HDTV on Your Mac by Erica Sadun, author of Modding Mac OS X 03/29/2005
So the other night, I popped over to Target to pick up an antenna. You remember what those are, don't you? Those telescoping metallic things that connect to television sets? That predate cable? Rabbit ears? I was about to buy my first antenna in, what, something like 20 years? I am such a cable-generation baby. I felt I was walking into a time warp (and not the good Rocky Horror kind, either) until I walked into the actual aisle. It was the packaging that hit me first. Target had about a dozen or so antennas on sale, and every single one (and let me repeat that, just to be emphatic, Every Single One) had an HDTV digital-ready sticker on it. I hadn't walked back into the past--I had just entered the present. This was the world of "Terrestrial HDTV": high-definition television broadcast over the airways. The GE "Futura" unit I picked up (got to laugh at the name, but it was only ten bucks) proclaimed that it was "designed to receive the highest quality broadcast HDTV signal." You've just got to love that. As a platform, Macintosh is a little late to the HDTV party. PC solutions (both Windows and Linux) are more abundant and better supported, but who wants to use a PC unless you have to? Sticking with Mac, you can either fork over the medium-to-big bucks to buy a turn-key solution, like ElGato's EyeTV 500 ($350 USD), or you can try to put together your own system using a decoder card, an antenna, some freeware software and a lot of love, elbow grease, and spit. Naturally, I chose the latter. ... http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/03/29/hdtv.html Reply with a "Thank you" if you liked this post. _______________________________________________ MEDIANEWS mailing list medianews@twiar.org To unsubscribe send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
