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Therefore I don't mind having to do analog recording. I can't say I care much for HD quality, I still have an old non-HD CRT television. I am considering switching to DirecTV though, as the cable service has a number of issues. I've got Cablevision, which I assume is a Digital Cable Card service. Sorry I didn't realize what type of service I had mattered so much.

Eyetv hybrid usa tv#

I have only ever used digital TV feeds and even an old PowerMac G4 has no problems.ДЄh. If you use used analogue, and an old tuner like the EyeTV 250 (not plus), or the EyeTV Hybrid then your Mac would potentially struggle.

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If you are using a digital connection, then your old Mac mini will have no problems coping, and even if you use an analogue connection, as long as you use the EyeTV 250 Plus the work load is off-loaded to the tuner and again your Mac will be able to cope. Note: having to do an analogue capture from a set-top box is so 20th Century, furthermore it will never offer HD quality. As such again your only choice is to use an EyeTV 250 Plus to digitise the analogue output of a DirecTV or Dish TV set-top box. Here in Europe (and most of the rest of the world) all the satellite providers use the same basic standard of DVB-S and/or DVB-S2 and there are several suitable tuners available, however as far as I am aware, DirecTV and Dish use their own weird variations and as the US satellite TV market is minute compared to the global DVB-S/DVB-S2 market no suitable tuners are available. DirecTV or Dish TV (both are satellite systems). The EyeTV 250 Plus would do this job and would off-load the work of digitising the analogue output.Д¤. You only option here is to use the Cable providers set-top box and connect a Mac via an analogue tuner. Currently there is no Mac solution for this and unlikely to be so for the foreseeable future. Being digital all you need is the EyeTV 250 Plus, or the EyeTV Hybrid (USA), or you could get the HDHomeRun seeДў. As you appear to be American I can deduce that your TV service could be one of the following -ДЎ. You don't make it clear what kind of TV service you have.

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So therefore do you think the Mini could handle encoding MPEG2 in real time?ДЄlso, does anyone know if the EyeTV series will forbid recording programs that are 'copy protected' or somesuch? One of the main issues I've had with the DVD recorder is that almost everything on television is 'copy protected' and thus cannot be recorded.

My question is which one do you think I should get? Specifically, should I get a product with a built-in video processor or do you think the Mini can handle the video encoding itself? I don't believe the Mini can even play H.264 video but that shouldn't be an issue as I have no qualms with using MPEG2 or whatever. Anyway I'm thinking of getting one of the Elgato EyeTV products. The hard drive was recently upgraded when the stock one failed. It has a gig of memory, which is the max this one can take if I remember correctly. It's a fairly old mini, running a PowerPC G4 processor at 1.5GHz. Well the DVD recorder I bought was a huge disappointment, and I'll probably have a spare Mac Mini pretty soon so I got the idea to use this mini as a media center along with the television and a cable box.