Well, using a Mac on your TV is just like using it with a monitor. You
can have it setup so DVD Player automatically launches when you insert a
DVD, or iTunes automatically launches when you insert a music CD. And
Im sure you can buy a remote that communicates to a USB antenna. Also
you can change the size of your icons system wide, so that they look
best on the TV. You can also gain additional menus with 3rd party
programs which Im sure some are free, which you can add whatever files
and folders you like.
As far as a connection, if you have a video card with S Vido out you
could use that (youd need an inexpensive adaptor if your TV only has RCA
connections). Or, if you have a video card with dual VGA outputs or a
VGA and ADC or DVI, you could adapt any of those to work with the TV. I
believe those adaptors are more expensive though (probably less than $20).
Chris P
Mike Kauspedas wrote on 10/8/05, 1:56 PM:
> >Perhaps if you define what a "media center style OS add-on" is we
> > could help.
>
> Well, I installed it on one of my lesser PC's to see what all the fuss
> was about. Basically you get a nice gui that looks good on TV, ie
> everything is blown up. Everything can be traversed with a remote if
> you ahve one, but a mouse and keyboard work fine. You can add folders
> containing media files and it puts them in a nice little menu. Then
> you jsut click on something to play it and it plays it on your TV. In
> high def if so equipped. It has a load of other features beyond that,
> but the main thing is the simplicity. It really a very much glorified
> Windows media player, but tweaked for a TV.
>
> So I was wondering if Apple had a nice simple way for me to hook a Mac
> up to a TV and watch cable, movies, DVD's, downloaded TV shows, music,
> etc all off the Mac with a centralized application that held a library
> of all my media.
>
> Yes I could hook a Mac up to a TV and play movies and such, but do
> they have an app that makes it simple?
>
> That's all I'm asking. Thanks for the info!
>
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