Tube Stick for Apple TV? is this a new wrinkle?

[samintx]

or have I just missed the chatter about it?

[onthedownlow]

Just another tuner for the Mac (computer)...nothing to do with Apple TV, from what I have read.

[samintx]

well, it says "watch" so I assume it isn't just a am/fm tuner.

[onthedownlow]

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.

[Filliam H. Muffman]

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/53...gital.html

My understanding is the ATV is not powerful enough to decode HDTV signals from the EyeTV Hybrid.

[BigGuynRusty]

"JAT" Just Another Tuner.
The brains is the software, I haven't found anything better than ElGato EyeTV.

BGnR

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[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-...-apple-tv/
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog...nts/12656/