Specifically, can anyone make a comparison between one and an Eyetv
400 on a Mac?
Seems to me that Eyetv and a Mac are a great combination, but the
moron^d^d^d^d^d^d^d developer that came up with requiring a resample
to burn saved content to DVD needs their head read.
Well, that'd be the broadcast engineers designing the standard for
broadcast. Or the DVD engineers designing the standard for non-linear
playback. Both designing for their own worlds, which are slightly
incompatible. Somewhere, someone has to put the rubber to the road
and convert between them. Designing the DVD and thinking ahead 10
years to 'hey, people might want to write transport streams to disk
that they've downloaded from one of the 7 or so digital TV standards'
is a bit difficult...
If you think calculating bitrates is bad, you should try working with
film and TV and dealing with things like frame rates like 29.97, 3:2
conversion and other horrors.
For example here's the Adobe Premiere PDF technical guide to the
mathematics of NTSC video:
<http://teched.vt.edu/gcc/HTML/VirtualTextbook/PDFs/AdobeTutorialsPDFs/Premiere/PremiereTimecode.pdf>
But yes, iMovie's about as good as it gets.
the ability to remote control my home theatre system with whatever
Bluetooth/IRDA gadget I happen to be holding - phone, PDA, laptop.
I've got Salling Clicker, works for me :)
Have fun,
Shay
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