Playing xbox with my iMac replacing my TV?

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elgato something....can't remember which one. Let me look it up

Here you go: http://www.elgato.com/index.php?file=products_eyetvez

I don't know how well it works because I don't personally own it, but I'd be very interested to know.

 

Oh sorry -- I was going to reply, but the more I thought about what I was going to suggest, I realized it wasn't going to work. I was going to say you should try taking a VGA adapter and hooking an analog input to it, but then the Xbox requires its own input, and you'd also need something to feed into your computer, so nevermind. Sorry

 

Hmmm... I'd be interested to see how it works, but it doesn't really look like you'd be able to game on it... but it might be worth trying. Unless there's an analog adapter for the Xbox?

 

Nope, that EyeTV thing is only a receiver. you can't input through that unfortunately.
I'm in the process of doing something similar with my Powerbook. getting a 20" LCD monitor in just 3 days time, buying that EyeTV DTT and using it as my TV.

i dont know about the iMacs ports, but if it has an extra monitor output port then I suppose... its not a cheap option at all though... you could use dual monitors AND (with the right monitor) play your Xbox on it too.

 

Get one of those:

AverMedia TV Box9

It plays everything live. It's essentially a RCA-Composite-Component to VGA converter, with a TV tuner built in. I have one, it works great.

 

Have you ever actually used it for video games? The problem with things like EyeTV is that theres a 2 second delay so you cant use it for gaming.

 

Yes. There's absolutely no delay. The problem with EyeTV is that it goes through the operating system and everything, and is software-based, so it has to process the images. But with the TV Box9, it goes directly through the VGA port, and the display displays it. Nothing to do with the computer at all. In fact you don't need the computer at all for the TV Box9 to work.

But alas, I re-read the post, and he said iMac. D'oh, you need a VGA input.

 

iMacs don't have VGA?? Oh man, that sucks. That's why I'm getting a PowerMac Maybe if you went to an apple store and asked a Mac Genius they might know of something..?? Just a thought.

 

Since when can the powermac do VGA input????

Besides, people are having enough trouble getting it to work on any Apple Cinema Display (20,23,30).

 

Any possibility of using an Xbox with a 30 inch display?

Also I noticed that I didn't have to hook up both ports from the GeForce 6800 GT card for the display to view 2560x1600 pixels. It just had one DVI port. I was under the impression it would have required two DVI ports.

 

Just DVI