On Apr 21, 2005, at 9:36 PM, John Robinson was mythtified: > "Mythers had the front end running on the Mac mini, and by most > accounts, it makes a fine front end machine, as long as you don't > expect it to drive a high definition television". > > I will be using High Def. sets in the home, so what is the shortcoming > of the Mac Mini as to why it won't support such?
The hardware supports HDTV just fine. It's Apple that's standing in the way. In order to get all this software to work in HD, Apple would have to publish the interfaces for their video cards for the developers to use. This means the HD MPEG files have to be unscrambled by the G4 processor, and it doesn't have the horsepower. I suspect Apple is holding out because they have their own HD PVR software for the mini coming along and don't want the EyeTV to get there first. | 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>
