Hi, I did the same thing, as my original media centre pc started falling over about 6 months ago. I've had a macbook pro since the beginning of the year, and got an EyeTV when I got my macbook. The software isn't at all accessible with VO. You can watch TV, but you can't set up recordings or anything like that. You can't go through your list of recordings, although you can find them in Finder, open them and they will play. That's rather an annoying way of doing it though.
I bought a mac mini, which I put windows 7 on, and it is my media centre machine now. Although windows 7 has some strange issue with losing tv signal. For example, I'll get a message which says "No tv signal to record *** on channel 22. Reschedule the recording when you have checked your signal". If you go and check, you can watch channel 22, and the show actually does get recorded. From what I have been able to gather, it is a documented issue, which just hasn't been resolved yet. I'd love to see EyeTV become accessible, because it does in deed look like a cool programme, and unlike media centre, it seems to save in a standard format--mp4 I think. So you could watch it anywhere. Good luck, and if you find anything different, please, please let me know! I believe there is another mac alternative to eyetv, but can't remember the name of it, and it seems pretty hard to find. Vaughn. On 26/11/2010, at 10:55 PM, garth Humphreys wrote: > Hi All > > We currently have a Windows PC and have it connected to our main TV. We > constantly use it for a DVR. It has a TV tuner card and with Windows Media > Centre and the remote control, it works really well, especially for my > sighted family. We use a blue tooth keyboard and mouse for when the computer > is being a computer so to speak. > > I am interested in setting up a similar system with a Mac mini. I have full > in love with my iPad but have only briefly played with a Mac it the Apple > store. I am sure that the Mac with VO would be sufficient for me as a > computer but do not know how well it would go in replacing the DVR > functionality that we have with our current Windows machine. > > The Apple store sells a dongle that has duel TV tuners called an Eye TV. It > comes with software that seems similar to Media Centre so on the face of it > this should meet mine and my families needs however I have a few questions. > > firstly has anyone had any experience with such a system? Does VO work well > with the Eye TV interface? > > The Eye TV dongle plugs into the mini through one of its USB ports and is > able to record two channels at once. This seems to me to be a lot of data to > try and fit through one USB 2 port. The TV card is internal on our current > machine. Does anyone know if this is a valid concern? May be USB is able to > take two HD video streams. > > We have more then enough good high def digital TV content on free to air in > Australia and don't have access to hulu or net flicks here so I really need > the Mac mini to be able to fully replace the DVR functionality of our > current machine before proposing the switch to my wife. > > I hope someone can let me know their experiences. > > Thanks, > Garth > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
