Directv HD signal via component into a 24" iMac help?

Greetings,
PC user here who is attempting to convert to Mac. I currently have a Dell 17" Media Monitor and an XPS tower. I have both an office and home theater in my basement. So I ran a component cable from my Directv reciever 30' or so into my Dell monitor via component in. This allows me to watch an HD Directv signal in picture in picture while I work on my home office PC. I also have a VGA cable going out of the Dell Monitor about 40' or so to my Marantz projector so that I can watch my PC source on my 10' home theater fixed screen.
Now to my problem. I need to use some Mac apps for work, prefer the OS and want to switch to Mac in my home office. I am very interested in buying the 24" iMac. After a discussion with Mac Sales it seems clear that I can use an Apple mini DVI to VGA adapter to send the iMac source via VGA cable to my home theater projecter. What is unclear to me is how in the world to convert my Directv signal via component cable into the iMac for display? Mind you I don't want to edit the video or store it or burn it or send it to friends or pirate it in any way - so I don't think I need a video capture card. I just want to be able to view the signal and turn the iMac into a dumb monitor in this instance.
Second question. If I can somehow display an HD Directv signal on the iMac ( I know there is a solution for standard def and terrestrial HD signals) via component, surely the video card that comes standard in the iMac - the ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO with 256MB of GDDR3 memory will allow me to view not just the iMac desktop, but any Directv signal that is now viewable on the iMac (presumably in a window or picture in picture)???
I spoke with sales reps at both AJA and Black Majic. they both offer costly solutions or cheaper video card solutions that would allow component in, but only cards that would install in a tower such as the Mac Pro. I would strongly prefer an iMac based solution as it is the perfect Mac for my home office needs and the Mac Pro is overkill.
Any and all suggestions are welcome.
Thanks,
Illiniwin

The iMac does not have a Video Input Port.
http://support.apple.com/specs/imac/iMacMid2007.html
There are a couple of input devices in the following link that may be what your looking for, Digital video input/output via FireWire.
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/wa/RSLID?nnmm=br owse&mco=891A2863&node=home/shopmac/mac_accessories/videodevices
Message was edited by: den.thed

Similar Messages

  • How can we acess the data of one component into othr compnent in webdynpro?

    How can we acess the data of one component into other component in webdynpro....
    I need an Field input from one webdynpro component(comp1) which is away from the line of process to the other component(comp2) we need that data........I mean i need the field info of comp1 where we doesn't navigate through the Comp1 in the portal & directly access the component comp2.........kindly share your ideas.....and possible ways .........
    any doughts do post.....
    thanks in advance!

    Hi Reddy,
    You can do it in multiple ways. One way would be to try transfer the parameters through URL & the other would be to work with the concept of interface nodes. Please try go through these 2 threads ( [Thread 1|Call view of another WDA Component and pass the value to it; & [Thread 2|navigation from one program to another; )where I have explained about working with Interface node in detail. You can refer to this [thread |receving parameters between two standard webdynpro applications;to see as to how you can do the same via parameters in URL.  Hope it would help resolve your problem.
    Regards,
    Uday

  • Video export via component not widescreen and bad quality

    I have a dvd ripped to a .mov file. Chose to keep maximum quality and resolution. Its over 6gb. Its widescreen/letterbox/16:9.
    When i connect to my 42" hi def tv via component cable, the full widescreen is not shown, it zooms in and cuts off the sides. I have tried widescreen on/off on the phone, and the tv's aspect settings, but nothing works.
    Anyone know why this is?
    Also the quality is really bad.
    Its the same if using airplay so suspect its the phone.
    I am quite disappointed by this, i thought it would show the video as it is on the .mov file on the computer. Itunes plays it fine.
    Would the ipad do the same as the phone, or output video properly as it's supposed to be?
    Thanks

    I found the issue but dont know how to fix it... I have 4 mp4 files of the high quality and widescreen format. I imported them into iMovie so I can export as one big file. When adding them to the project iMovie just reduces the clips quality and does not show them at widescreen and crops the left/right sides off so it can fit in the iMovie window. There is nothing in the movie properties to fix this.

  • Integrate flash component into JSP page

    Hi,
    I need to integrate a flash component into my JSP page. flash component is used to put signature via mouse drag. the signature that is put should be captured and stored in DB. can anyone help me how to do it. Thanks in advance...

    I thought about including it in an outputText tag but i never tried it because the output text shouldn't be rendered as html code (by definition).
    Thank you for your brilliant solution, it works fine now.

  • How can we acess the data of one component into othr component in webdynpo?

    How can we acess the data of one component into other component in webdynpro....
    I need an Field input from one webdynpro component(comp1)  which is away from the line of process to the other component(comp2) we need that data........I mean i need the field info of comp1 where we doesn't navigate through the Comp1 in the portal & directly access the  component comp2.........kindly share your ideas.....and possible ways .........
    any doughts do post.....
    thanks in advance!

    Hi,
    Please post your query in forum Web Dynpro ABAP Forum, under Application server.
    You have to define the source component as in the used component in the target one to do that.
    after that you will be able to get data from that component.
    Regards,
    Vaibhav

  • Loading Invoice XML IDoc with digital signature via XI into R/3

    Hi,
    I received an Invoice XML IDoc with digital signature via Mail (for test purposes) and want to load it via XI into an R/3 systeme.
    My idea is to load the Invoice XML IDoc file via the File Sender Adapter into XI and send it to the R/3 system via the IDoc Inbound adapter.
    Due to the digital signature the file looks like this:
    0‚ S      *†H†÷
        ‚ D0‚ @   1 0       +      0‚ '      *†H†÷
        ‚   ‚   ‚ –0‚ ’0‚ û      etc.
    When I load the file like this with the File Sender Adapter, an error message occurs in the XI Monitoring as the XML Parser cannot read the file due to the digital signatur (as expected).
    Has anybody an idea how I can configure the File Sender Adapter Communication Channel to be able to load only the XML IDoc and ignore the digital Signature strings?
    Thanks in advance for your support.
    Alex

    BTW
    do use the second way you need:
    Security Settings for the Sender Mail Adapter
    http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/27/c0524257a1b56be10000000a155106/content.htm
    and
    Key Storage Service
    http://help.sap.com/saphelp_webas630/helpdata/DE/e9/a1dd44d2c83c43afb5ec8a4292f3e0/content.htm
    apart from adapter module config
    Regards,
    michal

  • [svn:cairngorm3:] 15920: Adding the use of Spark component into ModuleC to add the scenario where a Module must be able to get its default spark skin  (currently this is failing due to a bug in the Module Lib)

    Revision: 15920
    Revision: 15920
    Author:   [email protected]
    Date:     2010-05-06 02:11:21 -0700 (Thu, 06 May 2010)
    Log Message:
    Adding the use of Spark component into ModuleC to add the scenario where a Module must be able to get its default spark skin (currently this is failing due to a bug in the Module Lib)
    Modified Paths:
        cairngorm3/trunk/libraries/ModuleTest/src/example/moduleC/ModuleC.mxml

    As the server.xml is big enough, I took the minimum portion of it. Hope u can proceed with it.
    <!-- Tomcat Root Context -->
    <Context path="" docBase="ROOT" debug="0"/>
    <!-- New contexts -->
    <Context path="/xyz" docBase="pathTo_xyz" debug="0" crossContext="true"/>
    <Context path="/pqr" docBase="pathTo_pqr" debug="0" crossContext="true"/>
    <!-- Tomcat Examples Context -->
    <Context path="/examples" docBase="examples" debug="0"
    reloadable="true" crossContext="true">
    You should also provide a WEB-INF folder under pqr or xyz folder.
    You should also provide a web.xml file under each WEB-INF folder.
    The minimal web.xml is
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
    <!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
    "http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">
    <web-app>
    </web-app>
    That's it. Try it out. Hope it is OK.
    Hafizur Rahman
    SCJP

  • Can HD Movies be viewed via Component connection?

    Does anyone know if an HD rental can be viewed over a component connection?
    If there's a need for HDMI to be connected, could I still do the actual viewing over component?
    (I have a TV with no HDMI port, but it will display HD resolution via component. I have a problem with my cable provider because it will only send HD through HDMI - regardless of what's plugged-in to the set top box.)

    you can use either HDMI or component.
    watching an HD movie over component will work fine.

  • How do i get photos sent via email into the new photos app in yosemite 10.10.3

    Using mail on my mac, having upgraded to Yosemite 10.10.3 i now cant import photos sent via email into the new photos app. if i highlight the photo in mail and right click the mouse the option is still to export to iPhoto !!

    I was clicking on the photo, so thanks for telling me about the save icon - unfortunately this still tries to open up and save to iPhoto the same as clicking on the image but my photos have been moved from iPhoto to the new photos app as part of the update to 10.10.3 Yosemite. Although it also gives me the option to save other places i cant work out how to save into the photo app

  • How to read URL parameters of one wdp component into other WDP component?

    Dear Experts,
    Can anyone let me know how to read URL parameters of one wdp component into other WDP component?
    My requirement is i have one standard WDP component with 3 URL parameters and i needto
    read that URL parameters along with their values in my Z-WDP component.
    Thanks
    SK

    Hi Santosh,
    You can read parameters send from one WebDynpro Component to another component by adding code in "HANDLEDEFAULT" Event Handler method ( Window )of your target Web Dynpro Component.
    data: lt_parameter             type tihttpnvp,
             ls_parameter             type ihttpnvp.
    lo_api_controller ?= wd_this->wd_get_api( ).
       call method lo_api_controller->get_message_manager
         receiving
           message_manager = lo_message_manager.
       clear : ls_parameter.
       refresh : lt_parameter[].
    * Read all URL parameters
       wdevent->get_data( exporting name = if_wd_application=>all_url_parameters importing value = lt_parameter ).
    if not lt_parameter[] is initial.
         clear : ls_parameter.
         read table lt_parameter into ls_parameter index 1.
         if ls_parameter-name = 'ACTION' and
            ls_parameter-value is initial.
           lv_flag = 'X'.
           clear : lo_msg.
           lo_msg = 'Action Parameter Missing in URL Link !'.
    *         report message
           call method lo_message_manager->report_error_message
             exporting
               message_text = lo_msg.
         else.
         endif.
    Best Regards
    Priyesh Shah

  • Use dvt map component into adf mobile

    Hello,
    I'm just wondering if it's possible to use the dvt map component into an adf mobile application or if there's another way to display a map coming from mapviewer.
    Does anybody know it there are any limitations?
    Thanks and regards

    Currently DVT Map component is not supported for ADF Mobile. Alternatively you could look at embedding Google Maps or just invoke Google Maps from your app. On iOS and Android, if you create a link with something like ("http://maps.google.com/maps?q=<Text or EL Expression containing the value of the address you want to search>"), then native Google Maps application would be launched to display that address. You can also embed a Google Map in your page as an image as well - check Google Map's site for details of how to issue an URL that could return an image containing Google Maps and search results.
    Thanks,
    Joe Huang

  • Create new component into other component

    I just want to insert a component into other component (2nd level), I achieve to insert component into an Ibase but only in the first level.
    I use the function CRM_IBASE_COMP_CREATE for create 1rst level components, but seems don't work If I try to put any component on the second level.
    Can anybody help? Many thanks!

    Thanks Vishant Jain,
    But seems the configuration it's ok, I can generate components (family 102) into other component (family 101) with transaction ib52.
    When I generate the first component (101), seems all ok, I can ib53 and see the result, but, when I try to generate 102 with 101 like ibase, I have the "No ibase found" message and, as expected, i can't see the ibase ralationed with 101.
    In fact, when I create the first compnonent, sap generate a new register in table comm_product but not in ibib table, and then, when a tried to assign the 2nd level component I can't assign to the 1rst level component because it isn't an ibase.
    Can anyone help?
    Thanks!

  • Is it still necessary to use a third party app in order to stream SiriusXm radio signal via iTunes?  Would like to use iTunes to handle the signal and send out to remote speakers?

    Is it necessary to use a third party app in order to stream SiriusXm signal via iTunes to my remote speakers?

    Is it necessary to use a third party app in order to stream SiriusXm signal via iTunes to my remote speakers?

  • How to include a third party component into a netbeans project

    I am working in netbeans 5.0 and i want to include a third party component into my project.I have the jar files of a text editor ie FCK text editor.Could anyone tell me how to include the component into my project

    - Put the jar file on a location you want (the location must be the same for all developers).
    - Select the "Libraries" node of your project.
    - Press the right mouse button to bring up the popup menu and choose "Add JAR / Folder..."
    - Locate and select the JAR file you need and press OK.
    - Now you have included it into your project.

  • Scrolling component into view programmatically without using javascript

    Hi,
    Is it possible to scroll an adf component into view programmatically without using javascript?
    I know of <af:scrollComponentIntoViewBehaviour> that can be added to a command component , but is there a way to do that programmatically in a bean?
    Problem with using javascript is its not guaranteed to work in different browsers.
    Regards,
    Rakesh.

    Hi John,
    Thanks for the reply.
    If i use the af:scrollComponentIntoViewBehavior, then i wont be able to achieve my desired functionality.
    In my use case, i want the id, of the component that needs to be scrolled into view, to be determined in the server listener of the button which is not happening.
    Code snippet in jspx page is as follows:
    <af:commandButton id="cb1" immediate="true">
    <af:clientListener method="clickButton" type="click"/>
    <af:serverListener type="customEvent"
    method="#{pageFlowScope.bean.doScroll }"/>
    <af:scrollComponentIntoViewBehavior id="#{pageFlowScope.bean.compId}/>
    </af:commandButton>
    And the java code for method doScroll is something like :
    public void doScroll (ClientEvent clientEvent)
    //logic to determine compId goes here
    compId = "id";
    So, the problem here is "compId" is set to some value when bean is loaded and the id in the af:scrollComponentIntoViewBehavior will be set to that value forever.
    I cant find any way of telling it to re-read the "compId" value, say after clicking the button. I can refresh the button in the server listener to update the compId .
    But the updated compId will come into picture from *next click*. This is because, after the button is clicked, "scroll" action happens first and then serverListener executes.
    Is there a way to change order of this execution like "execute server listener first and then do the scrolling thing" ?
    Regards,
    Rakesh.
    Edited by: 927925 on Jul 27, 2012 2:02 AM

Maybe you are looking for