eyeTV wonder usb 2.0

[andrewfee]

I was also kind of disappointed with the quality when playing games but then I bought some svideo cables off of ebay. The difference in quality is huge. Everything is much sharper and clearer.

That looks excellent! How does it look fullscreen?

Although I have a great 28" CRT in my room, I'd rather use my 17" Powerbook LCD.

 

[ziutek]

That looks excellent! How does it look fullscreen?

Although I have a great 28" CRT in my room, I'd rather use my 17" Powerbook LCD.

It looks pretty good in fullscreen on my 30" cinema display, that is of course when I play seven feet away from the monitor. I stretched the video to mimick the dimensions of your powerbook's display and it looks fine.

 

[dirk-a-lurk]

It looks pretty good in fullscreen on my 30" cinema display, that is of course when I play seven feet away from the monitor. I stretched the video to mimick the dimensions of your powerbook's display and it looks fine.

I'm considering purchasing a 30" HD cinema display...and was wondering how it looks full screen using an EyeTv...Does it lag, etc...

I currently have a 1.33 G4 Powerbook 17", which runs my EyeTv 500 HD content fairly well (despite ElGato's website saying a dual G5 is required), but to power the 30" display I'm considering upgrading to the dual 2.5 G5 Power Mac with requisite upgraded video card or possibly the new 1.67 G4 Powerbook 17" with dual-link DVI.

To rationalize the $3K for the 30" cinema display (not to mention the new PowerMac/Powerbook)...I want to make sure this thing doubles as a TV...so any comments are very much appreciated. Thanks!

 

[JeffTL]

I have pretty good luck using my digitization setup (Sony stereo VCR and Media Converter DVMC-DA2) as a TV, with Video Viewer as the display app on a 1.6 GHz iMac. Need to run cable to that VCR, though; analog VHF antenna in the basement = sometimes poor quality, but usually good.

Can't use it as a DVR, but that's why I have a TiVo on my real TV.

 

[oikonisus]

eyeTV activation key

Is anyone willing to post an eyeTV activation key? Or is there any free tv tuner software for Mac? I already have the ATI TV Wonder and now I have a Mac, but I can't find ANY software compatible with both, except for eyeTV, and there doesn't seem to be any way to buy a software license.

 

[Uma888]

i will be purchasing a new powerbook (when they arrive) and will be upgrading the ram to 1gb (and vRAM to 128mb), and i will purchase a 23" or 30" cinema display afterwards,

this would eliminate the need for me of having my 21" combi tv

(i also run my xbox and gamecube on the tv)

would this setup be alright? i.e. no latencies between console and mac?

this would be wonderfull if it could

im thinkin of getting the eyetv home edition

PS: this would make switching to the mac the best thing since i installed linux on my box

thanks in advance for all your help

 

[andrewfee]

i will be purchasing a new powerbook (when they arrive) and will be upgrading the ram to 1gb (and vRAM to 128mb), and i will purchase a 23" or 30" cinema display afterwards,

this would eliminate the need for me of having my 21" combi tv

(i also run my xbox and gamecube on the tv)

would this setup be alright? i.e. no latencies between console and mac?

this would be wonderfull if it could

im thinkin of getting the eyetv home edition

PS: this would make switching to the mac the best thing since i installed linux on my box

thanks in advance for all your help

Only the USB2 eyeTv is relatively lag-free and suitable for gaming, the others are only suited to things that don't rely on reaction time.

If you're getting an external display, I would highly recommend a VD-Z3 which converts progressive signals to vga. This is completely lag-free, as it's just going directly into your monitor and requires no real processing. (if any?)

Obviously you can't record from it though, so it may not be suitable.

Not too sure what you mean about purchasing a "new powerbook when they arrive" though, as they new ones just came out about 2 months ago, and I wouldn't expect another update for at least 4 months.

 

[Mechcozmo]

Is anyone willing to post an eyeTV activation key?

Piracy is not permitted on these forums. Only on April Fools day. But even then it is piracy with real pirates-- not with other people's software and money.

 

[ravenvii]

If you're getting an external display, I would highly recommend a VD-Z3 which converts progressive signals to vga. This is completely lag-free, as it's just going directly into your monitor and requires no real processing. (if any?)

The design of that site is bad. I couldn't find any pricing information, and cannot figure out how to buy the product. The Buy Now! section has no information on how to actually buy it.

Seems they actually don't want you to buy their product. They've succeed with flying colors if that's the case.

Back to the eyeTV Wondder, a benefit is that you can watch TV/record/play games/whatever and do whatever you want on the computer at the same time. You can run it in a window located anywhere on the screen, you can expose and see what's going on, then go back to work. You can run it in full screen. You can...

God I'm salivating over the eyeTV Wonder. I'm gonna buy it as soon as funds allow.

 

[Skull21]

Are games supposed to look blurry when playing through the eyetv wonder usb 2.0? There also seems to be some lag when playing Halo, anyone else have this problem with it?

 

[Skull21]

Are games supposed to look blurry when playing through the eyetv wonder usb 2.0? There also seems to be some lag when playing Halo, anyone else have this problem with it?

Anyone?