Here in Europe (and most of the rest of the world) all the satellite providers use the same basic standard of DVB-S and/or DVB-S2 and there are several suitable tuners available, however as far as I am aware, DirecTV and Dish use their own weird variations and as the US satellite TV market is minute compared to the global DVB-S/DVB-S2 market no suitable tuners are available. DirecTV or Dish TV (both are satellite systems). The EyeTV 250 Plus would do this job and would off-load the work of digitising the analogue output.Ĥ.
You only option here is to use the Cable providers set-top box and connect a Mac via an analogue tuner. Currently there is no Mac solution for this and unlikely to be so for the foreseeable future.
Being digital all you need is the EyeTV 250 Plus, or the EyeTV Hybrid (USA), or you could get the HDHomeRun seeĢ. As you appear to be American I can deduce that your TV service could be one of the following -ġ. You don't make it clear what kind of TV service you have. So therefore do you think the Mini could handle encoding MPEG2 in real time?Īlso, does anyone know if the EyeTV series will forbid recording programs that are "copy protected" or somesuch? One of the main issues I've had with the DVD recorder is that almost everything on television is "copy protected" and thus cannot be recorded. My question is which one do you think I should get? Specifically, should I get a product with a built-in video processor or do you think the Mini can handle the video encoding itself? I don't believe the Mini can even play H.264 video but that shouldn't be an issue as I have no qualms with using MPEG2 or whatever. Anyway I'm thinking of getting one of the Elgato EyeTV products. The hard drive was recently upgraded when the stock one failed. It has a gig of memory, which is the max this one can take if I remember correctly. It's a fairly old mini, running a PowerPC G4 processor at 1.5GHz.
Well the DVD recorder I bought was a huge disappointment, and I'll probably have a spare Mac Mini pretty soon so I got the idea to use this mini as a media center along with the television and a cable box.
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