Comments on: Mac Installation TV 101 http://blog.azazil.net/481-mac-installation-tv-101.html Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:41:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Gaz http://blog.azazil.net/481-mac-installation-tv-101.html/comment-page-1#comment-10647 Gaz Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:29:08 +0000 http://blog.azazil.net/481-20070925-mac-installation-tv-101.html#comment-10647 <p>Hi James,</p> <p>Miro looks pretty neat, I'll be trying it out over the next couple of weeks. Thanks for the tip!</p> <p>With respect to ripping DVDs, aside from saving wear and tear on the battery and optical drive, it's quite liberating being able to carry what used to be a 6 foot tall bookcase full of DVDs (100 or so) and CDs (600 or so) in a single 2.5" 160Gb external drive. I haven't bought a physical CD for more than a year now, and I'm looking forward to the day when digital distribution of movies is convenient enough that I won't need to by physical DVDs anymore :-)</p> <p>I forgot to mention Apple's Front Row, which I would be more likely to use but for the fact that I tend to watch stuff either on my macbook where I'm close enough to just reach for the keyboard, my G5 iMac which doesn't support a remote control, or my (late) video iPod which of course doesn't run Front Row... And then there's the promising looking <a href="http://centerstageproject.com/" rel="nofollow">CenterStage</a>, which might make hooking my macbook directly into the TV a better option than syncing shows to my iPod first...</p> <p>Cheers, Gary</p> Hi James,

Miro looks pretty neat, I’ll be trying it out over the next couple of weeks. Thanks for the tip!

With respect to ripping DVDs, aside from saving wear and tear on the battery and optical drive, it’s quite liberating being able to carry what used to be a 6 foot tall bookcase full of DVDs (100 or so) and CDs (600 or so) in a single 2.5″ 160Gb external drive. I haven’t bought a physical CD for more than a year now, and I’m looking forward to the day when digital distribution of movies is convenient enough that I won’t need to by physical DVDs anymore :-)

I forgot to mention Apple’s Front Row, which I would be more likely to use but for the fact that I tend to watch stuff either on my macbook where I’m close enough to just reach for the keyboard, my G5 iMac which doesn’t support a remote control, or my (late) video iPod which of course doesn’t run Front Row… And then there’s the promising looking CenterStage, which might make hooking my macbook directly into the TV a better option than syncing shows to my iPod first…

Cheers, Gary

]]> By: James Urquhart http://blog.azazil.net/481-mac-installation-tv-101.html/comment-page-1#comment-10646 James Urquhart Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:10:25 +0000 http://blog.azazil.net/481-20070925-mac-installation-tv-101.html#comment-10646 <p>A great selection of apps. Sadly though i've not quite got into the mindset of ripping DVD's i watch instead of just plonking in the DVD player. But really, i should as it saves the darn DVD drive from spinning up and eating away at the battery.</p> <p>(Thinking more of the DVD drive, i really wish there was a way of turning it off so it didn't always make a darn noise every time the machine boots up or resumes from suspend)</p> <p>Another TV-related app which runs on OS X is <a href="http://www.getmiro.com/" rel="nofollow">Miro</a>. Think of it as a Video Podcast downloader which includes a nice Channel (i.e. Video Podcast) Guide. It even uses Bit Torrent, so the downloads are usually quite fast. There are a lot of interesting channels to watch on it - Channel Frederator being one of my favorites! :)</p> A great selection of apps. Sadly though i’ve not quite got into the mindset of ripping DVD’s i watch instead of just plonking in the DVD player. But really, i should as it saves the darn DVD drive from spinning up and eating away at the battery.

(Thinking more of the DVD drive, i really wish there was a way of turning it off so it didn’t always make a darn noise every time the machine boots up or resumes from suspend)

Another TV-related app which runs on OS X is Miro. Think of it as a Video Podcast downloader which includes a nice Channel (i.e. Video Podcast) Guide. It even uses Bit Torrent, so the downloads are usually quite fast. There are a lot of interesting channels to watch on it – Channel Frederator being one of my favorites! :)

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