Can I record television with an EyeTV Hybrid?

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	Can I record television with an EyeTV Hybrid?

Solution Yes, the EyeTV Hybrid can be used to record from an analog or digital video source.

Analog:

Tuner (antenna or cable)
Composite (with included adapter cable)
S-Video (with included adapter cable)

Digital:

Tuner
only ATSC from antenna on North American models,
only DVB-T (DTT) from antenna on European/Australian models
Clear QAM (North American model from 2008)

EyeTV Hybrid features an analog NTSC or PAL TV tuner that lets you watch live TV directly on the Mac, in the uncompressed YUV format. The EyeTV software encodes this YUV into MPEG-2 or MPEG-1, and the speed and quality of that encoding is entirely dependent on the power of your Mac.

You have three quality options for analog inputs: VideoCD, Standard and High. Only a Dual G5 or Core Duo can record the highest quality of MPEG-2.

EyeTV Hybrid also has a digital tuner (ATSC or DVB-T), which does not encode. It receives pre-encoded MPEG video directly from broadcasters, via an antenna. That content is in either SDTV or HDTV format.

You can switch between Analog and Digital in the Devices Preferences.

EyeTV Hybrid only has one tuner, that can receive either analog or digital. It cannot receive both at the same time. You can only watch or record one video source at a time.

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21 May 2008 11:32 PM

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