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SuperTV mod rocks your living room |
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Written by Chris Tangora
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Sunday, 27 July 2008 |
 Take a look at this, it could be the next TV/computer you buy. It's called a SuperTV and I'm not sure if it's a mod or a new product, but Luciano Perego from Italy has a pretty good idea. By combining a HD TV and a Mac Mini, he has a real all-in-one entertainment center. Now when I say combining, I really mean combining. It looks like he actually has the Mac Mini inside of the TV. So far he can only do it with Samsung TV's but he is investigating the electronics in Sony/Phillips and Sharp TV's.
The site, supertv.it, is in Italian so you're probably best going to the site through Google's language tools; click here for a direct link to the translated site. There is a link on top for an English version, but as of writing it does not work.
The SuperTV seems pretty nice. While most of us are familiar with attaching a Mac to a HDTV, this allows you to save even more space by combining them in the same form factor. You still have the input/output options of a standard HDTV, but now you have a built in Mac. Since you can bootcamp into Windows as well, this is not just a Mac only mod. I think that Luciano has a good idea here and I'm glad to see that he went with the Mac as the base.
The prices start at 1,800 euros (currently about US$2,800). There are more photos and details on the systems at Luciano's website. I'd love to see how they are built, as they look very smooth.
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