I need some help with my setup. I am currently testing the waters of going satellite free using OTA (HDHomerun) and a mix between Netflix, Hulu and iTunes season pass. I am using a white macbook (2.1 with 4g ram -leopard) hooked up via mini-dvi to hdmi adaptor and RCA audio through the headphone jack. Both are going to an Onkyo Sr70x receiver then to my Samsung 50in plasma. My issues are below:
1. The screen does not fill out the TV screen completely. I have black bars around all the four sides. The computer is running at 1620X1080(?? I think this is the resolution). Is there a way to fill out the screen?
2. The video quality is horrid and audio seems off. OTA (via VLC), Netflix (via Plex), and videos streaming (via Plex) are awful. I get better Netflix quality on my Wii. The video streaming is done with reg DVD rips and nothing in HD. It seems that the macbook is struggling with loading it up to the high resolution TV. Surely that cannot be, it is not that old of a machine. What say those who are way smarter than I?
3. I need to test, would have done last night -another story, whether or not the same video quality is had with files directly on the machine and not streaming over the network. I will also test using my daughter's newer macbook pro running snow leopard.
#3 might give me all I need to know, but I want to know if there are any tricks or pointers you all can give on the subject. Ideally I would love to trade the white macbook with a newer mac mini that is dedicated to the htpc roll, but do not want to drop coinage if it won't be any different.
1. The screen does not fill out the TV screen completely. I have black bars around all the four sides. The computer is running at 1620X1080(?? I think this is the resolution). Is there a way to fill out the screen?
2. The video quality is horrid and audio seems off. OTA (via VLC), Netflix (via Plex), and videos streaming (via Plex) are awful. I get better Netflix quality on my Wii. The video streaming is done with reg DVD rips and nothing in HD. It seems that the macbook is struggling with loading it up to the high resolution TV. Surely that cannot be, it is not that old of a machine. What say those who are way smarter than I?
3. I need to test, would have done last night -another story, whether or not the same video quality is had with files directly on the machine and not streaming over the network. I will also test using my daughter's newer macbook pro running snow leopard.
#3 might give me all I need to know, but I want to know if there are any tricks or pointers you all can give on the subject. Ideally I would love to trade the white macbook with a newer mac mini that is dedicated to the htpc roll, but do not want to drop coinage if it won't be any different.