<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Apr 22, 2009, at 8:54 PM, Rich Northouse wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi Gang,<br><br>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. <br><br>While I really want to develop a cool set-up, I also really would like to have a Mac as the cornerstone ! Anybody out there have some ideas? In particular what kind of hardware and software are available . Is there stuff available on both a G4 and a G5 system?? I don’t even know just what is available or what it can do ?? Can you folks help me flesh this desire out ?<br><br>Thanks.<br><br>Rich<br></div></blockquote><br></div><div>If you want the best of both worlds, might I suggest a hackintosh? To get an idea of what's being done in this area, just google hackintosh htpc. HTH</div><div><br></div><div>Just a message from mosslack...</div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/hq-a">http://groups.google.com/group/hq-a</a> <+> A home for the Hackintosh community.</div><div><br></div><div>To subscribe to the HQ-A group, send email to <a href="mailto:hq-a+subscribe@googlegroups.com">hq-a+subscribe@googlegroups.com</a></div></div></span> </div><br></body></html>