EyeTV is it any good ????

[gvegastiger]

It sounds like the eyetv is a PVR for your mac and not your TV. Having to encode it into h.264 first doesn't sound enticing at all.

I think I'll just buy an old windows machine and build it into a true PVR so I can just watch it on my TV without having to encode it to h.264.

 

[superleccy]

It sounds like the eyetv is a PVR for your mac and not your TV. Having to encode it into h.264 first doesn't sound enticing at all.

It's TV's fault for not supporting MPEG2. And EyeTV makes it really really easy... it's just slow.

I think I'll just buy an old windows machine and build it into a true PVR so I can just watch it on my TV without having to encode it to h.264.

Or how about a Mac Mini? Or even a dedicated PVR that with USB access to the hard drive (they do exist, I believe). Anything but a PC, please!

Seriously, I've been on the lookout for a Windows PVR solution for my girlfriend's Dell for some time now. I picked up an Hauppauge WinTV USB thing, expecting it to be like EyeTV but for a PC. But it's not... it's horrible to the point of being unusable. From what I read at the time, there's nothing else out there that's any better.

SL