Hen, thanks, what you say concurrs exactly with my thoughts on how this would have to work. My big problem is that I only have these ideas intellectually, but have no practical knowledge as to what tools you neeed to bring about what you are planning. I already get lost when I have to figure out drivers and connections and have hardly any idea when I look at a plug, what type it is and how it affects the connections. However, my constant listening to the group's elaberations has brought me insights i never dreamt of. thanks. Marta On Apr 22, 2005, at 2:17, Henri Yandell wrote:
> 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> | 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>
