Jeff Fay jeff.fay at uaf.edu
Miles- I've owned most of the TV card/box setups for Mac starting with the original Apple TV tuner in my old Performa 636. I currently have both a mytv/fm (from the same folks that make mytv2go) and an EyeTV. The EyeTV is far and away the better product. The MyTV/FM's television reception is all over the place. When I would change the channel on the MyTV I'd almost always have to adjust the picture settings. EyeTV costs a bit more but it gives you a Tivo-style hard disk-based recorder that is great. It also allows one to stop live TV (to get a sandwich or answer the call of nature) and then start it up right where you left off. When it's on it constantly writes the program being watched to disk and, depending on how big a buffer you give it - the default is 187 minutes, allows you to replay any program watched within that buffer time. If you have the choice, by my estimation, you'd be foolish to buy the mytv2go over EyeTV. Check it out at: http://www.elgato.com/eyeTV/ Just my $.02 Jeff Miles Statom wrote: >This question has probably been asked Ad nauseum but >after scouring the interne t I have been unable to >find a comprehensive review of mytv2go.What is the >general consensus? > >I actually want to use it more as a television with >maybe the occasional video capture.What reviews I've >read mention "fuzziness" when viewing live television. >Fuzziness how?Is the fuzziness an "apparent fuzziness" >do to suddenly switching from non-interlaced computer >monitor resolution to very poor interlaced television >resolution?(In that I mean if I put the computer >running mytv2go full screen and a regular television >of roughly the same size,side by side would the >quality be the same?) > >Or is it a throughput problem?If you were watching it >from 8feet away (regular TV distance)would it be >noticeable?Or should I just go for viewsonic VB50HRTV >tuner module?and would that eliminate the problem?Any >replies would be greatly appreciated.Thanks in >advance, > >Miles > > > >__________________________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo >http://search.yahoo.com > >---------- ><http://www.themacintoshguy.com/lists/MacDV.html>. >Send a message to <MacDV-DIGEST at themacintoshguy.com> to switch to the digest version. > > XRouter | Share your DSL or cable modem between multiple computers! >Dr. Bott | Now $139.99 <http://www.drbott.com/prod/xrouter.html> > > Cyberian | Support this list when you buy at Outpost.com! > Outpost | http://www.themacintoshguy.com/outpost.shtml > >MacResQ Specials: LaCie SCSI CDR From $99! PowerBook 3400/200 Only $879! >Norton AntiVirus 6 Only $19! We Stock PARTS! <http://www.macresq.com> > > -- Jeff Fay Media Services Technician Cooperative Extension Service College of Rural Alaska University of Alaska Fairbanks P.O. Box 756180 Fairbanks, Alaska 99775-6180 phone (907) 474-5349 fax (907) 474-5139 pager 1-(877) 705-6923 jeff.fay at uaf.edu http://www.uaf.edu/coop-ext ----- THE STONE AGE did not end because people ran out of stone. The Petroleum Age will not end because we run out of petroleum, but because we develop superior technologies. Fritjof Capra, physicist and philosopher, speaking at the Bioneers conference, October 2002