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Tuesday, Jan 11, 2005 6:10pm
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. |