[MacDV] Digital VCR Question

[Michael Katzman]

    Ed, check out the Formac Studio DV/TV.  It has the ability to be used as
a TV tuner and can also capture directly to the hard drive using the DV
codec.  This is great for high quality recordings, although it uses
approximately 12 gigs per hour.  The best thing about it is that it leaves
the material editable as DV footage which is compatible with iMovie or Final
Cut.  I'd suggest going with this one if you have a lot of hard drive space.

    Another alternative is the Eye TV from El Gato.  It is able to capture
in the MPEG 1 format, meaning it will be a much lower resolution and higher
compression than DV.  MPEG 1 however is not editable by anything I know of
unless you convert it to a higher quality format.  The good parts about it
are that if you don't need to worry about editing, a bunch of content should
be able to fit onto a CD without any extra work.  (Basically the file sizes
are much smaller)

    These boxes both have analog video inputs, but where EyeTV has Coax and
the standard RCA inputs for Video and Left/Right Audio, the Formac Studio
has Coax, RCAs, S-video, and an FM radio tuner.

Check them out:

Formac:
http://www.formac.com/p_bin/?cid=solutions_converters_studiodvtv

El Gato Eye-TV
http://www.elgato.com/eyeTV/index.html

Enjoy!


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Michael Katzman 
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On 2/27/03 3:47 PM, "edtuck at attbi.com" <edtuck at attbi.com> wrote:

> Hello All,
> 
> I'm very interested in the Digital VCR technology (Kinda like TIVO but more
> advanced).  Creative has a card (Video Blaster Digital VCR)
> http://www.americas.creative.com/products/product.asp?
> product=222&category=5&maincategory=5
> 
> that does exactly what I'm looking for but it is for the PC only.  Does anyone
> know of a card that allows you to do this with a G4?
> 
> Thanks for you help,
> Ed
> 
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