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Hi,
I just got a Wii but sold my TV and no longer have a TV, is there someway i can hook up my Wii to my new iMac. If so please post an answer because I am dying to play.
Thanks
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Peter Cohen 
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Posted 27 October 2008 - 06:57 AM
You can buy a USB video input device like the kind Elgato makes.
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Posted 27 October 2008 - 07:49 AM
Yes, you'll need the software that comes with Elgato's hardware -- EyeTV -- to watch the video feed from your Wii.
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Posted 27 October 2008 - 04:00 PM
The EyeTV Hybrid is more suitable, as it doesn't have hardware compression and therefore doesn't delay the signal transmission as much as the EyeTV 250.
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Posted 28 October 2008 - 07:08 AM
Does this thing actually work for gaming consoles? And by work I mean work flawlessly, like in you can't tell the difference between using it with your iMac or directly plugging your console into a monitor
I'd have bought one yesterday if I was confident it was lag-free.
I'd have bought one yesterday if I was confident it was lag-free.
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Posted 28 October 2008 - 07:58 AM
My experience has been that it's adequate. The lag is measured in milliseconds; it's not big enough to be a game-changer, at least in my experience. Your mileage may vary, of course.
The bigger issue is that it does analog-digital conversion; you're outputting an analog (component/composite/S-Video) signal to a USB converter, which then creates a digital image on your screen. So it's not working at "native" resolution of the host display; that means it's anti-aliased and "fuzzy" looking; not as sharp as it would be if you'd hooked the display up directly to a digital display or a TV.
To that end, you're S.O.L. where the iMac is concerned. There's no way to manage direct video input on an iMac, that's not what it's built for. The only solution there would be to get an external display that has multiple inputs; Dell and others make them. Of course, that's the same as buying a TV, which defeats the whole point of what the original poster was trying to accomplish.
The bigger issue is that it does analog-digital conversion; you're outputting an analog (component/composite/S-Video) signal to a USB converter, which then creates a digital image on your screen. So it's not working at "native" resolution of the host display; that means it's anti-aliased and "fuzzy" looking; not as sharp as it would be if you'd hooked the display up directly to a digital display or a TV.
To that end, you're S.O.L. where the iMac is concerned. There's no way to manage direct video input on an iMac, that's not what it's built for. The only solution there would be to get an external display that has multiple inputs; Dell and others make them. Of course, that's the same as buying a TV, which defeats the whole point of what the original poster was trying to accomplish.
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