Mac PVR Coming Soon

mgrochmal writes "One of the items bouncing around the rumor mills is EyeTV, a TiVo-like device for Apple computers. Made by El Gato Software, it hooks up to one of the Mac's USB ports and captures MPEG-1 video, with a choice between a VideoCD-compatible recording, or a higher quality recording. You can read about a preview build of it, as well as read a comparison between it and a TiVo." It doesn't come with a hard drive; and here I was, thinking I wouldn't fill up my new 160GB hard drive any time soon. Silly me.

Comments

Whatever.

[supabeast!]

Great, now I can watch OS X render television just as slowly as it renders any other 2D graphics. Lame-assed quartz...

Re:Not a Rumor

[Asprin]

Well, I hate to break it to you, but this is not a rumor. See: http://www.elgato.com/eyeTV/index.html [elgato.com] for more details.

Ok, so if it's designed to be plugged into a Mac, why does it have a USB port instead of FireWire? Don't tell me Apple's given up already!

Will everyone please STFU about USB already?

[billybob]

Why not include firewire? Hmm, let's see. Oh, that's right, because there's ABSOLUTELY NO FUCKING POINT.

USB cant handle this bandwith? Did you know that 1+1=2? Do any of you linux fucks know how to read? IT COMPRESSES THE GOD DAMN DATA BEFORE IT SENDS IT TO THE MAC! WOW, IMAGINE THAT! The website says about 650 megs per hour. That's 10 megs per minute. Thats one meg every six seconds. You think USB can't handle that? Christ. I hate all of you.

Yah, firewire would definitely be a requirement if this thing had a hard drive and stored the video there, and then you had to transfer it to a mac to burn it. But guess what? That's not how it works! It compresses and sends it to the mac AS YOURE RECORDING! WOW IMAGINE THAT!

What's it matter anyways, none of you linux fucks own a mac. So you can all blow my fully erect cock. Fuckers.