Hi
I'm wanting to hook up my PC and MacBook Pro 2009 to one monitor and one set of speakers. On the monitor side I have two HDMI ports at the back so I'm going to plug in a second cable and connect it to the MacBook the monitor's OSD Menu let's me select between HDMI ports 1 and 2. The audio is where I get a little confused. At the moment my old Altec speakers are hooked up to my PC with a 3.5mm jack, I've read that splitters are a bad idea but that a switch box should be ok however I cannot find one?
After looking at the back of my Altec box which the speakers are hooked up to (is it called a subwoofer? I don't see any speakers on the big box) it has an SPDIF port so I was thinking of hooking up the MacBook to the speakers using 3.5mm jack and the PC using SPDIF since I have an SPDIF Out port on my motherboard but when I search Amazon for SPDIF cables they don't look like they would fit the port on my motherboard I have attached a picture of the speaker's ports and and the motherboard's I know I'm going wrong but I can't figure it out. Thanks
http://imgur.com/DlS1c4A
http://imgur.com/UP4Qo39
I'm wanting to hook up my PC and MacBook Pro 2009 to one monitor and one set of speakers. On the monitor side I have two HDMI ports at the back so I'm going to plug in a second cable and connect it to the MacBook the monitor's OSD Menu let's me select between HDMI ports 1 and 2. The audio is where I get a little confused. At the moment my old Altec speakers are hooked up to my PC with a 3.5mm jack, I've read that splitters are a bad idea but that a switch box should be ok however I cannot find one?
After looking at the back of my Altec box which the speakers are hooked up to (is it called a subwoofer? I don't see any speakers on the big box) it has an SPDIF port so I was thinking of hooking up the MacBook to the speakers using 3.5mm jack and the PC using SPDIF since I have an SPDIF Out port on my motherboard but when I search Amazon for SPDIF cables they don't look like they would fit the port on my motherboard I have attached a picture of the speaker's ports and and the motherboard's I know I'm going wrong but I can't figure it out. Thanks
http://imgur.com/DlS1c4A
http://imgur.com/UP4Qo39