Well maybe I'll come clean
I bought a Miglia DVB-T 'tv-mini' tuner and the elgato eyetv software about a month ago; it's done me proud for watching tv on my powerbook. However, I was really interested in seeing if folks have made the step of replacing their 'main' tv with a mac, and to see what those suggestions were without any preconceptions of what my existing hardware was.
On the finer details: eyetv does seem to do the trick, but it doesn't really integrate that cleanly with frontrow. Other options (
mediacentral,
centerstage, etc..) just don't cut it. The best I can imaging would be eyetv / frontrow with
RemoteBuddy to do the switching. Ideally I'd like to ditch iDVD and replace it with VLC, but I can't see a simple way of doing that in a manner that any idiot can pick up the remote, wave it around, and get the tv to work.