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Wii + 30" Cinema Display ?
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After 10+ years of not playing games, I'm actually thinking about picking up a Nintendo Wii.
Problem is that I don't have a TV (don't plan on getting one) and would like to use my cinema display as the screen.
El Gato makes the TV Hybrid that has S-Video input.
The Wii can support 480p using component cables .... is there a device that can input the component signal into the Mac and display the information in real time? [to play a game on screen]
any help would be great 
I'm assuming the S-Video coming into the 30", and then stretched near full-screen will look pretty bad .... :X
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Wii is only 480p? It would work I guess. The information that you see on your screen is always slightly delayed, but S-Video and EyeTV Hybrid is the fastest way to go.
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I'm trying to figure out how to do the same. Currently, I have a 23" ACD and a 20" Standard Def TV (go figure).
This holiday season I've been considering getting a larger, LCD TV to play my XBOX 360 and watch HDTV on but if there's a way to interface with my Cinema, I'll just do that! Perhaps I'll take that money I planned to spend on a TV and upgrade to the 30" Cinema =)
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Might be a good idea to protect your screen. I'd hate to sling the wii controller into my 30 incher.
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Please people, call it the revolution.
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It's called the Wii - do you call the GameCube the Dolphin still O_O?
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Using S-Video I think the max signal will be 480i, I wonder how that will look using the EyeTV software? How well it deinterlaces the signal, etc.
Does anyone have experience with the S-Video input of the EyeTV Hybrid with a source like a DVD?
Does it look like ass?
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Originally Posted by Mister Elf 
It's called the Wii - do you call the GameCube the Dolphin still O_O?
 good one. true gamer here.
also, i have it on my dell monitor. they have inputs for other devices.
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Only some do, unfortunately - I don't believe the 30" does...can someone confirm?
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Originally Posted by Mister Elf
Only some do, unfortunately - I don't believe the 30" does...can someone confirm?
Yes, confirmed, the Dell 30" has only one DVI input; nothing else except USB and power. Dell has announced a newer version of the 30", due out before the end of the year, to be sold in addition to the one that's currently available. I don't know about inputs on it.
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It depends on the software from El Gato.
I have an AlchemyTV PCI card, but the software only supports up-to 640x480 pixels. I did try to play Xbox 360 on that thing tho.
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