MacBook or mbpro to HDTV

gktsteve · 7 Apr 2008 at 22:48

hi I'm 99% sure I'm going to buy a macbook this weekend as a plain MacBook with large hdd is more than enough for my usage (xbox360 and ps3 for gaming) but I will be using mb to stream movies through my 32" samsung r86 HDTV. Will I easily be able to do this or should I get a mbpro?
also another major clincher in getting a mac is the abitlity to use sopcast - any1 know if this works on mac?
cheers

Chris1712 · 7 Apr 2008 at 23:30

Normal macbook will be able to output that res fine, so yeah your good to go on that front.

Sopcast, does not work in Mac. I use it fine through bootcamp in Vista, but there is no Mac version. I tried it in parallels about a year ago and it was a no go.

gktsteve · 7 Apr 2008 at 23:42

how about tvants? Is that mac compatible? If not may well be looking at getting a windows laptop, or is bootcamp easy to set up?

Chris1712 · 7 Apr 2008 at 23:44

I've not found a common streaming app for Mac yet. Tvants/sopcast/TVU/Afreeca the lot dont work, bootcamp is required.

Bootcamp is dead easy to set up, and windows (xp/vista) work flawlessly.

electric ant · 7 Apr 2008 at 23:50

Ive used sopcast through vmware fusion, no problems, if that helps.

gktsteve · 7 Apr 2008 at 23:50

ok nice one cheers - looks like this weekend will be an expensive one!

kilvano · 7 Apr 2008 at 23:56

electric ant said:
Ive used sopcast through vmware fusion, no problems, if that helps.

Here is a screen of me using it to watch the grand prix a few weeks back. VMWare with Sopcast = Easy.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kilvano/2354229314/sizes/l/

onering · 10 Apr 2008 at 21:34

electric ant said:
Ive used sopcast through vmware fusion, no problems, if that helps.

I've been using VMware 1.1.1 and Win XP SP2 with sopcast for a year. No problems. TVants used to work, but now just buffers forever without connecting. think its a proxy issue tho; but sopcast is 100% A-OK.