flexo
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Hi everybody,
So the TV in our bedroom broke and I've been (stubbornly) pushing the 20th Anniversary Mac I had hiding in the closet as a replacement, ignoring my husband's pleads for a TV set.
I thought it would be great:
Which would be fine if the computer had a CRT screen. So now, I have a huge black box around the video when I set the resolution to 640x480. Most channels also now broadcast in HD only, which letterboxes the video, which makes the picture even smaller to the point where all I can see from the bed is just moving colorful blurs[2].
So my question is, is there a way to hack the AVP to support a 800x600 resolution or is there an alternative software that can upscale the input? I'm not sure if the 640x480 is a hardware limit or a software one (or both?) but I'm sure there has to be way to at least upscale the input?
All I could find on this was a FAQ on Quadra AVs, which had some links to alternative software but since it's from 1994, of course all the links are dead. And since apparently most people who search for Quicktime do so with the search term "apple video player", Google is useless.
1 People say I'm half-deaf so this is useful.
2 Unlike my hearing, my eyesight is pretty good. You know that guy you ask to read something to you when you can't? I am that guy usually.
So the TV in our bedroom broke and I've been (stubbornly) pushing the 20th Anniversary Mac I had hiding in the closet as a replacement, ignoring my husband's pleads for a TV set.
I thought it would be great:
- Nice sound system.
- Remote that controls not only the sound but also the can turn the Mac on/off.
- TV input (btw, kudos, Verizon, for having everything from RF to HDMI outputs on your set top boxes.)
- Software with CC support from RF (again, Verizon, kudos, for not stripping that out from RF.)[1]
Which would be fine if the computer had a CRT screen. So now, I have a huge black box around the video when I set the resolution to 640x480. Most channels also now broadcast in HD only, which letterboxes the video, which makes the picture even smaller to the point where all I can see from the bed is just moving colorful blurs[2].
So my question is, is there a way to hack the AVP to support a 800x600 resolution or is there an alternative software that can upscale the input? I'm not sure if the 640x480 is a hardware limit or a software one (or both?) but I'm sure there has to be way to at least upscale the input?
All I could find on this was a FAQ on Quadra AVs, which had some links to alternative software but since it's from 1994, of course all the links are dead. And since apparently most people who search for Quicktime do so with the search term "apple video player", Google is useless.
1 People say I'm half-deaf so this is useful.
2 Unlike my hearing, my eyesight is pretty good. You know that guy you ask to read something to you when you can't? I am that guy usually.
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