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Tube Stick for Apple TV? is this a new wrinkle? - samintx - 01-27-2008
or have I just missed the chatter about it?
Re: Tube Stick for Apple TV? is this a new wrinkle? - onthedownlow - 01-27-2008
Just another tuner for the Mac (computer)...nothing to do with Apple TV, from what I have read.
Re: Tube Stick for Apple TV? is this a new wrinkle? - samintx - 01-27-2008
well, it says "watch" so I assume it isn't just a am/fm tuner.
Re: Tube Stick for Apple TV? is this a new wrinkle? - onthedownlow - 01-27-2008
Just another TV tuner for the Mac (computer)...nothing to do with Apple TV, from what I have read.
...sorry, I just figured based on the article and your topic title that when I said "tuner"....a TV tuner was implied here.
Re: Tube Stick for Apple TV? is this a new wrinkle? - Filliam H. Muffman - 01-27-2008
Nothing really new. Elgato has had a HDTV tuner for a while and just added QAM to it. Lots of retailers still have the old one in stock without QAM (like this one).
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/539859-REG/Elgato_Systems__EyeTV_Hybrid_USB_Digital.html
My understanding is the ATV is not powerful enough to decode HDTV signals from the EyeTV Hybrid.
Re: Tube Stick for Apple TV? is this a new wrinkle? - BigGuynRusty - 01-27-2008
"JAT" Just Another Tuner.
The brains is the software, I haven't found anything better than ElGato EyeTV.
BGnR
Re: Tube Stick for Apple TV? is this a new wrinkle? - Article Accelerator - 01-28-2008
[quote Filliam H. Muffman]My understanding is the ATV is not powerful enough to decode HDTV signals from the EyeTV Hybrid.
I think the EyeTV Hybrid just passes the HDTV datastream unaltered. The EyeTV software would need to transcode this stream to H.264 at 1280 x 720p24 at an average bitrate of 5,000 kbps in order to make it Apple TV compatible. I'm not sure if the new EyeTV 3 software does this.
http://faq.elgato.com/index.php/faq/more/513
http://faq.elgato.com/index.php/faq/more/510/
http://www.pvrwire.com/2007/01/13/eyetv-will-work-with-apple-tv/
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/12656/