Comments on: AppleTV in da house

By: Lasse Elden

Lasse Elden — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 21:24:04 +0000

Find iTunes very nice! Winamp did not worked out for me! Thx!

By: eirikso

eirikso — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:44:25 +0000

I would recommend iTunes or Juice. Or something from this list:
http://www.podcastingnews.com/topics/Podcast_Software.html

And for the podcasts from the NRK you only have 14 days of archive. Not good. We need to fix that.

By: Lasse Elden

Lasse Elden — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 22:36:29 +0000

So how do I get these podcast’s?
I have subscribed to “Kurer” and “Beatles” over at NRK, but they does not dowload by them selves. How do I do it? I use Winamp! Is it possible to download old podcasts. The Beatles podcast f.ex.???

By: Onno ter Wisscha

Onno ter Wisscha — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 08:54:18 +0000

Spend some extra money and buy a MacBook!
I just did last week and transplanted my corporate Windows laptop into this beautiful MacBook Pro.
Now I have in fact two laptops in one (using Parallels)
The corporate Windows laptop with Outlook, so I can still see who’s available for meetings.
The MacBook Pro wich I use for all the cool stuff like photo’s, movies, music, etc.

By: Lasse Elden

Lasse Elden — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:46:53 +0000

Me again!

What would you recommend? a laptop pc or a Mac? Think i’ll use it mostly for pictures, video-editing and web/mail. But this time more flexible in the living room for example!

Might want to use it for conecting to tv as well!

And in the light of HDTV av the “bakkenettet” in the furture here in Norway, what is your predictions on what hardware to use for HTPC? Thinking of tv-cards etc. Have Hauppauge 500 now on my desktop!

By: Lasse Elden

Lasse Elden — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 20:56:22 +0000

Since your are into Appel/Mac as well as photographing, then why not take a closer look at this:

Think it could be usefull if you do print your pictures!

By: Onno

Onno — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 20:50:53 +0000

I have the same FireDTV tuner. Two of them. Floppy version.
One of the main problems is that MCE needs completely different drivers than all the other software solutions.
Another is that MCE does not support the three high definition h.264 encoded channels on my cable.
Currently DVBViewer is the only software that handles this codec well.
Discovery HD in 1920×1080: Great picture!

Next step for me is to make the system dual boot, so I don’t have to uninstall and install different drivers all the time (MCE BDA )

Send me a private message if you have any specific questions.

By: Eirikso

Eirikso — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 07:26:58 +0000

I agree. If they add a TV-tuner to the AppleTV it will be in the form of a USB add on. And yes, the TV-tuner part is difficult to complete in a way that is user friendly because of all the different standards.

And, I am very interested in your progress on the DVB-C HTPC you have made.

I am currently running MCE with a FireDTV DVB-C tuner. Works quite well, but not perfect. With a couple of small hacks you can trick MCE into treating the DVB-C tuner like one of the DVB-T tuners that it actually supports.

By: Onno

Onno — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 10:04:25 +0000

I don’t think Apple will include a TV tuner inside their box.
There are just too many TV standards (PAL, NTSC, DVB-C, DVB-T, DVB-C)

Much more logical is the option to connect a separate tuner like Elgato’s EyeTV series.
Whose products work very nicely with the Mac Mini already.

Meanwhile, I’ll keep struggling to get a decent user experience on my dual-DVB-C tuner PC setup. Neither MCE (poor DVB-C support), MediaPortal (buggy, hard to configure), nor DVB-Viewer (good TV function, but not much more) is working very well.

By: Eirikso

Eirikso — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:05:58 +0000

I know. Haven't really posted anything about the AppleTV yet. I will give my thoughts on it when I've had the time to test it. Some quick answers:

So how does it realy work?

Mossberg on the AppleTV TUAW - AppleTV the first 24 hours Ars Technica - In depth review

Can you post some screenshots from different use and some comments along with them?

Engadget - Interface gallery

Whats the price and how have you contected it?

AppleTV - US Store AppleTV - Norway Store I have currently connected it through component to my LCD. Mainly because the DVI input is already taken by my Windows MCE box. The audio is connected to my amp through toslink (optical digital).

Have you considered other alternatives when it comes to functions as well as price?

No. This box is mandatory for a geek like me. :-)