I have been thinking about buying a G3 Powerbook on ebay with a dead display for use as an add-on to my home entertainment system. I haven't really thought it all the way through yet.
But heres what I want to do. Get old powerbook with dead display. Add a wireless card to it. Add that little infrared remote control thing I've seen advertised in the mac catalogs. I don?t remember what its called, or if it will do what I want. Use the svideo from the PBG3 and connect it to my tv, and the audio out to my stereo. I have half of my cds ripped to mp3 on a 20 gig drive in my office. Add a dvd player to the office computer and stream it all to the laptop. itunes for mp3s and I guess quick time for dvds (unless theres something else). Sound Possible? I am pretty sure that the itunes part will work since I can already do it on my iBook. The dvd part, I don?t know. I don?t have a dvd drive to test with. What do you guys think? Too much time on my hands or what? Brian O'Neal P.S Anybody out there with a G3powerbook with a broken screen you'd let go for cheap? On 12/30/02 2:55 PM, "Bill Rising" <brising at Louisville.edu> wrote: > Hey y'all! > > Has anyone rigged up a unit which would broadcast the audio out from the > Mac to another location in a house, either > > 1. Using an fm transmitter which could then be picked up by a radio > (hooked to a good stereo), or > 2. Using some sort of wireless mp3 decoder which could grab the files > from the computer over a wireless network, or > 3. Some other method? > > I poked around on the web a little, and it seems that there are folks who > have done #1, there are folks trying to design #2, but I didn't see any > #3's (probably because of the search criteria). > > I'd really like to use a machine in the basement to run the stereo > upstairs. Heck, with a radio transmitter, I could put together a cron job > which started up the same song every morning for the clock radio, kinda > like Rob Schneider in All That Jazz, though I suppose I'd skip the speed. > > Bill > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
