Update from Las Vegas

It's been a long time. I've been slacking on my blogging. So, here it is.

Basically, I'm in heaven right now. I can order/buy basically anything I could ever want now that I'm back in America.

Scott-folks have digital cable here at the house. I've been having a great time channel surfing here. It's easy to miss a lot of great shows. Plus, I felt bad that Dad didn't have the Golf Channel in Princeton. I initially thought of buying a TiVo or a Slingbox so that I could "send" him the channel directly. I ended up selecting an EyeTV 250 Plus for my Mac. I can watch and record shows on my Mac and then encode them for burning to DVD, etc. For H.264, I also bought the Elgato Turbo to speed up encoding. I've also been using the TitanTV listings to check out what's on even with out the EyeTV. I just hope that I can connect this thing up to one of the free outlets around the house.

This whole thing got me thinking about how to hookup my Mac to Scott's HDTV. I think with a Mini-DVI to DVI adapter I can get the video out to the HDTV, but I'm not exactly sure how to handle the digital audio. I could make it a lot easier by going with an S-Video and RCA hook-up, but I'd probably be sacrificing a significant amount of signal quality.

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