


Note: If your Mac has a Mini DisplayPort, make sure you use a cable (and adapter, if necessary) that supports both audio and video.Ĭheck whether you can play audio from your Mac on your TV If your Mac has a Mini DisplayPort, it may be able to send audio to your HDTV. If you want to play audio on a different device (such as your computers speakers or an AV receiver thats part of your sound system), select it instead. Open the Output pane for me Select your HDTV in the list of devices. Open the Display pane for me If you want your HDTV to play audio as well as video from your Mac, choose Apple menu System Preferences, click Sound, then click Output. Select Default for display to automatically use the best resolution, or select Scaled to manually select a resolution.

If you have an HDTV and a Mac with a Thunderbolt port, Mini DisplayPort, or HDMI port, you may also be able to play audio from your computer on your TV.Ĭonnect your Mac to your TV Connect one end of the video cable (or an adapter, if necessary) to the computers Thunderbolt port, HDMI port, or DVI port, then connect the other end of the cable to the TVs video input port.
