New Mac mini Home Theater

My current home theater setup using the October 2009 Mac mini.

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[JSBarranco926]

Will you be upgrading to the new Mac Mini?!?!

[MattsMacintosh]

@JSBarranco926 Probably not this generation

[Snagrit]

hey mate please get back to me if u can. With movies u download from itunes store, arent they too small to play on wide screen tv of my home theatre? i mean, if they go on my tiny i-phone, wont it be pixelated on the big screen? thnks

[MattsMacintosh]

@Snagrit The movies from the iTunes store are either at a resolution of 480 (which is the same quality as a DVD) or 720 (which is HD quality), so they will look fine on your TV.

[hill2033]

You should use xbmc and setup a NAS :) That's what i'm running minus the NAS and projector but i plan to change that soon! do you record tv shows and movies with that tuner card?

[MattsMacintosh]

@hill2033 I was actually considering a NAS setup the other day (I was looking at the Drobo). I do record TV shows with the EyeTV tuner card... it works really well.

[vantageIIx]

Just a tip..the mini-jack on most newer Macs doubles as an optical audio connection, so if you buy a 3.5 to Toslink cable you can get full 5.1 digital sound

[ozzytonygeezerbill]

I occasionally hook my macbook up to my TV to watch movies or hulu, and I found a great piece of free software called plex. its kind of like a heavily upgraded version of front row with plugin support, they've got a hulu plugin, a netflix plugin and a youtube plugin. You should check it out, it would go great with this already incredible set up.

[Compucore]

I am just wondering here. I recently got a Mac Mini (2005 Version with the G4 and 1 gig of ram) Would something like this still work. The hard drive is small. But I was thinking of maybe using an external hard drive that would connect to either firewire or USB and do it that way Eventually with a HDTV with it. Hard drives external hard drives can be bought for it. The current lines of external drives that can be bought won't work with OSX 10.4 since they mostly require 10.5 or higher.

[wildpianist]

Mr Matt is da bomb!

[Webcast01]

How abouts a 2012 tour?

[R3n3s0nyk1ll]

the only better different between dvi and hdmi is that dvi support analog and digital and dvi-i support sound too

[stpworld]

hey i just finished watching your video and maybe you can answer this for me? I do have one comptuer with a DVI output and it really carries the sound through the DVI port perhaps you would know why that is? I am a mac user ym self but the computer i use in my theater is a pc with DVI out cause it was given to me by a freind. @MattsMacintosh

[MrPlaystationboy]

does the mac mini suport 5.1 trough hdmi ?

[manwhowantsahemi]

XBMC Would be amazing on that

[remurdereht]

if you haven't already done so, you can use a program to set a custom resolution so things aren't stretched on that display. I'd recommend one called switchresx.

[johngotechs]

I hooked up my Mac Mini to my Panasonic Viera TV. (It can handle full 1080p) by HDMI but none of the Display options show the full desktop! Not only on this TV but all of them! Help!!