[iBook] Recording TV to Mac

[Jim Manley]

Thanks for the info. I am beginning to think this project will have  
to wait until I get more money. I had no idea it was so costly.
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James Paul Manley
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On May 12, 2006, at 5:05 PM, charlesp at ksu.edu wrote:

> If you're wanting to capture video, then you need something between  
> the
> video source (Direct TV, for instance) and the computer that captures
> video and digitizes it. I have an AlchemyTV DVR capture card in my G5
> that does a terrific job. I capture in Motion JPGA at 640 by 480  
> and it
> looks pretty good--no dropped frames, sound in synch and so on. The
> stuff I want to "archive," I send into iDVD and burn it. The other
> stuff, I watch and then discard. Much like I would imagine one  
> would do
> with a Tivo. The files are somewhat hefty at around 6Gb per half-hour,
> so I store on an external hard drive.
>
> Since you're trying to get it into an iBook, there's no slot for a  
> video
> capture card, but Elgato makes a video capture box called EyeTV or
> something like that. It needs USB 2.0, I'm sure or you're going to be
> dropping frames like crazy. There are other brands including one from
> the folks who made my video capture card, Miglia. They make a device
> called EvolutionTV, that grabs and digitizes through USB 2.0. Here's
> the link: http://www.miglia.com/products/video/evolutiontv/index.html
>
> Or, you could get Tivo.
>
> Or, you could (as has been suggested) get a DVD burner. But unless you
> want to have a bunch of once-watched DVDs laying around, the video
> capture method might work better. Of course, your mileage may vary.
>
> Charles Pearce
> charlesp at ksu.edu
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