[G4] tv on a G4

[Mel Krewall]

Renita,
There are also two PCI TV cards - Alchemy TV by Miglia (at OWC 
[macsales.com] among others) and Televio by Meilenstein (at drbott.com, 
perhaps others). I have been exploring this as well. I finally bought 
an EyeTV on eBay because it has had the longest to let the software 
mature. I was leaning toward the Alchemy card, because the PCI format 
appealed more to me than the USB external setup of the EyeTV, but I 
read on xlr8yourmac.com that the software still leaves much to be 
desired, as I recall the first few versions of EyeTV did. The EyeTV 
software has improved quite a bit since it was first introduced 
according to what I have read. (I just got my EyeTV today and haven't 
even hooked it up yet.)
As far as I can tell, the PCI cards will produce better quality video. 
That is not really my primary concern, as I will mainly use it to watch 
sports while I'm doing other things at my computer. I don't plan on 
recording a lot of it, burning to disk and watching it on TV. If you 
want to do a lot of recording and burning and want the best quality, 
the Alchemy is probably better suited than the EyeTV according to my 
research.  I understand that EyeTV has Toast integration, making it 
easy to burn your recorded shows to disk. I'm not sure about the 
others.  I don't know anything about MyTV/fm, but ATI also has an 
external USB TV pod than only works in OS 9/Classic, so I ruled it out 
immediately.
Xlr8yourmac.com has lots of reader reports on EyeTV and some on Alchemy 
TV, so you might try to continue your research there.
Hope this helps,
Mel


"It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are 
still rolling."
  ~ Mark Twain


On Feb 6, 2004, at 5:42 PM, Renita Williams wrote:

> I am interested in watching television on my mac while I work and I am 
> currently loooking at two products:  MyTV/fm and EyeTV USB.  Does 
> anyone use either of these products?  Perhaps there is another option 
> I am unaware of.
>
> I have done a Google search and these are the two products I found.
>
> Dual 1GHZG4,  10.2.6, 175 GB memory.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Renita
>