Re: Watching digital TV via Mac
- From: U n d e r a c h i e v e r <takeme2your@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 09:09:26 +0000
On 14/11/05 6:51 pm, in article
1131994261.003062.288430@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Adam B"
<adamjamesbromley@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Does anyone have experience of replacing their main TV with a Mac based
> system. Currently got a 28 inch widescreen TV, DVD player and VHS.
> Would like to scrap VHS and think about watching TV via Mac Mini, maybe
> using that Egato system which records the Freeview signal.
We do this at the moment: Elgato EyeTV -> G4 -> Cinema Display
Picture quality is better than our previous dedicated freeview box (an early
Nokia).
> My question is really are the compatbility issues with the actual TV -
> am I going to have replace it with something that can take DVI input
> from the Mac (I've seen various TV computer monitor combis that seem
We had a TV for a while that did DVI and RGB as well as SCART. Very handy
for this kind of thing. But the picture quality was poor, as it often is
with low-cost LCDs -- it ended up going back to the shop. The Cinema Display
is *much* better.
> to offer this). Or is there a converter that means I could do this
> without having to replace the widescreen TV. It's just a regular Sony
> that takes standard analogue inputs.
Not AFAIK. Nor are there any reasonably priced converters to go the other
way (RGB SCART -> DVI).
> Don't want to have to spend a fortune to get a big monitor, but would
> be good to get rid of the VHS for programme recording. Plus I could
> then network the Mac Mini with my main computer.
You don't know how much you want this set up until you've paused live TV,
made dinner, come back, and watched that programme you wanted to see, whilst
being able to skip the ads. It changes what you watch and how you watch.
Problems are for us the Cinema Display doesn't do SCART so our existing VCR
and DVD player are useless. We also can't watch one channel while recording
another (but we can watch a pre-recording whilst recording something else,
which you can't do with a VCR).
Do this; you will not regret it.
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