No.... VGA does not carry audio.

But you can get a specialty VGA with Stereo Audio cable made for connecting a PC to a TV: PCTVCables.com

Originally Posted by geraldz

No.... VGA does not carry audio.

But you can get a specialty VGA with Stereo Audio cable made for connecting a PC to a TV: PCTVCables.com

Again, VGA does not carry audio. Period.

Those cables merely include another separate cable for audio--no different than if you used a separate audio cable yourself except both cables are wrapped in one rubber shield.

It doesn't mean that you are carrying audio over VGA. It's still separate, unlike HDMI.




Michael

Originally Posted by Wakawaka

Why not just get apple tv? Or Sony network media center? Both $99

I wondered the same. I had planned to get the cable also but friends got an Apple TV as a gift and that convinced me the Apple TV was the better way to go. Very easy to set up and I now use the Ipad as the remote with a free app. You do need to buy an HDMI cable but bought the cheapest for $30 which works fine. The Apple TV gives you more options than just Netflix too. I'll admit I hadn't considerd the Apple TV because I don't think I knew Just exactly what it did LOL

Yeah, after all the cabling and then still ending up with an inferior streaming experience on an HDTV, AppleTV seems the best way to go.

I have an Apple TV 2 and feel the same way. For one thing all of the content in my iTunes libraries is accessible on it. My iPad only has a very small subset of that content. And if by chance there is something on my iPad that is not in iTunes I can use Airplay to get it on ATV anyway.

I would say the VGA cable might be nice for traveling, but I think I can manage to view on iPad itself in those situations.


Michael

Will the Apple TV appliance stream Netflix via my iPad?

Originally Posted by SeaRat

Will the Apple TV appliance stream Netflix via my iPad?

Yes, but that is kind of pointless as you can access Netflix directly with Apple TV. No need to stream from iPad.



Michael