[mythtv-users] iMac as possible Frontend?

Brad DerManouelian myth at dermanouelian.com
Fri Mar 7 05:00:58 UTC 2008


On Mar 6, 2008, at 8:57 PM, Brad DerManouelian wrote:

> On Mar 6, 2008, at 8:53 PM, Dustin Herrman wrote:
>
>> Greeting,
>>
>> I am wanting to put a Myth Frontend in my kid's playroom.  We don't
>> have
>> an extra TV, so I was thinking of getting an old iMac on eBay.  I  
>> have
>> read the couple of articles on the wiki about this, but was
>> wondering if
>> anyone is actually doing this and how is it working?  Would you
>> recommend a G4? G5? Intel?
>>
>> Any advice is welcomed.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> dusty
>
> My daughter uses a 17" iMac G5 1.6 GHz. It does standard def without a
> problem, but stutters on high def. I'm sure it just needs a tiny but
> more speed to play back high-def smoothly. If you're only doing SD,
> they're great. I would recommend getting a USB IR receiver and using a
> remote since it's for kids. My daughter is 10 and sometimes gets
> irritated controller her "tv" with a keyboard all the time. She's much
> more comfortable with a regular remote control when watching TV.
> Keyboards are for clubpenguins.com. :)

Oh, and my 1.25 GHz Mac Mini G4 plays SD back without a problem too so  
the iMac equivalent should be just fine for you as well.



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