I severely want to see Apple produce a mac mini with enhanced A/V features. Specifically, I want optical digital audio output! I don’t want to have to hook up a ton of adapters and connectors to be able to use a mac mini with my home entertainment system. I have the capability to host hundreds of gigs of media files on my desktop and stream them to a mini to watch on my tv - if only they made a mini that had the right connections!
Enhanced A/V Mac mini
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Posted: 16 September 2005 10:04 AM
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Posted: 16 September 2005 01:07 PM
I’m using my mini as a media center for my home starting w/AirTunes. It is really tight inside the mini, not sure how much real estate optical audio would need, however, the external HD/hubs (ministack, etc) have real poetntial. I currently have the LaCie mini 250GB HD. Even if an external A/V mini “component expander” would be a possibility, I’d be game for that. I remember the Quadra A/V boxes back in the day made a difference for the overall capabilities of the system. |
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Posted: 25 September 2005 04:37 PM
it would be great to get a video-in adaptor to the mini. i would use it as a digital video recorder or as a media center. maybe i’d add it a mini stack for more video space. Is there the possibility to get a video-in adaptor for the mini? |
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Posted: 26 September 2005 01:22 PM
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Posted: 26 September 2005 01:31 PM
thank you very much mr MacNuggets for the link, was much appreciated. |
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Posted: 26 September 2005 02:14 PM
Cheers dk. I know Elgato makes tv tuners for Macs. http://www.elgato.com/index.php?file=products_eyetv200 That link makes me very hopeful for the future of the mini. |
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Posted: 27 September 2005 04:06 PM
I would like to see an option for a mac htpc build. It really wouldn’t be much of a stretch. Maybe less like a PC and more like a server with a remote control. M Serve anyone? One machine for all your Home theater needs , as well as, options for serving your home network. Extra space for hard drives, print serving, etc… Just a thought. |
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Posted: 27 September 2005 04:14 PM
THANX and veeeeery good link! . . now, all i have to do is to get the mac mini, it’ll rock as a media center. the thing here is that the mini plus the ministack plus the eyetv200 would make lots of devices. isnt there any internal video in adaptor for the mini??? |
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Posted: 28 September 2005 04:38 PM
well. my mistake. the only option for video in is an outside device. i was thinking abt a PowerMac. there is not shuch thing as an internal video in adaptor for the mac. |
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Posted: 28 September 2005 05:51 PM
None that I know of dk. |
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Posted: 29 September 2005 08:20 PM
ohh i c, thanx anyway. external is not that bad though |
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Posted: 30 September 2005 05:48 PM
interesting, but the mini can’t handle HD content, particularly the vaunted h.264 standard. they could do less than HD, maybe a 480 standard,but 720 and 1080 are a stretch. then again, if they had different releases for different stanadrds of systems,it might work. |
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Posted: 01 October 2005 04:15 PM
i would leave the mini the way it is and use it as a home stereo. |
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Posted: 24 October 2005 08:09 AM
What about an integrated 5.1 bluetooth hub? Maybe Apple should be (might be) working on wifi surround technology… |
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