> From: tom samson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > My Twinham TV capture USB device DTV Alpha 7045A Stopped and I cannot > get Eye TV 2 to reconnect it.
Have you tried downloading the new EyeTV 2.3.2 just released today? It might get the old device working as it has a bunch of bug-fixes and performance enhancements as well as some great new features. > 2. What replacement cards work with Eye TV. > there seem to be a lot of philips 7130 cards for Win environments - > do they work on G5s? My recommendation would be the Elgato EyeTV Hybrid. Being the size of a USB thumbdrive you don't have to use up a PCI slot in your G5 and it has both a digital and an analog TV tuner and composite and S-video inputs for hooking up your old VCR. http://elgato.com/index.php?file=products_eyetvhybrid&PHPSESSID=56d6ac511e87 0aad6c239c3d2c4ce5dc My wife is using one on her MacBook at the moment to digitise old VHS tapes. It's working great so far, particularly in concert with Toast which if you just want to blast old VHS tapes onto DVD without creating funky menus in iDVD, takes far less time. We've got an older EyeTV 400 and now one of these new EyeTV Hybrids on our lounge-room iMac G5 which allows us to record two channels simultaneously. I've also just now tried a second EyeTV Hybrid plugged into the G5 making a total of 3 tuners and it schedules and records three channels simultaneously quite nicely. The recorded files play back great though our 1.8GHz G5 iMac can struggle a little bit if you try to view 2 or 3 live channels simultaneously while also exporting a movie out to H.264 (it can get a bit jerky every now and then as it drops the odd frame or two to keep up). Sounds like an Dual-core intel chip-equipped Mac would be just the ticket for this. :-) Daniel Kerr at MacWizardry might still have some of the Hybrids in stock for around $260. -Mart -------------------------------------- Martin Hill email: mart "at" ozmac.com homepages: http://mart.ozmac.com Mb: 0417-967-969 hm: (08)9314-524
