So I got a Mac
12-20-2006, 09:35 PM
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MikeyCB is correct. There are no digital/HD tuners available in Canada because we live in a socialist society which loves it's monopolies. In the US they have CableCard and there are numerous CC compatible devices. Here we have the CRTC aka Cable and Telephone Industry Association forcing us to rent total crap fully linear PVR boxes for $25/month from our friendly cable company "for our own protection". In comparison the cost of renting a CableCard decoder is $3/month.
What Mannn is talking about is connecting the totally crap cable box you are forced to rent from "the Man" to watch HDTV to the computer using analog signals aka Channel 3 just like a TV set. You can't change channels or anything like that under software control.
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Getting HDTV signals "over-the-air" by antenna on your roof. You'll get a few that way if you wish to go to the trouble and don't want to use cable.
The EyeTV Hybrid has no MPEG encoder/decoder, it does that in software (your computer's CPU). The EyeTV 250 has the onboard MPEG hardware so it doesn't take up your computers CPU power to display video. Watching the EyeTV 250 on my MacBook Pro Core Duo uses 14% of the CPU time. I'm not sure what the Hybrid model uses, I only have the 250.
Note the is no ITV guide service for Canada so you'll need to program it manually (channel+time)
What Mannn is talking about is connecting the totally crap cable box you are forced to rent from "the Man" to watch HDTV to the computer using analog signals aka Channel 3 just like a TV set. You can't change channels or anything like that under software control.
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Getting HDTV signals "over-the-air" by antenna on your roof. You'll get a few that way if you wish to go to the trouble and don't want to use cable.
The EyeTV Hybrid has no MPEG encoder/decoder, it does that in software (your computer's CPU). The EyeTV 250 has the onboard MPEG hardware so it doesn't take up your computers CPU power to display video. Watching the EyeTV 250 on my MacBook Pro Core Duo uses 14% of the CPU time. I'm not sure what the Hybrid model uses, I only have the 250.
Note the is no ITV guide service for Canada so you'll need to program it manually (channel+time)
12-21-2006, 05:50 AM
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Yeah I ordered the 250 as well after doing a bit of reading. Bit bigger it seems but who cares.
Also to see what you'll get in your area you can use this.
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Also to see what you'll get in your area you can use this.
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12-21-2006, 06:04 AM
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Originally Posted by cthree,Dec 21 2006, 01:35 AM
Getting HDTV signals "over-the-air" by antenna on your roof. You'll get a few that way if you wish to go to the trouble and don't want to use cable.
The EyeTV Hybrid has no MPEG encoder/decoder, it does that in software (your computer's CPU). The EyeTV 250 has the onboard MPEG hardware so it doesn't take up your computers CPU power to display video. Watching the EyeTV 250 on my MacBook Pro Core Duo uses 14% of the CPU time. I'm not sure what the Hybrid model uses, I only have the 250.
Note the is no ITV guide service for Canada so you'll need to program it manually (channel+time)
The EyeTV Hybrid has no MPEG encoder/decoder, it does that in software (your computer's CPU). The EyeTV 250 has the onboard MPEG hardware so it doesn't take up your computers CPU power to display video. Watching the EyeTV 250 on my MacBook Pro Core Duo uses 14% of the CPU time. I'm not sure what the Hybrid model uses, I only have the 250.
Note the is no ITV guide service for Canada so you'll need to program it manually (channel+time)
We'll see how soon that happens...
12-22-2006, 11:31 AM
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sure, you have a student card? you get a discount. Sucks here you have to have a number or show ID, in the US you just have to know the name of a school to get the discount.