On Jan 18, 10:18 pm, Paul <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a 500 MHz Pismo, and I thinking of trying to watch TV with it. > I could either get a USB 2 and a USB TV tuner, or I could get a > firewire tuner. > > Does anyone have any recommendations?
The firewire would be one less part. If something stops working you have to figure out whether its the tuner or the usb card. And firewire is designed for digital video, USB can be borderline in some cases even though the speeds look the same. Make sure there are drivers for MacOS and matching the version of OS and of CPU (might require G4 or Intel) before you buy. For HD 1280x720p hmmm, I am not sure how well that would go. my 1.5 ghz g4 (4x AGP + 64MB ATI 9200) will play some hd video and my 550G4 pismo will not (using VLC which is like 2x fast QuicktimePlayer). BUT with your adapter you are getting a direct feed of some sort so may be OK (mfg should give hardware rqmnts) There is like DigitalVideo support in MacOS and players and compressors etc. Don't know much about it. There were also "Zoom Video" pc cards which took video inputs (back in the old days composite (VCR quality) or S-Video (DVD quality) not HD, but you could use regular video equipment with it.
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