[G4] Home Theatre & Sound System

[John Niven]

Yes but if he want home theater then this usually implies multi-channel sound not just stereo. Nearly all pc's have that built in. There aren't very many Mac sound cards since sound has nearly always been a built in feature. My guess is that a firewire or usb connected sound module will be required to get 5.1 sound.

My "home theater" employs a G4 DP450MHz with a SATA card and big disk. It has a Logitech wireless mouse and keyboard. The stereo out goes to a small amp and speakers, while the VGA out goes to my Samsung flat panel. This allows me to watch "video files of dubious origin that my son gets from places on the web" :-) I use the free VLC s/w for viewing.

Aren't I naughty!

John


--- On Wed, 4/22/09, OBrien <bco at hiwaay.net> wrote:

> From: OBrien <bco at hiwaay.net>
> Subject: Re: [G4] Home Theatre & Sound System
> To: rnorthouse at wi.rr.com, "A place to discuss Apple's G4 computers." <g4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
> Date: Wednesday, April 22, 2009, 8:51 PM
> On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:54:54 -0500, Rich Northouse wrote:
> > I am interested in setting up some sort of
> computerized home 
> > theatre and sound system. I would like to be able to
> interface my 
> > Mac to my existing sound system and video equipment. 
> Windows has 
> > such a system built into their Vista OS........ 
> 
> 
> I've never used video with my Macs, but I do use my G5
> (G4 Quicksilver previously, and G4 Sawtooth previous to
> that) as the source for all my music, using iTunes and my
> Macs CD/DVD drive. I simply have my regular stereo amp
> connected to my Mac via the Mac's sound out jack.
> That's all there is to it.
> 
> 
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> 
> O'Brien
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