TV on Pearl. HDMI or component input?

[gadgetfreak]

Hi, wondering if the Pearl had flat screen TV's that have HDMI Inputs?

 

I'm staying in the 2 bedroom suite in the Haven. With kids, so in the few downtime moments, would love to plug in my ipad & watch on the larger screen. Or bring DVD's if they have a dvd player in the room. Although I've found if they have a dvd player, you can usually swap that HDMI out, even if on the remote you can't switch inputs.

 

thanks!

[B6ConMe]

Hi, wondering if the Pearl had flat screen TV's that have HDMI Inputs?

 

I'm staying in the 2 bedroom suite in the Haven. With kids, so in the few downtime moments, would love to plug in my ipad & watch on the larger screen. Or bring DVD's if they have a dvd player in the room. Although I've found if they have a dvd player, you can usually swap that HDMI out, even if on the remote you can't switch inputs.

 

thanks!

 

 

All the suites on the Pearl, and I think all other NCL ships as well, do have DVD players and a selection of DVD's, though not sure about the kids programs.

 

Can't answer for swapping out the HDMI, sorry.

[rajones007]

In the 2br suite on the Star and the DOS w/2 balconys on the Dawn, the DVD player used component connections.

 

And the only HDMI port on the TV was blocked. There was no way to select it.

 

Ticked me off. On my last cruise I purposely ripped, converted, and saved 32gb of my own movies and put them on a micro-sd card in my tablet and bought a micro-usb>hdmi adapter solely for that purpose. And couldn't do a damn thing.

[gadgetfreak]

In the 2br suite on the Star and the DOS w/2 balconys on the Dawn, the DVD player used component connections.

 

And the only HDMI port on the TV was blocked. There was no way to select it.

 

Ticked me off. On my last cruise I purposely ripped, converted, and saved 32gb of my own movies and put them on a micro-sd card in my tablet and bought a micro-usb>hdmi adapter solely for that purpose. And couldn't do a damn thing.

 

this is very helpful!

I actually have an ipad to component video plug, do you think I could unplug the dvd player & it'll work?

 

I might just burn a few movies for the kids on dvd if that doesn't work.

[rajones007]

Actually, I should have said COMPOSITE. Not component.

 

Sorry, I get them mixed up. Red and white for audio, and yellow for video is what was behind our TVs on the Star and Dawn.

 

If you have some sort of adapter for that, then I see no reason why you can't just unplug the DVD player and play through that.

 

Keep in mind that sometimes the DVD player is built-into the TV. In MY experience on 3 different NCL ships (see my signature, I guess), the living room TV is always one of those TV-DVD combo's. The master-bedroom always has a separate DVD player though.

 

For peace of mind, you might consider watching some videos and doing some thorough searching online in the hopes that somebody else took photos of the TV in the Haven on the Pearl.

[bguppies]

DVD players were built into all the TVs in the suites on the Dawn,(at least the 3 tvs in suites on deck 12 and all 6 tvs in the Garden Villa) so there was no cable to unplug and switch, even if you wanted to...

 

Good luck to you though.

 

Brother had a bunch of various connectors for his ipad and none of them worked, as neither the input selector on the remote, or tvs worked except to switch from TV to DVD and back. (and again, the DVD was built in)

 

Maybe you'll get lucky and the Pearl is different.

[gadgetfreak]

DVD players were built into all the TVs in the suites on the Dawn,(at least the 3 tvs in suites on deck 12 and all 6 tvs in the Garden Villa) so there was no cable to unplug and switch, even if you wanted to...

 

Good luck to you though.

 

Brother had a bunch of various connectors for his ipad and none of them worked, as neither the input selector on the remote, or tvs worked except to switch from TV to DVD and back. (and again, the DVD was built in)

 

Maybe you'll get lucky and the Pearl is different.

 

 

thanks. looks like i'll burn some dvd's. & bring the ipad w/ connectors just in case.