[CUBE] Throwing in the towel

[Rob In der Maur]

Jesse,

I'm using a Formac Studio TVR which has TV and FM functionality. Great 
for recording TV and radio shows. My brother has an Elgato EyeTV but it 
doesn't come close to the quality I get with the Formac. Unfortunately 
Formac is overall a not so great company (lousy support, lousy 
software, good hardware) so I rely on a freeware application named Vidi 
that does the recording, scheduling, etc. for me. Works great....

I guess you're in the US? In Europe, Elgato now announced two new 
devices that can record tv broadcasted through satellite or digital 
antenna's. Check out their web site. Both also use Firewire to capture 
the signal as the Formac Studio TVR does. So bear in mind it uses 
plenty of disk space (1 GB for each 5 minutes). I'm using an external 
Firewire disk for capturing the video in order to avoid heavy disk 
traffic on the same disk as where Mac OS X is running.

cheers
Rob

On Dec 3, 2003, at 14:53, mentholiptus wrote:

> Just ordered a dual 1.8 G5.
>
> I will now attempt to make my G4 Cube a home media center. Does anyone 
> have any information on:
>
> 1) Using your Cube to record television
>
> 2) Using a remote control to control your mac
>
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> jesse
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