Digital television on a old mac? — #7

Post #7 by Anonymous Freak

Source Forum	68kMLA
Category	PowerPC
Post Date	Fri, 1 Jan 2010 - 06:37
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/digital-television-on-a-old-mac.19418/

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Are those boxes still available/going to be available in the near future? I'm up in the air about taking a TV set to an apartment whenever I move but it may be a good idea to have one on hand if I do take it (which I'd mostly do for my Wii) in case the wireless network was down and I needed to get, say, a weather report in a hurry (which I could do with TV). I wouldn't need cable (since I'll get MLB.TV for my baseball games) and rarely watch anything outside of the occasional game of Jeopardy on TV these days but my TV is older (and I can't justify spending money on a new one right now; I'd rather invest in some additional furniture instead).
My set, by the way, is a Sony 27" CRT from 2004, although I wouldn't mind a Macintosh TV if I wanted to downsize my TV and go retro while I'm at it (while sticking with a Sony display)...

The subsidy from the government is gone, but the boxes are still available (and will be for quite some time; people still need them, after all.) About $40 at Radio Shack (or similar.) But you could probably get a used HD tuner for your Mac for just a little more.