Who needs a TV when you have a Mac?

Well I did it. I had not owned a TV for years, but before the Soccer World Championship in Germany (which is where I live), I got my 17' iMac a Miglia TV Mini. Since terrestric TV in Berlin is digital and my desk is sitting nicely at between my bed and sofa, I'm in happy TV land now. The EyeTV software is good as a hard disk recorder and even integrates ok-ish with Front Row and the Apple Remote. And... I do prefer to watch my favourite series (Greys Anatomy, The Shield etc) fresh and in English, not a year later and dubbed German, so there's really much fun to be had with a good BitTorrent client. To get it all in Front Row, I had to search for codecs for a while, but my QT is doing all .avis I came across. (VLC is great but I love the remote control and Front Row).

We just decided not to buy a new TV when we move to the new house in a couple of months. Instead we're gonna buy a 30" cinema display and hook a core duo mini to it, along with at least 1.5 - 2 TB drive space, an elgato tuner and a 5.1 or 7.1 system - when you buy a house there just has to be a couple bucks left for a proper multimedia system, right? ;)

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Since I have a MythTV setup, I can run MythFrontend on my Powerbook or iMac and stream the TV signal across my wireless network. I have a 32" television, but I watch far more tv on my Macs.

I sold my TV, xbox,ps and everything else. I bought an intel 20" imac and plopped it down in the center of the coffee table. I keep an external HD hooked up with tons of movies and shorts on it. My music gets played through my airport o my stereo, so thats my music manager. With front row I use the imac as a media center, and if there are guest, I've hooked the imac up to y projector and hardwired it to the stereo, now anybody can watch the same content I am. Its not bad. I think I'll go get the eyetv hybrid and see what how that works.

I picked up a 500gb "myBook" external drive and tried saving off several of my DVD files. I was concerned since this was only a USB 2.0 device (newer ones have Firewire, but I got the last of the USB only at a $179 clearance price), it might not have the throughput for good video. But so far, everything looks great.

I'm planning on emptying my closet of DVDs and sticking a hundred or so on that drive.

I download TV episodes from torrents and watch them on an iMac. I use azureus running on a server that just downloads the episodes as they come on (from www.tvrss.net). Easy! The only issue is I horde them, so get though quite a few hard disks :(

TV is lame. Read more books.

I abandoned my TV for several months favoring my Mac. I don't watch TV on TV, anyhow - the few shows I watch are torrented. I don't watch as many movies as I once did, and ripping them is so easy, I see no reason not to employ FrontRow and iTunes for pretty much everything.

i use my mac for everthing. i watch 4 shows, all on the mac. my music is on my mac and my ipod. im all set with my mac!

eyeTV, miglia doodah, cytv server, sorted!