Has anyone else ever thought about this. With mac mini sales at a fraction of apples sales and apple tv being just a little over priced. Well lets face it they are both over priced. How about a Mac mini with an hdmi out and apple tv characteristics. It makes perfect since. I was wanting to buy an apple tv but it would make more sense to just hook up a mac mini with dvi to hdmi. I just think they should merge the two together. Any thoughts?
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Mac Mini + Apple TV
- Thread starter cah87
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This is pretty obvious, and a lot of people with some tech know-how use the mini for their media center pc. PLUS the mini can get web access, and with all the video content coming through non-Apple web sites, that's important. PLUS the mini has a DVD player.
Apple needs to do something with ATV if they hope to sell any. Right now, it's just an iPod with better video output but no built-in screen and not portable.
Component output - Mini can't do component without a transcoder. Doesn't mean much to some but for those that need it it's a dealbreaker...
I always see component grouped with HDMI, VGA or both on the back of TVs. Are there standalone component TVs?