versed with some of the issues.

We've tried to reproduce the above using a DVI -> VGA adapter and have thus far found bupkis. We're not sure if this works with DVI -> HDMI either, but we do know it works with DisplayPort -> HDMI. Check it out for yourself and let us know your results.

Thanks to Jay for sending this in via Twitter.

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Source: http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/os-x-operating-system/16491…

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vitamin c

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Thank you so much for sharing such a nice information. I like this site. It is very informative. I will surely bookmark it for future use. Good work! keep it up.

September 07 2009 at 6:35 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Matt

I see those new display settings on a Mac Mini with DVI port and DVI to HMDI interposer connected to HDMI port on Mitsubishi TV.

September 05 2009 at 2:43 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Todd

Yup, over and underscan is still an issue on my 42in 1080 panny plasma. Nothing new here...

September 03 2009 at 1:57 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

wordjazz

September 02 2009 at 5:40 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

toby

I have a new Mac Mini connected through Displayport -> HDMI to my 42" Panasonic FullHD and the 1080p thing works quite nice. I already had the full resolution before SL without any tweaks. But the problem I now have is color dept. It looks like only 12-16Bit with bad artifacts and all but there is no where to change the color depth.

September 02 2009 at 7:12 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Beau

Funny, I have the exact same issue! Colour looks really awful on my 42" Panasonic TV (MacBook > Mini-DisplayPort to HDMI > TV). :(

September 04 2009 at 10:45 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

wow

Wow. Aside from the new little TV logos, this has been in OS X since Tiger.

September 01 2009 at 5:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Tyler

The TV symbol means it supports YCbCr color output to an HDTV.... before you only got RGB output.

September 01 2009 at 6:18 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Matt

This isn't new in snow leopard, i've been running a dvi to hdmi from my macbook pro mid 2007 to a panasonic 720p tv for a while with leopard at 720p resolution

September 01 2009 at 1:46 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Risto T

Nothing new here.

Still no way to add custom resolutions.. AND DisplayConfigX no longer works (Custom and HD resolutions are grayed out) ..

I had to use SwitchResX (wow can you say 'creeping featuritis') just to add back my 1152x656 resolution that works with my rear projection TV.

BTW, anyone know of a command line way of installing resolutions without having to use a god awful GUI?

September 01 2009 at 11:46 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

ileet971

sl broke my dvi to vga on my tv netflix viewing, crashes now.

September 01 2009 at 11:06 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

naxalite

SL broke my dvi to vga netflix viewing. Crashes

September 01 2009 at 11:03 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply