MacDevCenter: HDTV your Mac

HDTV from the back MacDevCenter has posted a new how-to by Eric Sadun, covering how to get HDTV going on your Mac, called HDTV on Your Mac: ”Even though the Mac is a little late to the HDTV party, you can roll your own setup for not too much time or money. Erica Sadun shows you how.”

After reading over the article, I’m sure of one thing: it’s going to cost lots of money. My 2 cents: I know Steve Jobs is saying it’s the year of HD, but there seems to be one fundamental problem, in my book, with HD on the Mac. HD is going to eat through any spare hard drive space like it is a light salad.

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MacDevCenter has posted a new how-to by Eric Sadun, covering how to get HDTV going on your Mac, called HDTV on Your Mac: ”Even...

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Thom Brooks

I also have a Sharp LCD TV, and an EyeTV 500, but am using it with a Mac mini (and a 400GB external to store recorded programs.) There are issues with video signals, digital audio output, chaining firewire devices... working through everything but it's been a process. Check out the AVS Forum on Mac HTPC stuff for more info: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=115

March 31 2005 at 10:58 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Fazal Majid

Unfortunately, hooking up my Sharp LCD TV to the second DVI port on my dual G5 (with a stock nVidia GeForce 5200) caused my Mac to panic at least once a day, so I have given up watching programs I record on my Elgato EyeTV 500 on a TV as opposed to the Mac's monitor. Viewing 1080i video eats up 65% CPU on both 2GHz CPUs anyway. Hopefully the codecs in Tiger will be less inefficient.

March 30 2005 at 11:59 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jason

But I'm wondering if the addition of H264 into Tiger will allow Apple to somehow re-encode the HD data into this new format, which may save some disk space. With the recent rumors of Apple launching some HD network this could be a way of launching H264 into the masses and thus making storage of the media easier.

March 30 2005 at 3:36 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

sam

Isn't core image supposed enable scalability from cell phones to HDTVs?

March 30 2005 at 2:22 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply