[P1] Connecting my iBook to a Television

[Pat D. Stephens]

Meg,

I have the same machine, I think, purchased Dec. 21 and it takes an 
adapter and an S cable...and the one you have works on the 500, but not 
a firewire.

Pat
On Saturday, January 11, 2003, at 11:47 PM, Meg St. Clair wrote:

> Okay, I know that this subject has been addressed relatively recently 
> but
> I'm still confused. I want to connect my iBook to my television, 
> mostly to
> watch DVDs on a larger screen. My DVD player is a bit flakey and it 
> would
> also be nice to be able to watch DVDs at my DVD player-less boyfriend's
> house.
>
> I have a 700 MHz 12 inch iBook (System Profiler calls it Version 1.2,
> whatever that means), purchased, I think, in May 2002 or thereabouts. 
> It has
> 2 USB ports and a Firewire port. According to "Help", I need a Video 
> Adapter
> which plugs into the video out port. According to the nice young man 
> at the
> local Apple Store, I can use the A/V cable that plugs into the headset 
> jack,
> which I bought. Knowledge Base seems vaguely to indicate that this 
> might
> work. If it does, I haven't figured out how.
>
> So, does anyone know if this cable I purchased will work on my iBook? 
> What
> "model" iBook do I have? Is what I want to do actually possible?
>
> Meg
>