MythTV already runs on Mac OS X
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JonTurner
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· Score: 5, Informative
The Myth front-end (the part used for viewing) already runs on the Mac. It's the back-end, the part with encodes video streams, that is not yet ported.
Mini-mac PVR
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dvdungeon
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· Score: 5, Informative
I'm already using my mini-mac as a pvr. Mini-mac, plus eyeTV (via firewire) plus 21" lcd = pvr. It does recording, live pause thingy, editing, plays dvds and music. I use an external 160 usb drive for recording, and can archive to dvd. The eyetv software gets listings from the internet.
Not bad for a quite little box.
Matt
-- oops...
Re:Name sounds familiar
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ergo98
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· Score: 4, Informative
Uh...Tiger?
Tiger's real code-name was Slate. Apple was playing a bit of a game, and choosing actual retail names that they publicly disseminated as "code names". Of course they could be doing it with this product, but the instant hit on a competing product proves that close to impossible.
Kaleidoscope
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derniers
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· Score: 5, Informative
way back when Kaleidoscope was a nifty UI app for OS 9 and the guy who wrote it (Greg Landweber) went to work for Apple
Price cut?
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HappyCakeOven
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· Score: 2, Informative
As it stand now the base cost for a Mac mini is $499. Seems a little expensiveif you're only using it for a DVR considering replayTV starts at $179 and TiVo at $199 ($79 and $49 with instant rebates).
-- It makes real cupcakes, with a 40 watt bulb, and there's icing packets....but the secret ingredient is love.
In the meantime...
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sootman
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· Score: 3, Informative
...I'm a huge fan of MediaCentral. It does just a few things and does them very well. Amazing that it's just a 0.1 release, unlike CenterStage, which--as neat as it will surely be, someday--has been in development since February and is currently at a semi-functional 0.4. It's also very simple to use. Key features: - plays movies - plays DVDs - plays DVDs ripped to a VIDEO_TS folder and the parent folder name is what shows up in the menu It also works with EyeTV products, but I don't have or care about that--being a happy DirecTiVo owner, I was just looking for something that does everything the TiVo doesn't. Works with some ATI remotes, according to the site, and it also works with my $30 Keyspan DMR remote control. Just set '*" to be 'quit' and 'stop' to be 'eject' (in addition to the regular keys--left, right, up, down, enter=middle, space=play/pause, escape=menu) and you're in business. Runs fine on my base (1.25 GHz, 256 MB) Mini.
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Kaleidoscope "skins" were unreal -- take a look
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ianscot
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· Score: 5, Informative
Greg Landweber ascended to the mother ship? Decent example of Apple taking on someone whose main product Jobs didn't really agree with. Steve-o has never much liked the custom "skins" idea, and basically killed it with OS X.
For those who aren't familiar, the old Kaleidoscope gave you the ability to drop "skins" over the OS 9 finder and OS, to the point where you could go with a complete BeOS or any number of completely outlandish looks and feels.
Half of the results weren't amazingly useful, exactly, but it was so easy to develop a new scheme that you could easily tinker around and produce yout own flavor. The archive of schemes pretty much says it all.
-- "Fundamentalism" isn't about divine morality. It's about human authority.
Re:Why build when...
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renderhead
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· Score: 4, Informative
TiVo negotiated nothing. They're just incorporating the technology to automatically convert the video they record into a format that the iPod supports (which is completely open - simply MPEG-4 video that fits within certain dimensions). A nice feature, but they didn't require or receive Apple's cooperation.
-- I wish that my inferiority complex were as good as yours.
-RenderHead
Re:Name sounds familiar
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bhtooefr
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· Score: 2, Informative
Lisa?
That was a code name, IIRC. They ended up reverse acronym-izing it, but it certainly didn't begin life as a real name...
This is interesting...
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Fahrvergnuugen
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· Score: 4, Informative
There is software available as part of the Apple FireWire SDK that lets you record MPEG2 streams direct from a firewire enabled cable box. Hmmm....
Re:Plus an iPod dock
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Jeff+DeMaagd
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· Score: 4, Informative
I thought the conclusion for those solder points was that it couldn't be for a dock because the number and spacing of pins was wrong.
Re:The famous butt-head astronomer
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frankie
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· Score: 2, Informative
In partial defense of Carl, let the record show that Apple was designing three PowerMacs right then:
PM 6100: codename Piltdown Man, famous archaeology hoax
PM 7100: codename Sagan
PM 8100: codename Cold Fusion, overhyped physics flop du jour
In his place, I'd also be unhappy about the implication of being placed in between those two.
Re:Name sounds familiar
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Rosyna
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· Score: 3, Informative
Slate? Where did you get slate from? Tiger's codename was "Merlot", named after the wine. In the pre-Jobs days around the time when System X.X was renamed to Mac OS X.X, all versions of Mac OS had musical related codenames (or were somehow linked to Gil "Buster" Amelio). After Jobs, all OS X code names (at least since the cat names were used in marketing) were/are Wines.
And just in case you don't have an ADC account, here is the relevant section:
typedef enum {
CFSystemVersionCheetah = 0,/* 10.0 */
CFSystemVersionPuma = 1,/* 10.1 */
CFSystemVersionJaguar = 2,/* 10.2 */
CFSystemVersionPanther = 3,/* 10.3 */
CFSystemVersionPinot = 3,/* Deprecated name for Panther */
CFSystemVersionTiger = 4,/* 10.4 */
CFSystemVersionMerlot = 4,/* Deprecated name for Tiger */
CFSystemVersionChablis = 5,/* Post-Tiger */
CFSystemVersionMax/* This should bump up when new entries are added */ } CFSystemVersion;
Re:Disappointed by Mac Mini as entertainment cente
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ElectroBot
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· Score: 5, Informative
Audio -- the only decent 5.1 audio solutions for the Mini are USB or Firewire hardware from M-Audio. The cheapest one I could find that does proper AC3 passthrough was something like $80-$100, and it was just some cheezy little USB thing!
Last year I bought myself a Creative Soundblaster MP3+ (paid around $42 US then, its $36 now with FREE ship). The device works great with my iBook G4 and provides me with 1/8", 2 RCA, and OPTICAL inputs and outputs. When connected to the iBook it doesn't require any drivers and all the outputs are recognized under Mac OS X 10.3 and 10.4.
Weak article, all speculation.
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tji
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· Score: 3, Informative
We all know how reliable Think Secret is with there "inside info". This looks like another case of ass-talking.
Some of their quotes from this article just seemed silly.. "It is similarly unknown whether Apple will scrap the 2.5-inch hard drive currently featured in the Mac mini in favor a standard 3.5-inch hard drive". WTF? Have they seen a Mac Mini? A 3.5" drive would require a completely new, much larger, case. Also, 3.5" drives account for 10W+ more power/heat, which is a no-go in the tiny confines of the Mac Mini.
Ever since the x86 announcement, people have been speculating that the Mini would be one of the first to go Intel. I don't see this.. Even the Pentium-M processors can't go as low in power/heat as the PowerPC G4's. The extremely small space of the Mini tells me that it would be the last to go x86, not the first.
Re:sorry guys...
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dancpsu
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· Score: 2, Informative
In a lot of areas, all it takes is a cheap roof antenna or even rabbit ears to bring in perfect HD, so why pay for cable, anyway?
I know quite a few families who have cable only because over the air reception is fuzzy for the local stations. When I tell them that they can get a $200 box at wal-mart that gets crystal clear over the air stations, plus up to 3 extra channels per station built into the signal, they can't believe it. I'm really surprised that there are no commercials on the regular stations for ATSC set-top boxes. The only thing I hear about is satellite and cable. In fact, most people who I talk to believe that HD is *only* available on cable and satellite. I suppose those companies like it that way.
-- "Scientists don't change their minds, they just die."
-- Max Planck
Re:In other news...
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Smurf
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· Score: 2, Informative
Dear Anonymous Troll,
Apparently your bigotry doesn't allow you to educate yourself before writing stupid trash. Otherwise, you would know that the DRM in Apple's AAC files (or most any other DRM scheme, for that matter) will NOT prevent you from BACKING UP your files.
Yes, dear Troll, you can still burn the files on CDs/DVDs or copy them to as many computers as you want. If one of the computers registered to PLAY the music dies, you can still register another one (and Apple will allow you to unregister the corpse).
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The Myth front-end (the part used for viewing) already runs on the Mac. It's the back-end, the part with encodes video streams, that is not yet ported.
http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/MythOnMacOsx
When's the last time a code name was also used for the retail product? I can't remember that ever happening.
Uh...Tiger?
I'm already using my mini-mac as a pvr. Mini-mac, plus eyeTV (via firewire) plus 21" lcd = pvr. It does recording, live pause thingy, editing, plays dvds and music. I use an external 160 usb drive for recording, and can archive to dvd. The eyetv software gets listings from the internet. Not bad for a quite little box. Matt
oops...
Uh...Tiger?
Tiger's real code-name was Slate. Apple was playing a bit of a game, and choosing actual retail names that they publicly disseminated as "code names". Of course they could be doing it with this product, but the instant hit on a competing product proves that close to impossible.
way back when Kaleidoscope was a nifty UI app for OS 9 and the guy who wrote it (Greg Landweber) went to work for Apple
As it stand now the base cost for a Mac mini is $499. Seems a little expensiveif you're only using it for a DVR considering replayTV starts at $179 and TiVo at $199 ($79 and $49 with instant rebates).
It makes real cupcakes, with a 40 watt bulb, and there's icing packets....but the secret ingredient is love.
...I'm a huge fan of MediaCentral. It does just a few things and does them very well. Amazing that it's just a 0.1 release, unlike CenterStage, which--as neat as it will surely be, someday--has been in development since February and is currently at a semi-functional 0.4. It's also very simple to use. Key features:
- plays movies
- plays DVDs
- plays DVDs ripped to a VIDEO_TS folder and the parent folder name is what shows up in the menu
It also works with EyeTV products, but I don't have or care about that--being a happy DirecTiVo owner, I was just looking for something that does everything the TiVo doesn't. Works with some ATI remotes, according to the site, and it also works with my $30 Keyspan DMR remote control. Just set '*" to be 'quit' and 'stop' to be 'eject' (in addition to the regular keys--left, right, up, down, enter=middle, space=play/pause, escape=menu) and you're in business. Runs fine on my base (1.25 GHz, 256 MB) Mini.
Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
For those who aren't familiar, the old Kaleidoscope gave you the ability to drop "skins" over the OS 9 finder and OS, to the point where you could go with a complete BeOS or any number of completely outlandish looks and feels.
Half of the results weren't amazingly useful, exactly, but it was so easy to develop a new scheme that you could easily tinker around and produce yout own flavor. The archive of schemes pretty much says it all.
"Fundamentalism" isn't about divine morality. It's about human authority.
TiVo negotiated nothing. They're just incorporating the technology to automatically convert the video they record into a format that the iPod supports (which is completely open - simply MPEG-4 video that fits within certain dimensions). A nice feature, but they didn't require or receive Apple's cooperation.
I wish that my inferiority complex were as good as yours.
-RenderHead
Lisa?
That was a code name, IIRC. They ended up reverse acronym-izing it, but it certainly didn't begin life as a real name...
There is software available as part of the Apple FireWire SDK that lets you record MPEG2 streams direct from a firewire enabled cable box. Hmmm....
Check here, here and here: [use this link: http://machdtvtimer.home.comcast.net/%5D for more info.
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I thought the conclusion for those solder points was that it couldn't be for a dock because the number and spacing of pins was wrong.
In his place, I'd also be unhappy about the implication of being placed in between those two.
Slate? Where did you get slate from? Tiger's codename was "Merlot", named after the wine. In the pre-Jobs days around the time when System X.X was renamed to Mac OS X.X, all versions of Mac OS had musical related codenames (or were somehow linked to Gil "Buster" Amelio). After Jobs, all OS X code names (at least since the cat names were used in marketing) were/are Wines.
. 3/CF-368.18/Base.subproj/CFUtilities.h and search for "Merlot". It also has the codenames for Panther (Pinot) and, presumably, Leopard (Chablis).
/* 10.0 */ /* 10.1 */ /* 10.2 */ /* 10.3 */ /* Deprecated name for Panther */ /* 10.4 */ /* Deprecated name for Tiger */ /* Post-Tiger */ /* This should bump up when new entries are added */
Since I am so freakin' awesome, I've gone ahead and found evidence to support what I say. See http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.4
And just in case you don't have an ADC account, here is the relevant section:
typedef enum {
CFSystemVersionCheetah = 0,
CFSystemVersionPuma = 1,
CFSystemVersionJaguar = 2,
CFSystemVersionPanther = 3,
CFSystemVersionPinot = 3,
CFSystemVersionTiger = 4,
CFSystemVersionMerlot = 4,
CFSystemVersionChablis = 5,
CFSystemVersionMax
} CFSystemVersion;
Audio -- the only decent 5.1 audio solutions for the Mini are USB or Firewire hardware from M-Audio. The cheapest one I could find that does proper AC3 passthrough was something like $80-$100, and it was just some cheezy little USB thing!
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Last year I bought myself a Creative Soundblaster MP3+ (paid around $42 US then, its $36 now with FREE ship). The device works great with my iBook G4 and provides me with 1/8", 2 RCA, and OPTICAL inputs and outputs. When connected to the iBook it doesn't require any drivers and all the outputs are recognized under Mac OS X 10.3 and 10.4.
Here's the link to the Creative Sounblaster MP3+ on Amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000095IMS/102-1
We all know how reliable Think Secret is with there "inside info". This looks like another case of ass-talking.
Some of their quotes from this article just seemed silly.. "It is similarly unknown whether Apple will scrap the 2.5-inch hard drive currently featured in the Mac mini in favor a standard 3.5-inch hard drive". WTF? Have they seen a Mac Mini? A 3.5" drive would require a completely new, much larger, case. Also, 3.5" drives account for 10W+ more power/heat, which is a no-go in the tiny confines of the Mac Mini.
Ever since the x86 announcement, people have been speculating that the Mini would be one of the first to go Intel. I don't see this.. Even the Pentium-M processors can't go as low in power/heat as the PowerPC G4's. The extremely small space of the Mini tells me that it would be the last to go x86, not the first.
In a lot of areas, all it takes is a cheap roof antenna or even rabbit ears to bring in perfect HD, so why pay for cable, anyway?
I know quite a few families who have cable only because over the air reception is fuzzy for the local stations. When I tell them that they can get a $200 box at wal-mart that gets crystal clear over the air stations, plus up to 3 extra channels per station built into the signal, they can't believe it. I'm really surprised that there are no commercials on the regular stations for ATSC set-top boxes. The only thing I hear about is satellite and cable. In fact, most people who I talk to believe that HD is *only* available on cable and satellite. I suppose those companies like it that way.
"Scientists don't change their minds, they just die." -- Max Planck
Dear Anonymous Troll,
Apparently your bigotry doesn't allow you to educate yourself before writing stupid trash. Otherwise, you would know that the DRM in Apple's AAC files (or most any other DRM scheme, for that matter) will NOT prevent you from BACKING UP your files.
Yes, dear Troll, you can still burn the files on CDs/DVDs or copy them to as many computers as you want. If one of the computers registered to PLAY the music dies, you can still register another one (and Apple will allow you to unregister the corpse).