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You can find legal HD samples at http://206.159.116.24/public.htm weekly new short samples from US HD Television from movies or TV shows or bigger ones ftp://ftp.cmf.nrl.navy.mil/pub/iHDTV/ Nasa shots of the Space Shuttle launches !! Resolutions are i.e. 1280x720 and 1920x1080 Have fun, but beware t...

Thank you for the fast reply ! Sad thing, that means I cannot use my Mac for smooth HDTV playback. I am trying to collect some HD stuff, since the quality is amazing and I run it on a projector. Connecting my PB via DVI to my LCD Projector would be a dream with smooth HD playback. VLC is a great too...

The problem is that VLC does not use any hardware acceleration on a Mac. Without it you cant play HDTV smoothly on anything. Havent tried a dual G5, but my 1.25Ghz PowerBook G4 cant do HDTV. Its possible on Win machines with players which support the graphics hardware. A Radeon 9600 and 1-1.5Ghz is ...