<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/28/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ask Bjørn Hansen</b> <<a href="mailto:ask@develooper.com">ask@develooper.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>On Feb 28, 2006, at 10:51 AM, Todd Ignasiak wrote:<br><br>> The new Mac Mini looks like it will make a great HTPC / MythTV<br>> frontend. It has the same small form factor as the old mini, but<br>> with a much faster processor (dual core option), digital audio
<br>> output, gigabit ethernet, built-in IR receiver and remote<br>> control. The dual core intel processor has plenty of horsepower<br>> for HD MPEG2 decoding. I think I'll be picking one up.<br><br>Yeah, me too. I have tons of space so I'll be happy to store
<br>uncompressed ATSC but my old Mac Mini can't play it.<br><br>Whoever gets one first, please report back if it can play HDTV. :-)</blockquote><div><br><br>I have tried the MacBook Pro in the Apple store, and it played near-HD resolution
H.264 video. So, I think the Mini will have no problem with HD MPEG2.<br><br>But, I'll see soon. I ordered the dual core Mini, with 100GB HDD and 1GB RAM. The first thing I'll try is HD video via MythTV (if there is an Intel binary MythTV frontend I can find).
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