EyeTV

I want EyeTV. Did not get it so I will buy it for myself. Thanks for the B-Day thing. I hate getting older. HATE IT! Matthew

or buy eyetv like me lol. ...

There is also a thread at MacOSXHints about using a component of the EyeTV pkg that will wake a sleeping Mac. ...

There are several options. Eskape labs makes a TV tuner with a USB interface and software so you can watch TV on your Mac. EyeTV turns your Mac into a digital TV recorder a al TIVO. Formac makes a FW video digitizer with TV tuner. It produces DV format files. These are rather large but are useful for some purposes. It is also rather expensive. There may be some others if...

I have been considering El Gato's EyeTV hardware to use my iMac as a PVR, but I am not too excited about the encoding and compression "options" that device has. ...

Hey ElDiabloConCaca, :) Yea, I am kickin the idea around for using a powermac as a DVD player, iTunes ( for all music to the main stereo ) and possibly even a TV tuner ( with EyeTV or Formac ) http://www.elgato.com/eyeTV/index.html http://www.formac.com/p_bin/?cid=solutions_converters_studiodvtv then control it all from the couch with a wireless keyboard and a GYRO...

While cool, EyeTV does the latter. ...

ramming you want to see, and watch it whenever you want to. Pause live television. Skip commercials. Record your favorite shows permanently using your CD burner. EyeTV will change the way you watch television. ...

well, it doesn't necessarily have to be cable, it could be VGA input. that ATI thing looks intruiging... i wonder what format it encodes in. also, has anyone had any experience with this: http://www.elgato.com/eyeTV/index.html ?