[Yossarian]

I you wanted you could get a TV tuner card. Then you stick you video cable into it.

Yes, there is the Miglia PCI tuner card, or the El Gato Firewire solution. BUT...they don't do HDTV, just old-fashioned NTSC. And HDTV is God's Gift to football.

I hope someone can convince ATI to make a Mac version of their upcoming x800 based All-In-Wonder. Besides, the x800 is more powerful, but burns less power than the nVidia card. This is important if you don't want a noisy computer. Right now my dual G5 is pretty darn quiet, thanks to 9 (!) slow rotating fans.

[dennisw]

Yes, there is the Miglia PCI tuner card, or the El Gato Firewire solution. BUT...they don't do HDTV, just old-fashioned NTSC. 

Thanks for cluing me in

 Right now my dual G5 is pretty darn quiet, thanks to 9 (!) slow rotating fans.

Apple now has some heat pipe or liquid cooled processor computer.

Check this Sony which I think is designed for heavy duty work and has been made very quiet with liquid cooled processor and other tricks

I often go here for silent PC information and forums. I have a lot of quiet Panasonic fans.
http://www.silentpcreview.com/

 

[af_vet_rr]

Right now my dual G5 is pretty darn quiet, thanks to 9 (!) slow rotating fans.

The new liquid-cooled setup they have for the new G5s was partially designed to lower the noise. From what I've read (anybody feel free to correct me if I'm wrong), they had no problems with a heatsink/fan solution, but somebody felt it was too noisy, and liquid cooling would be much quieter.