I want to use my iBook as a motitor for my new Nintendo Gamecube. The problem is iBook has not an analog video input. I want to know your experiences about external boxes (USB or Firewire) that let see a TV like signal in a window or in fullscreen, of course an high frame rate is required. I'm recently collecting information about an other solution. Can I use a DV video camera with analog input (as Canon MV 500i family) to convert an analog source (Gamecube) in a DV stream and see it in realtime on my iBook with a decent frame rate? Is it possible? And what video quality should I expect? Thank you much Seuck

Any device which converts the signal will have to be Firewire. USB's transfer rate is far too slow. All the devices that I've seen for real-time video transfer are about two hundred dollars. You might be better off getting a bigger TV if you want to spend that sort of money. ----chri.s-

i dont know why you want to do that, but you can go through a firewire digital video camera. you probbably have one if you have an ibook, i do. or a dv bridge