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Many of us are of sufficient age to consider Steve McGarrett and his awesome sidekick Danno in the long running TV series Hawaii Five-O.

If you are of sufficient age – and then for those you may not be but you are just curious – listed here are my top five Five-O factlets!

1. The show was based (and filmed almost exclusively) in Hawaii. Since this was the 50th U.S. state, it was given the name Hawaii Five-O. The show’s producer, Leonard Freeman, originally planned to refer to it “The Man”

2. The series is situated throughout the activities of the special police agency headed by Steve McGarrett who reports right to hawaii governor. The simple truth is no such organization exists.

3. Five-O were only available in 1968 and finished – after 278 episodes spanning 12 series – in 1980.

4. The series stars Jack Lord. He was offered negligence Captain Kirk in Star Trek but turned it down. Lord was given birth to in 1920 in Brooklyn. He died in Hawaii in 1998. He was crowned Executive Producer from the show after Leonard Freeman died. He was seen to have an autocratic type of leadership and was very particular about having things his way.

5. The show would have been a runaway success before it starts. Detail wasn’t enough, additionally, it had essentially the most famous theme tunes in TV. The Hawaii Five-O theme was composed by Morton Stevens who also penned a great many other TV themes such as “Police Woman”. Morton was created in Newark, Nj in 1929 and died in Encino, California in 1991. In the year 2000, twenty years as soon as the series ended, a poll in england rated the Five-O music as being the most catchiest of TV themes. Stevens won two Emmy awards for music in “Hookman” and “A Thousand Pardons, You’re Dead.” I am the proud owner of a vocal version in the Five-O theme tune, sung by Sammy Davies Jr. The text are truly awful nevertheless the brilliant tune still wins through!

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The launch of the Mac mini in January started the latest industry of people that are designing methods to encourage the mini for use as being the first step toward a home theater set-up or as being a media server.

However, for those who would like to use their mini, or other reasonably powerful Mac as being a viewer and recorder for HDTV, there’s already an outstanding solution. Elgato’s EyeTV 500 is often a HDTV receiver which may tune into absolve to air and unencrypted cable (QAM) HDTV broadcasts and play them on the Mac or save them to a hard drive. However, in order to obtain the best from this, you will have to stop wasting time. On 1st July 2005, the Federal Communications Commission’s Broadcast Flag rule has effect and from that date onwards, all HDTV receivers shipped must adhere to the Flag, which will severely limit remarkable ability to record HDTV and constrain users’ capacity to view HDTV in terms that suits them.

Thankfully that units shipped before 1st July don’t need to listen for that Flag, even though the ruling takes effect. So if you’ve been planning on committing to the EyeTV 500, or any HDTV kit, now’s the time for it to undertake it.

The EyeTV 500 can be a silver box which connects for the Mac utilizing a FireWire cable and possesses ports within the back to get connected to an antenna and also a digital satellite tv box. No antenna is supplied, however, you may pick-up an inside HDTV antenna for around $30, and reports report that these work well with the EyeTV 500.

Elgato’s software allows you to watch journey air or cable HDTV and SDTV broadcasts and record these to your Mac’s disk drive. It hooks into TitanTV’s electronic program guide that makes establishing one-off and scheduled recordings quite easy. The EyeTV software also means that you can edit recorded programs and auto-detects the aspect ratio of any broadcast so that it can re-size the playing window appropriately. It’s an excellent solution for viewing and recording HDTV around the Mac.

However, there are a few caveats. The sheer level of data in an MPEG-2 encoded HDTV broadcast ensures that you’ll need acres of disk space to record it. Hourly of HDTV occupies about 7GB of disk space. And because of the way Elgato’s software stores recordings (in a archive folder) it’s not easy to split your recordings across multiple disks – eventhough it may be accomplished. Transcoding the HDTV recordings from other native MPEG-2 transport stream right into a format appropriate for watching on DVD or VCD is slow and not always successful. Also, displaying HDTV on any computer can be an incredibly processor intensive task in case you intend to make use of your Mac for watching HDTV, rather than just recording it to watch some other place, you’ll need a fast Mac, a dual processor G5 is about the only choice if you need smooth playback. In spite of this, should you just want to operate the Mac to record the HDTV, and G4 or G5 will perform the, so you can use that new Mac mini as HDTV PVR.

In any event, if you need to use your Mac to record HDTV, do it before July 1st, because after that, when the FCC does have it’s way, and Broadcast Flag becomes law, will probably be an entire different ball game.