Turning off Macbook screen when displaying through TV using a DVI adapter
Hi,
I’ve recently picked up a nice big TV and doing quite a bit of streaming from my laptop through the TV. However one this that has annoyed me is that the display on my Macbook Pro stays on all the time even when the primary display is the TV. After searching around for a little bit I found this work-around. It only really works well however if you have a remote.
Basically you hook up the TV using a DVI adapter and go into display preferences. Go into the ‘Arrangement’ tab and you’ll see two blue boxes. One of those boxes will have a narrow white rectangle on the top of it. Drag this rectangle over to the TV(i.e. the opposite to the one it is on already) and close the preferences pane. Start up FrontRow and it will automatically turn off the secondary display (now the MBP screen) and you can watch TV without having the secondary display annoying you.
Eddie,
Manage to install bootcamp yet? You can eject a CD by pressing the apple key + E (Should do the same as the eject key). Hope it works and hope all is well with you and Mary!
Fawad
Hey Fawad,
Yeah I’ve installed it(with Vista) not worth booting into it for just watching some TV though. I boot into it every now and then when I want to play games or use something ‘Windowsy’, which isn’t often! I use VMWare sometimes to go into it too but its very slow(even with VMTools installed) and can often stall my whole machine. I’ve installed Parallels but not really given it a go yet.
Hope all’s well!
Ed