[MacDV] Re:

[Erica Sadun]

>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.

These days, I'd lean towards a Canopus ADVC-100 firewire
converter. I'd hook it up to a VCR and watch TV using HackTV
(and record with MPEG-4).  Then you could use the ADVC-100
for all your other video needs as well...

-- E