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Eleventh hour rumors brew new details on Apple's tablet

by Aron Trimble (Jan 27th, 2010)

The tension is palpable as we all wait patiently for the start of Apple's event featuring "new stuff," and it seems that a little birdie has stuck his neck out and flown some forbidden images over to the crew at Engadget. What you see is a cell phone-sourced image of a prototype tablet which looks ...

TUAW Review: Kanex HDMI + audio adapter works fine but costs extra

by Michael Rose (Nov 4th, 2009)

When we first heard about the Kanex HDMI + digital audio converter a few weeks ago, I was eager to give it a trial run and see if it managed to deliver on the promise of integrated audio with HDMI video. I've been playing with the $70 unit for a few days now, and the answer is a qualified yes: it ...

Kanex brings digital audio into a Display Port to HDMI adapter

by Michael Rose (Oct 3rd, 2009)

When we published our "Ultimate Mac mini Home Theater" guide in August, I drooled along with everyone else at the idea of supercharging my HDTV with a mini for movie and music playback. Something nagged at me, though, as I looked over the options for going from the mini's video-out ports (the ...

Apple TV gains hard disk capacity, loses weighty price

by Steven Sande (Sep 14th, 2009)

Less than a week after the Apple TV was studiously ignored by Steve & Phil at the music event, a tipster has pointed us in the direction of the Apple online store where the device has suddenly gained some capacity and become less expensive. The original 40GB model has been dropped altogether, ...

Hands on: Connecting my mini to a TV

by Erica Sadun (Sep 1st, 2009)

We bought our Olevia 47" on Black Friday, 2007. It wasn't a particularly well rated TV. But it was a Black Friday deal that we could afford and it gave us far more screen space than we'd thought we'd be able to purchase. It has served us well through the years, hosting any number of gadgets with ...

Mac OS X, now HDTV-ready with 10.6

by Aron Trimble (Aug 31st, 2009)

Got a fancy new Mac with some flavor of DisplayPort connector and a shiny new copy of OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard installed? If you do and you also happen to hook said Mac up to an HDTV via an HDMI adapter, then head on over to System Preferences to check out the latest uncovered Snow Leopard nugget of ...

Behold! My Mac mini media center

by Robert Palmer (Jul 24th, 2009)

For those of you that haven't heard me tell the beginning of this story on the TUAW talkcast, you might recall that my dad the switcher upgraded his Mac mini to a sweet new Mac Pro. So what could I do with an extra Mac mini? Maybe a server? Maybe a doorstop? I know! A media center! I had cable ...

Sophos video shows Mac trojan caught in the act

by Michael Rose (Mar 26th, 2009)

Apple Mac malware: Caught on camera from Sophos Labs on Vimeo. It's not every day that you can watch Mac malware in action, but the team at Sophos Labs has put together the demonstration video above; it shows a malicious installer downloaded from a site pretending to serve up an HD video ...

Rumor Roundup: Apple-branded HDTVs, Blu-Ray, more NVIDIA

by Michael Rose (Oct 12th, 2008)

The rumor mill is heating up this weekend in advance of Tuesday's press event, and one left-field rumor is coming from a familiar, yet unlikely source: Weblogs Inc./Mahalo founder and TUAW godfather Jason Calacanis, who dropped a mild bombshell in an interview with a CNET.uk blogger on Friday (yo, ...

Rumor: iTunes 8 to include Genius recommender, grid view, new visualizer

by Mike Schramm (Sep 4th, 2008)

Kevin Rose is at it again, with a brand new round of rumors about iTunes 8, supposedly premiered next week at the big Apple iPod event. Did I miss the meeting where we all declared him king of iPod rumors? King or not, he's got what he claims is inside information, including a writeup about ...

Apple TV 'T2' HD video is pretty good, says iLounge

by Mat Lu (Feb 13th, 2008)

There's been some controversy about the HD video quality on the Apple TV, which we've covered before. Now that Take Two has dropped, iLounge has done the legwork to put together an excellent visual comparison. They compared four versions of Live Free and Die Hard: Blu-ray, Apple TV HD, Cable HD, and ...

Elgato EyeTV 250 Plus adds OTA HDTV

by Mat Lu (Aug 23rd, 2007)

We've covered the Elgato EyeTV 205 before, but now the Mac video peripherals company has pushed out a substantial revision, the EyeTV 250 Plus, which adds over-the-air HDTV capability. The Plus model is in many ways like the EyeTV Hybrid, and requires a beefy Dual G5 or Intel machine to decode the ...

Elgato brings EyeTV Support to HDHomeRun

by Mat Lu (Jul 24th, 2007)

We previously mentioned a hacked together, rudimentary Mac interface for the HDHomeRun and expressed hope for EyeTV support. Well, our wish has been granted as Elgato has announced the HDHomeRun for the Mac. The HDHomeRun is a nifty little device that features two over-the-air / Clear QAM HD tuners ...

Ask TUAW: time shift in iPhoto, HDTV to a Mac, backing up, and much more

by Mat Lu (Jun 20th, 2007)

Last week, Mike did a great job with Ask TUAW and we had a bumper crop of questions. We won't be able to get to all of them this week, but we'll be looking at a number of different issues including: shifting times in iPhoto, getting a Mac and HDTV to work well together, comparing the 24" iMac to the ...

Get the right HDTV for your Apple TV

by Scott McNulty (Mar 21st, 2007)

I tend to think of Apple TV as an accessory for your TV (though Apple is billing it as a 'DVD player for the 21st century'). Apple TV is designed to work with a widescreen HDTV (though it will work with a standard def TV). Since the world of HDTVs is scary and confusing to many people (including ...