AppleTV makes for a nice digital art server
Well after a year of testing three different HD media players for my makeshift video wall at home I finally got things up and running with the AppleTV and I am sold.
There were more parts needed than I had originally planned (namely a 3-way DVI splitter from Hall Research Technologies that was like 300 bucks) but in the end, it looks great and was a breeze to put together.
The only remaining hitch is aspect ratio / display resolution support issues with the AppleTV. It currently is designed to run with HD televisions and not high resolution pc/mac displays (an oversight in my opinion) and so when you connect it to a PC display (in this case, three Sony 17" flat panels framed in custom wood frames) it squeezes the images.
The (manual labor required) workaround is to convert all images to a format that is too wide so that when the images get squeezed down they end up the correct aspect ratio. I am hoping that in the coming months Apple will release new drivers / support for different display resolutions and aspect ratios.
(don't give me any crap about the complete mess behind the displays....this is like the 5th time I have had to install and uninstall a media player so the nicely tied down cables went out the window long ago)
Maybe I'll get to see it some day... I'm curious as to how you got it to display on 3 at once... I thought it only had support for one monitor.
When are we going to get that beer?
Posted by: Tayor | May 02, 2007 at 03:58 PM