Bill, You can buy a G5 specific DVI to composite and S-Video Adapter for your PowerMac for $19 from the Apple Store or a dealer near you. But the one very negative review on the Apple Store site, a rarity for Apple to leave posted, says it doesn't work very well.
His review was posted only two days ago. I guess they didn't find it yet. "I purchased this item and the quality of the display is very poor. I at first assumed it was just my TV but after speaking with another person who has tried to do something similar on a PC, he seemed to feel that it was just not something that works right. A TV and Computer is just too different. I would like to experiment with it more but right now I would say not to bother with this. He had a new HDTV so resolution should not have been a problem on his TV. " So I guess you need a 30-Day return guarantee policy type of store like Fry's here in California to try and see how it looks. I have played to TV directly out of my 1.25 GHz Aluminum October '03 PowerBook's S-Video port very successfully. Picture looks great on Sony 27" XBR circa mid nineties from DivX recordings of HDTV shows - 350 MB per 43 minute episode played full screen with Video Lan Client. They appear widescreen letterbox in standard definition perfectly on this old classic. This was their last 27" XBR - pre-WEGA era. At that point, S-Video was state-of-the-art input. Last night in Cupertino at the MacFilmmakers meeting on the Apple campus, it was mentioned that we SHOULD be looking at a TV hooked up to our Macs to edit correctly due to SAFE ZONE and COLOR SATURATION considerations. Was told a setup for TV is in the FCP Manual. Do you have Final Cut Pro Bill? It's on Volume 1 p.54. You run FW to your camcorder then out analog to the TV and amplified sound system. Gotta go. More later if you don't have the docs. -- Taylor Barcroft http://www.blogger.com/profile/11159903 New Media Publisher, Editor, Video Journalist, Webcaster, Futurecaster Santa Cruz CA, Beach of the Silicon Valley URL http://FutureMedia.org RSS http://feeds.feedburner.com/FutureMedia iTunes http://tinyurl.com/8ql87 On Sep 22, 2005, at 8:49 AM, Bill Streeter wrote: > My G4 had an s-video out card and my new G5 doesn't, but even then > it was cumbersome. The closest I get now is playing it all full > screen on my computer while relaxing on my couch in my office. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
