[X4U] mac mini hooked to a TV

[Dave]

That is excellent!

With all due respect to your local electrical supply, a UPS is a small  
investment when compared to the cost of all the equipment connected  
and the associated data. Considering that a UPS can protect your  
equipment from surges, voltage spikes, under-voltage (brown-outs), and  
short term power outages, any of which could easily damage electronics  
or corrupt data, I can't understand why anyone wouldn't have all their  
electronics protected.

When it comes to ripping DVD's, I'm no expert or connoisseur, yet...  
I've been using Handbrake's 'AppleTV' setting for TV playback, and if  
I wish to put a movie on my iPhone I'll re-encode the ripped version  
using the 'iPhone' setting. This seems to be doing a decent enough  
job. I'm not concerned with file size as my notebook has a mostly  
empty 320GB HD, and my iPhone usually has over 1.5GB of free space.

Regards,
Dave

On 4-Apr-09, at 14:33, alexandre wrote:

> yep, i'm enjoying it… what really amazed me (and that's where  
> apple's strength is) is how easily i am able to stream music and  
> movies from my 24" imac (main machine) to the mac mini. f-a-n-t-a-s- 
> t-i-c ! the only thing i plan to have locally are my photos…
>
> i also got an apple bluetooth keyboard (new) and a mouse (second- 
> hand) to use with the mac. and i'm surprised at how good that apple  
> IR remote is! concerning power, i think i'm covered, i live in the  
> middle of zurich, no risk here (!)
>
> maybe you can answer this question: i rip my dvds, as a backup but  
> also to take along with me on long trips. i use handbrake to do  
> this. what settings would you use, considering i have 26" HD ready  
> lcd tv?
>
> very best regards, alexandre