PowerMac repo
No, I am not talking about the Repo Man coming into my house and taking away my aging PowerMac G5 (aka “hitomi”). Nope, I’ve repUrposed the machine as a sort of bedroom home-entertainment hub. Disconnected from my command center, I moved it upstairs and hooked it up to the 32″ Toshiba LCD screen and NAD stereo system via a DVI->HDMI cable and the built-in audio out stereo mini jack. Control is via my Logitech wireless desktop mouse and keyboard (the S530, if you must know) and the screen is supplemented with an old 17″ Samsung LCD monitor I had kicking around for desktop control. The Toshiba’s only a 720p monitor and running Leopard in 1280×720 overscanned eliminates the menu strip and dock, not to mention, the text’s a little funny.
I spent a few minutes trying to calibrate the screen and got it fairly well done, but the panel isn’t exactly top-of-the-line. In fact, it’s somewhere near the bottom. There’s some noticeable grain on screen and I had to roll the gamma back to about 1.7 to bring up some of the shadows and mids. Still, a quick test run with some video streamed from my main desktop machine over wireless seemed to be getting the job done just fine. I look forward to spending tomorrow morning in bed watching cartoons streamed over the wifi.
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