It'll work, but you essentially always have the EyeTV set to AUX and record whatever's coming out of the cable box. You would have to hook your cable box to the A/V input on the EyeTV 200 and bypass it's internal tuner. If I bought the EyeTV, would I still be able to record from the movie channels somehow? All the movie channels though are above channel 124. Will it work for recording my digital channels? Right now I have a digital box with my cable company for non-HD digital TV. This seems like what I've been looking for. Indeed 1050 is 30 lines shy of the 1080i standard, but what would happen is that the image would get scaled down to fit, or it would simply drop the 50 lines from the top and bottom. LCD screens are horrible if driven at the wrong resolution. Anyway, if your display is a LCD display that has a maximum resolution of 1680 x 1050, you should always use it at that resolution and have the software scale the image to the appropriate size. The interlaced signals are much more difficult, because you will need to deinterlace in order to avoid combing artefacts. So you see 720p display is quite straightforward on a computer display. If you would display a 720p image on your 768 lines display it would just pad the image with 24 lines of black above and below. So I guess the point is what the hell good is all this HD talk if no one is displaying a true (480p doesn't count) HD image? Unless you have your Mac hooked up to an HD ready display (TV).Ĭomputer displays are ALWAYS progressive, so that is why apple doesn't mention it. I got 768.but that's 4:3 (display ratio).not 6:9 (or there abouts.which is considered wide screen). Even if they can, I see no where in my prefs where I can have 720 horizontal lines of resolution displayed. Are they really watching whatever they're watching in HD? Only if the Apple displays can display a progressively scanned image.can they? I looked on the Apple site and there is no mention of it. I've seen where some are saying they're watching HD content on Imac's (!) that.if they have the 20" display I have, is the same resolution that I have with my Cinema display. The other standard is 720p (progressively scanned). ![]() Well 1050 is 30 lines short of one of the HD standards.1080i (which stands for interlaced). My 20" Apple display has a max resolution of 1680 x 1050. ![]() We need to do a FAQ for the mac achia, I think. So when we talk about HD, do we mean exclusively, MPEG 2 TS? Or does HD also include stuff like DiVX HD (as mentioned on ) or WM HD? I was under the impression that we could get compressed HD streams, like WM HD content. Why would one need to playback uncompressed MPEG2 HD files on any consumer PC? If we're talking about over 500megs just for 5 minutes of video? Right, that's a compressed file, not the original, uncompressed MPEG-2 TS. It's the raw MPEG-2 transport stream.Įdit: I have a smallville episode, encoded in xvid, 960x528 (original res.) with AC3 audio, and it plays fine on my Powerbook 1.33ghz G4. Question still stands however: Is there any HD content/samples available on line that one can test on their mac? We can hope, though.ĮDIT: Added some details, corrected some spelling. Now, if they would've just given us an upgraded EyeHome that would play HD content from the EyeTV 500, there would be a ~$500 (for now, counting their discounts) Mac-compatible, cable-ready HDTV solution without Broadcast Flag. Not all cable providers may support Clear QAM, and not all cable providers provide unencrypted content even if they support QAM.Īlso, they have $20-$50 discounts across the board (for the US store, at least). From the readme:Īfter updating the EyeTV 500 firmware as outlined above, the tuner module in EyeTV 500 is now capable of receiving unencrypted digital cable ('Clear QAM') in addition to off-the-air ATSC HDTV and SDTV broadcasts. ![]() The big news, IMHO, is that the EyeTV 500 (their firewire HDTV receiver) has a free firmware upgrade that allows it to tune Clear QAM cable content. Not sure it's worth $100, but it's half-price for right now (or free with the purchase of the EyeHome, EyeTV 200, EyeTV 200 or EyeTV Wonder). They also intro'd EyeConnect, which is a software product that will enable any UPnP AV device to stream all your digital content. Looks like the logical successor to the original EyeTV USB, and it cost the zilch in R&D. No new EyeHome, but they are now pimping the ATI TV Wonder USB which comes bundled with their EyeTV software.
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