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There are three ways to display Envision's amazing Web images on your television. The best way is to connect a Mac running Envision directly to one of the TV's input ports. If you don't have a Mac in the same room as your TV, you can send Envision's images to your TV from a Mac anywhere in your house using a Video Sender or a Digital Media Center. Connecting your Mac directly. The easiest and highest-quality way to display Envision's images on your TV is to directly connect a Mac running Envision to one your TV's input ports. All current Macs have composite video (NTSC/PAL), S-Video and VGA outputs, which can be connected to equivalent inputs on your TV if those inputs are available (VGA is usually best quality, S-Video next, and composite last). If your Mac has DVI output, and your TV DVI input (available on almost all new HDTVs), you can try that as well. Your TV-connected Mac will of course also need an Internet connection. If your TV room is wired for Ethernet, then you're all set. Otherwise you'll probably want to set up an AirPort (wireless) network and use that to provide wireless Internet access to your Mac. No Mac in your living room? You might want to think about getting one. Seriously. These days you can pick up an AirPort-capable Mac mini for your entertainment center for just a few hundred dollars. Beyond using it for Envision, you can also use it to display your iPhotos and to send your iTunes to your stereo. But, if you really don't want a Mac in your living room, you can... Use a video sender. A video sender (such as one from Radio Shack) is a two-part device which wirelessly sends video from a video input source (like your Mac) to a video output source (like your TV). You connect the sender part to the video output of your Mac and the receiver part to a video input of your TV. From then on, that TV input will display whatever's on your Mac screen, in particular cool Envision images. Many video senders can also send infrared remote control signals back to the video source. So, in combination with a Macintosh infrared remote control, you can even remotely control Envision from in front of your TV. 
View Envision's images through a digital media center. A new class of product, the digital media center acts as a "bridge" between your computer and your entertainment center. A digital media center is usually hooked up directly to your TV and stereo, and pulls movies, photos and music from your computer using a network connection. You can also tell most digital media centers to pull pictures from a folder on your computer. So you can use Envision's "Save to Pictures folder" feature in combination with a digital media center to create Envision-based slide shows on the TV to which the media center is connected. Open Door has tested the following digital media centers with Envision:
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