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TV tuner card for OS X

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steeleclipse

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Nov 7, 2002
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Well is there??? i cant seem to find any os x compatible... would the ati cards work? i know the remote does

i know there is the eyetv and tvr and stuff like that, but i just want a basic tuner card and decent tuning software with basic pvr functions... any ideas???

also, i noticed that on the apple store site, you can get an svideo adapter that only works on a G5 (i didnt believe it would only work on a G5, but they swear up and down it wont work on my MDD G4) does anybody know of an inexpensive adapter for my G4????

Thanks guys :D
 
I've successfully used a generic PCI card, with the Philips chipset. However, while the card works, it's a nightmare to find TV-viewing software to go with it. I tried a demo version of Televio (now called AlchemyTV), and that worked perfectly - except the company refused to sell me the full version!
 
thats what i thought might be the case (card works, software hard to come by)

ati uses a philips tuner doesnt it???
 
So, can you or not use a pc tv card and use the televio/alchemyTV software with and get it to work? That's what I like to know! Tvcards for a pc a really cheap and work pretty good. I have bought one for my G3 B&W and it s*cked. Only could get black and white with a bad reception and no sound... It was a stick on card on a voodoo 3 vidcard, a macpaloma it was called.
 
Originally posted by Fukui
www.miglia.com
A little expensive, and the name is kinda wierd, but they seem to be good cards (the only ones)...
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Ha! Watch TV in the dock! That would be really fun for about 30 seconds or so... but for $149 you could just buy a TV. But I guess if you want to record TV on your Mac, this is the ticket.
 
Shame they don't have a firewire version for portable users like myself who would like to use it at home or in the office. Even if it was a larger version, I could stuff it into a corner, and run a longer FW cable to my PB.
 
Powerbook?

What's the best version out there for a powerbook though? I want to bring in video into the PB from TV sources including games and the like and I have yet to find the best solution for a PB.
 
Originally posted by Dreadnought
So, can you or not use a pc tv card and use the televio/alchemyTV software with and get it to work? That's what I like to know! Tvcards for a pc a really cheap and work pretty good. I have bought one for my G3 B&W and it s*cked. Only could get black and white with a bad reception and no sound... It was a stick on card on a voodoo 3 vidcard, a macpaloma it was called.
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I've never heard of a Voodoo card but I did that on my B&W G3 with an ATI Xclaim VR card. (only works in 9 but i got 640x480 and sound. it ran through Apple Video Player.
 
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