How can I play my Wii and use my iMac G5 as the display for the game?
Monday, April 12th, 2010 at
3:31 pm
I have an iMac G5 (iSight) and a Nintendo Wii. I’d like to be able to bring my Wii up to play it in my room, but I need to figure out how to make my Mac serve as the TV display for my Wii. Is there a cost-efficient way to do this, or is it impossible/very expensive?
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While the iMac has a port for connecting a second monitor to it, there is no video input that would allow the iMac screen to be used by another device.
I suppose one could crack the shell and hack something together, but I’m not going to make any suggestions in that direction. It would be an incredibly delicate operation that would almost certainly permanently damage the iMac.
The iMac has video out, but not video in, so there’s no convenient way to get the signal out of your Wii and into the iMac.
You could, technically, hook up something like a Datavideo DAC-100 analog-to-digital video converter. But that’s actually meant for video capture, not for watching video like movies or games, and the results wouldn’t be what you want.
You’d be better off to look at getting an inexpensive LCD display that will accept composite video or S-video in, and just using that alongside your iMac.
You would need an external TV Tuner from Hauppauge/Eskape and Elgato.
http://www.amazon.com/Elgato-10020415-Eyetv-Hybrid/dp/B000HNJ6U0/sr=1-1/qid=1172450304/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-2404232-2811232?ie=UTF8&s=electronics
Depending on which model you get,
you may need an RF modulator to convert the video to RF to connect to a tuner.
http://www.elgato.com/index.php?file=products_eyetvhybridna
http://www.eskapelabs.com/mytv.html