Mac Mini DVI <-------> TV HDMI
TiVo HDMI <---------> TV HDMI (component will work OK too)
DVD Player ---------> Trash, and watch DVDs from your Mac.
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Tom Scola - Oct 25, 2007 3:33:22 pm PDT #3197 of 25497
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
§ ita § - Oct 25, 2007 3:34:32 pm PDT #3198 of 25497
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
DVD Player ---------> Trash, and watch DVDs from your Mac.
Behave!
Unless of course it is multi-region.
amych - Oct 25, 2007 3:35:30 pm PDT #3199 of 25497
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
A non-HD DVD player won't be feeding a high enough resolution signal to need HDMI -- component (component? the one with separate RGB cables, not the one that mashes them all into one video cable) is an excellent choice there. Use HDMI for the HDVo (since it's HD) and the Mac (since vid output on Macs is digital by default, which as Scola points out plays fine with HDMI).
Tom Scola - Oct 25, 2007 3:38:35 pm PDT #3200 of 25497
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Some OEM DVD drives inside of Macs can be unlocked, others can't. In any event, a component connection from your DVD player is fine.
amych - Oct 25, 2007 3:40:56 pm PDT #3201 of 25497
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Some OEM DVD drives inside of Macs can be unlocked, others can't.
Not mine. Huh. Jealous now.
Jon B. - Oct 25, 2007 3:44:05 pm PDT #3202 of 25497
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
What amych & Tom said. Those are basically the connections that I use.
§ ita § - Oct 25, 2007 3:49:05 pm PDT #3203 of 25497
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Cool cool. I will be having the two TiVos for a while, but I can hook the old one up pretty willy nilly in comparison to the other shiny stuff.
Very exciting. I hope to buy the TV this weekend, and I should be getting the TiVo in short order--tracking info said tomorrow, but there are always some sort of delivery/signature shenanigans.
Tom Scola - Oct 25, 2007 3:51:42 pm PDT #3204 of 25497
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Shop around for your HDMI cables, though. The big-box retailers charge way way way too much for them.
§ ita § - Oct 25, 2007 3:56:51 pm PDT #3205 of 25497
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
That was precisely my next question, Tom. I'm looking at the Circuit City web site and wondering. I see one for $80, which is more than my DVD player cost.
When you say shop around--what is a realistic price to not end up with crap? I could swing by Fry's I guess. They should be good, eh?
meara - Oct 25, 2007 4:02:59 pm PDT #3206 of 25497
OK, next question involving cable and TiVos:
So, I've got a new digital cable setup, but when the guy set it up, I didn't have my TiVo or TV. So I tried to do it on my own, and...it wouldn't work.
There's a cable coming out of the wall, then a splitter. One half of that goes to the cable modem. The other half, to a digital cable box.
I couldn't make the digital cable box and the TiVO work together. So I figured no problem, I can just hook the TiVO up to the cable on it's own, and switch inputs on the TV if I want to watch something OnDemand. Not ideal, but whatev'.
So I hook up another splitter, before the digital cable box. Now there's one wire to the modem, one to the box (connected to one TV input), and one to the TiVO (connected to another TV input).
Any idea why the TiVO signal is crazy and ghosty, then? The digital signal is just fine, but the TiVo one isn't much better than over air (though it does get the cable channels).