On 9/1/21 3:17 PM, Warren Kumari wrote:
On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 2:28 PM <b...@theworld.com
<mailto:b...@theworld.com>> wrote:
Every time I've read a thread about using TVs for monitors several
people who'd tried would say don't do it.
And everytime I see an email thread about the difference or not
between monitors and TVs I'm taken over by an all consuming rage...
I have a **monitor**.... I purchased it from Dell, and it clearly said
"monitor" on the box, it identifies itself somewhere display settings
as a "monitor", and even says "monitor" in small letters somewhere on
the back.... It's a MONITOR dagnabit... but, for some unfathomable
reason it has some tiny little speakers in it, and every time I
connect it via HDMI to my Mac laptop, the machine decides to
completely ignore the fact that I've told it that I want to use a
specific sound output, and starts playing all audio though the
monitors speakers. Oh, and because this is HDMI, and Apple apparently
follows the HDMI spec, the Mac volume controls won't work ("This
device has no audio level control" or something...) and I have to go
scrummaging around in some horrendous on-screen monitor menu to make
it less obnoxiously loud...
Huh. I have a Mac and my monitor was definitely marketed as a TV and all
I do is just turn the volume down on the TV remote and don't have issues
with the Mac not honoring where its audio output is. So there is
obviously something different between our two setups. It does like you
say not have the ability to control volume which I don't understand
because my chromecast can do that and its only cable is HDMI so
obviously the Mac can too.
All attempts to get this less stupid result in Apple pointing at the
HDMI spec and saying that if a device advertises audio capabilites
they list it as an output device, and Dell pointing out that they
simply advirtise the fact that the device has a speaker, and, well,
shrug, not thier issue if things try and use it.
I can understand why they have speakers and all of that even if it's
just a monitor because it's probably cheaper to just have one model to
manufacture and just rebrand it. There was some device -- gad I want to
think it was an old DEC terminal server -- that just filled in the
serial ports with glue or something so that you couldn't use them. That
was pretty shameless.
Mike