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CaptyTV for Mac

Posted by pudge on from the ok-i-am-moving-to-japan-now dept.

rograndom writes "There's something very interesting on Apple's Japanese site. CaptyTV is part of Apple's 'Digital Hub', and it's a USB analog-to-digital video converter. A rough translatation from the site says talks about TiVo-like functionality, looking up program listings on the internet and recording at a certain time. It also talks about dumping your archived videos to DVD with the iMac's & PowerMac's SuperDrive. Sounds very cool, I hope it makes it over to this side of the world." And is that an external SuperDrive there on the sidebar?

3 of 26 comments (clear)

  1. Re:I hope you mean firewire by foobar104 · · Score: 3, Informative

    USB doesn't have nearly enough bandwith for video

    USB's 12 Mbps is plenty fast enough for compressed video, a la Tivo. Video compressed at 2 or 4 Mbps is acceptable for a PVR. At 8 Mbps, it's almost indistinguishable from uncompressed video to the untrained eye.

  2. Re: I pity the fool who speak without thinking by @madeus · · Score: 2, Informative

    Of course USB has enough bandwidth for video! 12MB is way more than enough.

    That aside, USB Video in converters have been avalible for years, litteraly. Don't you ever visit electronics shops?

    Electronics shops from PC World and Dixons to Radio Shack and Wallmart stock them...

    A quick search for the words "usb video capture" on Google throws up over five thousand results.

    Please think before you post and stop wasting bandwidth!

  3. Maybe by Lars+T. · · Score: 3, Informative

    the Formac Studio DV/TV(R) would be the better solution?

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    Lars T.

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