[P1] capture from tv

[Anders Bogdan]

EyeTV, better than a VCR? Way better. I hope never to use another vcr 
or tape. The video I want to save can be formatted for vcd and written 
to a cd. Lots of dvd players will play a vcd so, that's the plan for 
me. I haven't actually tried that yet as i still have lots of room on 
my 80G external fw drive.

For capturing from a vcr, I'd suggest getting a nice miniDV sony 
handycam. Plug the vcr into the camera via svideo and camera in your 
mac via firewire and capture with iMovie. Same with the dvd. I don't 
know if you will have macrovision problems - probably if its a movie 
you bought. But if you are converting your old vcr tapes to digital 
video, this is the way to go. Much better quality than the EyeTV.

  I think you can watch TV this way also (with the vcr hooked up to the 
miniDV into iMovie). Again better quality than EyeTV, but capturing 
will consume enormous amounts of disk. And all those fun EyeTV features 
are missing, scheduling and pausing and the like.

Are you considering buying an EyeTV or or do you already have one?
Anders


On Thursday, February 6, 2003, at 08:38  PM, Don Hinkle wrote:

> Thanks for chiming in, Anders.
> Do you feel it's a better tool than, say, a VCR?
> Can you capture from, say, a DVD or VCR that's playing through the 
> telly?
> -don
>
> Anders Bogdan wrote:
>>
>> probably a bunch of us on this list - its not too off topic. I hook it
>> up to my iBook so... what the heck, its more on topic than religion 
>> and
>> politics and top/bottom posting.
>>
>> I really like mine and I capture to local disk or to my external 10 
>> gig
>> firewire without problem and at the high resolution mode. I get some
>> banding in the display and recording, but can't tell if its 
>> compression
>> or a poor signal.
>>