Re: tv on an imac and record to dvd

[Jim]

Steve, it's good to know that you had good success with your Dazzle 
Hollywood DV Bridge.  I had a horrible experience with that same 
device.  There were sound synch problems, and after 5-15 minutes, the 
'vertical lock' would begin to slip (a horizontal bar across the 
screen, with the bottom of the picture showing up at the top of the 
screen, or vice versa).  These two issues made it almost impossible to 
get acceptable captures of more than a 5 minute sample of video.  I 
never got a single movie captured, and got rid of the Dazzle in 
disgust.

I've since tried the MyTV/MyVideo device, a USB solution, and suffered 
the quality problems noted by another poster.  The ElGato EyeTV product 
looked nice at MacWorld Expo, when I saw it demonstrated, but it too is 
USB.   I've been intrigued by the product Canopus (ADVC-300) offers, 
which promises image-enhancement technologies specifically aimed at VHS 
restoration, but at around $500+, it's out of my reach at the moment.  
Their $500 MPEGproMVR furthermore offers real-time MPEG-2 compression, 
alas the software required for it is non-Macintosh.

I'm still waiting for someone--anyone--to make an MPEG-2 equivalent of 
TeraOptix's TERAPIN, which I do own and enjoy, but which only makes 
VCDs.  Note that I've found the VCDs from this product are of really 
nasty quality when a previously compressed signal is re-encoded, such 
as the one from my satellite receiver.  I sure wish my satellite 
receiver had a DV-out port on it.  :-)

Good luck.

--Jim.

Steve Fuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 I will note that I have used the Dazzle Hollywood DV Bridge going 
from my Tivo to my Powerbook with good results. Use the Svideo input 
if you can. iMovie recognizes the Dazzle as a camera. I hit play and 
then start the capture in imovie and let it run until the program is 
finished


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