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So a digital TV can tune in a analog TV signal? Nope! Just like an analog TV can’t turn in a digital TV signal directly (you need a external digital tuner) Display technology has not stood still either! The older Unibody systems use LVDS signaling, the first generations of retina systems used eDP and the 2015 uses iDP! All use a similar connector on the logic board so you can’t assume just because they look alike one will work with the other. Just like water pipes gas pipes and even sewer pipes! Are all pipes so you could mix and match them right? I hope you don’t try! So you are stuck! You need an iDP display the older eDP or even older LVDS displays won’t work. You need this part: 13” MacBook Pro Retina (Early 2015) Display Assembly Apple P/N 661-02360 Sorry, your only other option is too use an external display until you can get your system fixed. As far as the worth of the system, people are still holding onto there older systems tightly! The 2016 and newer MacBook Pro’s dropped interfaces people need (without using a dongle) and the butterfly keyboards where junk! While the new 16” and now the new 13” have gone back to the better scissor keyboard, they still haven’t over come the lack of ports and the newer systems run much hotter! I have two 2015 15” systems which I will hang onto a few more years. I would recommend you think through the cost factors as well as the fact Apple is about to jump to their own silicon dropping Intel. I would hold pat until the dust settles at least a few more years.
