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

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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.

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