[P1] capture from tv

[Don Hinkle]

Anders, 
	I'm considering buying EyeTV and just looking for extra ways to justify
my decision to spend money at this time!
	Thanks for your detailed reply. I didn't realize that EyeTV lacks
quality? I thought there were different qualities of recording
available? Are you talking top quality or average, or wot?
	And, yes, I was thinking of digitizing capturing commercial videos.
Since they go to the television by same connection that carries cable,
why wouldn't the EyeTV capture directly? But maybe I don't understand
how EyeTV works.

-don

Anders Bogdan wrote:
> 
> 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.
> >>
> >