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How to turn a mac mini into a powerful PVR

MacMerc has a great tutorial on how to take a mac mini, Elgato's EyeTV software, and Plextor's ConvertX hardware video converter to create your own PVR.

The mac mini is pretty light on horsepower, so the use of the external video decoder and encoder keeps those processor intensive tasks off the mini. EyeTV fills in as the UI and the result is something you can easily fit in a media cabinet near a TV, and costs a bit over $700, which is pretty comparable to low end Windows Media Center PCs. [via gizmodo]

by Matt Haughey October 3, 2005 in How-To

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