[G4] tv on a G4

[Mel Krewall]

I don't have room to set a 13" TV on my computer desk and I don't want 
anything that big. Also, you can't really divide your attention between 
two separate screens. A window on my Mac is the perfect compromise.
Mel

"The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody would put a 
flagstick on top."
~ Pete Dye
On Feb 7, 2004, at 3:39 PM, rich northouse wrote:

> Hi Guys,
>
> Maybe I am missing something, but what is wrong with an $80 13" TV set 
> w/video jacks? Go up to a hundred and you can get TV and built-in 
> VCR!!
>
>
> rich
>
>
> On Feb 7, 2004, at 11:54 AM, Daniel Brieck wrote:
>
>> Every TV recorded is going to have the problem of not being able to 
>> record and watch TV at the same time, unless the product has more 
>> than one TV tuner. Here is another suggestion and option if any of 
>> you have a somewhat powerful  PC box laying around, you can put it to 
>> work for recording TV and then watch the recorded programs on your 
>> mac using quicktime. All you need is a pc with a  Pentium III 600 MHz 
>> and Windows XP for best results (which is still not great) but don't 
>> try to make a TV recorder with Windows 98 it will not run more than a 
>> few days. Once you have the PC all you need then is a PCI / AGP tuner 
>> card. I would recommend an ATI all in wonder 128 card, because their 
>> cheap ($40.00 - 50.00)  and work reasonably well.
>>
>> This is a good solution because it gets the work of recording TV off 
>> your mac and on to another piece of hard ware, which is how it should 
>> be. The work of recording and encoding TV takes a good deal of power 
>> and should not be happening  with your Mac's  precious CPU cycles, 
>> which in most cases we need every-bit of  to get stuff done. A more 
>> ideal situation would be an independent set top Tv box that records 
>> TV and stores TV shows locally; however, unlike a Tivo this would  
>> allow you to also use your computer to configure the box and watch / 
>> transfer recorded shows to networked computers.
>>
>> So an independent PC box is almost ideal for recording TV. Also if 
>> you don't want to use Windows OS to do the recording a Linux OS can 
>> be made to do the job. However, I have no idea how hard it would be 
>> to get such a product running with any measure of success. I would 
>> even like to do this to my own current set-up to drop the Windows OS, 
>> because of its annoying quarks. (Ex's 1. Must enable / disable 
>> windows folder file sharing on a daily basis in order to successfully 
>> share /watch the programs recorded on a networked computer (mac or 
>> pc) 2. TV recording Stops with the ATI software after the Win Xp os 
>> has been running more than 18 Days, so must restart before then) As 
>> of yet though I have not had the time to try to get TV recording to 
>> happen on a Linux OS. It will probably not be easy , because getting 
>> stuff to work on linux can be a challenge.
>>
>> This is yet another way to watch recorded TV on your mac. Here is all 
>> you need
>> 1 PC with a  Pentium® III or similar processor (~ 500MHz or better) 
>> (128 MB of ram or better) (10 GB  or better Hard drive) with a open 
>> PCI slot or upgradeable AGP slot.
>>
>> 2. A TV tuner card that supports TV recording  and Scheduling( Eg ATI 
>> All in wonder 128 or better)
>>
>> 3. High Speed Network connection to your mac and other computers
>>
>> Dan Brieck Jr.
>>
>> On Feb 7, 2004, at 11:29 AM, Renita Williams wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Jim,
>>>
>>> You are the first person to mention not being able to tape and view 
>>> at the same time.  I wonder if this is a drawback of Formac TVR 
>>> also.  I am now considering either the fire wire version of EyeTV or 
>>> Formac.
>>>
>>> Renita
>>>
>>> On Saturday, February 7, 2004, at 11:21  AM, Jim Burger wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I use Eye TV on a Sawtooth
>>>
>>>>  I've found no way to 'tape' and view at the same time though.
>>>
>>>> I can highly recommend it. Although I saw they have a new product 
>>>> out that works with fire wire(don't know if it also works with USB) 
>>>> that you might also check out.
>>>>
>>>> Jim Burger
>>>