AV: HDTV
My roommate has an RCA Scenium rear projection HDTV with a DVI port. I bought a DVI cable from BestBuy for $50 (which I think is way too much since you can get them for $15 online) and hooked up the mini. The picture is fantastic. I couldn't believe the quality of the playback of downloaded TV shows. I had a ton of different resolutions available including 720p and 1080i. I found 720p was the best overall. The only downside is the overscan area is quite large so it's hard to use OS X.
posted by Jason Sares @ 2/21/2005 09:33:00 AM
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6 Comments:
Great! can you post any pictures and screenshots please?
Thanks
Please forgive my ignorance but how did you "download" TV shows.
I am a regular blog reader or yours, have a mac mini on order and hope to learn a lot from your blog.
Thank you.
I'll post some pics today.
I use Azureus with the RSS plugin. I can write a HowTo if you'd like.
I look forward to seeing the pics Jason. I already have a Mini and have been evaluating which big screen HDTV to purchase. The RCA DLP you mentioned was one choice the other was Sony's LCD, the Grand WEGA KDF-42WE655. I'm still undecided. I really did not understand the overscan issue making it difficult to use OSX. SwitchresX allows you to enable or disable overscan if it is what I think it is.
Yes, please write a "how to" article for "downloading" TV shows.
I am new to the Mac Mini. Been using mine for about two weeks and just love it.
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