On 4/21/05, Marta Edie <martaedie at mac.com> wrote: > John, I know much less than you , and yet have all these "crazy ideas" > - I had the same thoughts as I read the Access article. I did get this > new small TV and the Dish channel to get the German TV Channel. It is > a Philips, HDV ready, has this new wide screen, but can be set in three > ratios. - But here I come, are you listening, Lee? If I get a mac-mini > ( the TV screen is also a Computer monitor) and attach that, is it > possible to also play the TV picture on the monitor, when set into that > mode?
Nope. Assuming you have a TV/Video button that switches you between different modes, you'll have your TV on the first one and the Mac Mini on the second (or third etc etc). > so that I could make a DVD of certain programs( I would get the > mac-mini with a superdrive.) There's no TV input on the Mac Mini. However, there are USB TV inputs on the market. Unsure if any work with OS X. Mac people seem to like EyeTV: http://www.elgato.com/index.php?file=products_eyetvmain It would effectively be a replacement DVR box that works well with the Mac. No real clue about it, just seen it mentioned a fair number of times. > - Otherwise I would probably need a DVD > recorder . I do have a DVR box, but do not know whether I would be able > to play a TV recording on the screen set into the monitor mode. You > see, it gets more complicated all the time and yet - it is more > challenging, too. Yep. So many half-good solutions that have critical flaws. Network'd USB drives and a Mac Mini that's attached to the TV and has a Superdrive is my simple plan. If it all fails, the only useless piece I'll be left with is the Hauppage TV Input card in the basement. All the rest are useful little tools. Colleagues at work have the D-Link media player and are very impressed. It's cheap but claims to only be for Win XP/2000. Given that the computer it links to just needs to run a UPNP server (erm, Microsoft alternative to Rendezvous/Bonjour) it's somewhat possible that there is one of those for the Mac. Hen | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be April 26. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
