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Mac Mini & Outboard DAC

I'm trying desperately to simplify the basic home system. Seems to me, a mac mini, and decent outboard dac would do the job. I've built my own speakers and have a bel canto S300 dual mono amp for power. I can get internet radio streams, which are superior to my am/fm reception. I can move all my apple lossless files to the hardrive, and with a Miglia TVMax+ I can rig it as a DVR/DVD player. Surely I'm missing something. I'd be much obliged if someone can tell me where this will fail before I give it a shot.
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shadorne
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I use a wireless keyboard with trackball with my Mac Mini. I don't use it to store music however - just to surf the net and control the CD players. This was I can control everything from the listening position on an HD TV. ON ething that gave me a headache was I had to reprogram teh video card in order to output 720 P to the HDTV - unless you do this then inevitably you tend to have parts of teh screen missing as MAC OS X native screen resolutions do not match the 1920 x 1080 of the TV.....this was a minor detail but it took a whole evening to work out...
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shadorne
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Restock,

I used DisplayConfigX which worked brilliantly with my Sharp HDTV (supports up to full 1080P which is 1920 x 1080 pixels). I was only to get the video to output a 720p resolution that the TV recognized as 720p. I did not manage to get 1080p to work, as I think it was too much for the meagre G4 Mac Mini video card to handle.

Of course I immediately sent some money to Harald Schweder for writing this great little program that allows you to construct your own screen resolutions and import them into the Mac System Preferences =>Displays control panel
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