[Ti] Ti-500 to LCD projector

[Justin R. Miller]

Did you try hitting F7 or otherwise toggling the preference for 
"mirrored displays" vs. "dual displays"?  It should be in the 
"Displays" preference pane.

On Saturday, June 21, 2003, at 04:30  PM, Trevor J. Hutley wrote:

>
> This evening, I was at a small business event, where there was a 
> speaker.  He had a PC laptop, and his presentation was in Powerpoint. 
> We had an almost new LCD projector.  When we were "setting up" before 
> the meeting, he told us that he had a short (50 Mb) mpg movie to show 
> during his presentation.  When he ran it on his PC laptop, it was OK 
> on the laptop screen, but did not appear on the big projector screen.
>
> I said, let me try it with my Ti-500.  So I connected my Ti-book to 
> the LCD projector, and my 'desktop' background was projected by the 
> LCD projector on to the big screen.
>
> His presentation and movie were on a CD.
> When I launched the mpg movie (Quicktime 6.3) it apened and ran  on my 
> Ti-book screen.
>
> However, it was not visible (nothing was except my desktop) on the big 
> screen.
>
> Then another colleague put the CD in to his (3 year old) PC laptop, 
> opened the movie with QT5, and the movie ran fine on his screen and 
> was immediately viewable on the big screen as well.
>
> So all was fine, as far as our speaker and his presentation.
>
> However, I was very disappointed that my Ti500 did not perform !
> The igmony of an old PC running Quicktime to show a movie that my 
> Apple laptop could not project.
>
> Does anyone have any idea what I should have done?  Why was the LCD 
> projector correctly detected, the desktop (background ) shown on hte 
> big screen, but nothing else?
>
> My Displays Preferences did not show me anything to check ot change.
>
> I am sure the answer is very simple, but I could not find it in the 
> short time available.
>
> Your experience, wisdom and suggestions are welcome, so that next 
> time, the Ti-book will perform correctly.
>
> regard,  Trevor
>
> Ti-500/10.2.6/1Gb RAM
>
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