Mac TV

Sounds like you are describing the Apple Set Top Box. A wonderfully useless peice of hardware. This box does in/out as it is a sort of cable TV tuner/interactive TV device. But, as far as I know, there are no functional units in existance. I think this is due mostly to the fact that they needed to be connected to a special "server" of sorts to do anything. Mine powers up, and does nothing from there (I can get a quick pop of audio on occasion, but nothing more). I have heard rumor that some have gotten a blue screen to be displayed, but really every one that I know about does the same as mine... powers on and sits doing nothing. The intent of them was to make an interactive TV unit for schools and other groups. They never made it past the testing stage, and it would seem that although a good number of the boxes made it into the public, the server unit to make them do anything did not. And these boxes I would think are also PAL compatible, at least mine has SCART connectors on the back. They are covered by Do Not Remove stickers, but the connectors appear to be there anyway. I think Tom Owad had some info on them onhis AppleFritter site. If anyone knows how to get one to do something, I'd be interested to hear... and if anyone wants one, for a while there was someone selling them on eBay, opening bid of $9.99, and I think most were closing with no bids. (I got mine at a garage sale for $5... some poor kid went off to college, and his mother was selling off everything he had, tons of old toys, baseball cards, and odd computer parts. I'm sure he was NOT happy when he came home for break!) -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>