CaptyTV for Mac

Posted by pudge on Sunday April 14, 2002 @11:14PM 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?

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Re:I hope you mean firewire by foobar104 · 2002-04-15 02:14 · 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.
Maybe by Lars+T. · 2002-04-15 02:52 · Score: 3, Informative

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

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