peripherals-misc
01/11/2005, 6:10pm, EST
Tuesday, January 11th
Elgato, ATI debut EyeTV Wonder USB analog TV tuner
Elgato and ATI today unveiled the jointly developed EyeTV Wonder USB 2.0 analog TV tuner for the Mac. EyeTV Wonder combines ATI TV tuner technology with the Elgato's EyeTV software to offer support for 240 MBit/sec of video recording using USB 2.0 connectivity. It offers a 125 channel analogy tuner, S-Video and composite video input, and EyeTV software, which features on-demand recording as well as remote programming via the included electronic program guide, TitanTV and other features such as video editing, digital stereo audio, and more. EyeTV Wonder will begin shipping at the end of January 2005 for $150. It will ship in North America, Europe and later this year in Asia-Pacific including Japan. It requires a G4/G5 Mac running Mac OS X 10.3 or higher.
Elgato today also added Clear QAM digital cable support to its EyeTV 500 HDTV product. The full-featured EyeTV 500 HDTV digital TV recorder supports digital unencrypted cable as well as digital terrestrial reception. Users can high-definition television live via free-to-air digital HDTV (ATSC) or unencrypted digital cable TV (Clear QAM) on the Mac. Users can also record television to the Mac's hard drive using MPEG-2 encoding as wel as manage their archives, pause live TV, edit saved content, export recordings, program recording, and archive programs to CD/DVDs. It is available for $350.
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You know. I could get a DVI Splitter, on one end of that cable, hook a Apple Svideo adapter and then hook the regular stereo jack with an adaptor to my tv. Then use the other end to hook up to the TV via DVI or VGA and use the Firewave for surround.
My desire is go get a good improvement of video upscaling to the fixed pixel size of my LCD tv using a peppy g4 chip and this hardware versus buying an expensive standalone Upscaler like the DVDO iScan HD.
I would only be paying a few hundred for the ATI El Gato thing... and this Firewave. But I would save a ton on the iScan HD, but again, performance and quality is important to me, but I could record my shows on the Mac Mini. Currently my Syntax Olevia 30, a killer tv after you tweak the color setting to get huge improvements over stock settings, does a good job at times, but upscaling is a known weakness on most Plasma and LCD tv's,... I have burned Tivo shows and played on a Denon 1910 dvi upscaling to 720p and seen an improvement that makes regular definition TV very cool on the big tv.
Sorry for getting off topic, but I figured folks reading this thread may have an idea. Basically, turn the Mac Mini into a iTunes, iPhoto, Web, Chat and Video Upscaling/processing hub. I will have to take some quality 640x480 video I have now and upconvert it on my mac by doing a stretched window and see roughly if it still looks good. We shall see. But honestly, I think this possible setup with quicktime will do me justice.
Nuff Said...
MacMoose