I have to watch Versus via the s-video inputs on the EyeTV and I can hardly believe the huge difference that the progressive scan setting makes for watching hockey. The results is especially noticeable when watching SD material. While it has the standard motion-adaptive and always settings for deinterlacing, it also offers a progressive scan setting which doubles the frame rate from 30 frames per second to 60 frames per second.
The beauty of EyeTV is that it does a great job deinterlacing content, which makes SD material look a whole lot better and removes some of the annoying jaggies in HD material. My number one annoyance is interlaced content. What I like best about EyeTV 3 (and I’m using 3.0.2) is that it offers a plethora of deinterlacing options.
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The only other channels that show up are any non-encrypted digital channels such as the local school districts TV stations and On-demand channels.
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Keep in mind – that’s an analog and digital version of every basic channel, plus the five HD channels I can see plus all the other HD channels that I can detect but can’t watch (it just says encrypted). It also keeps the list of all the channels you have access to, which is my case is 461. The program also allows you set up favorite channels. It includes a TitanTV subscription so you can access TV listings and even remotely schedule a recording to your Mac. More important than the tuner is the included EyeTV 3 Software, which controls the tuner. It does take quite a bit of CPU power to handle HD broadcasts however. This confines you to only the broadcast channels (ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS, and PBS in my case).
The biggest plus (in my case) is the ability to pick up Clear QAM digital HD channels. This takes a lot of load off your CPU so it becomes much easier to multi-task. The advantage here is that when you’re recording or viewing something off of either analog TV or the analog inputs all the encoding happens outside of your computer, so all the computer has to do is decode and display the video. The biggest difference between the cheaper EyeTV Hybrid and the EyeTV 250 Plus is that the 250 has an external MPEG-2 (Video)/MPEG-1 (Audio) encoder (The Hybrid model relies on your CPU to convert the signal into digital format). For my purposes I was most interested in the QAM capability since I am a cable subscriber.
It also has an adapter that can accept Composite and S-Video inputs along with analog stereo audio. The EyeTV 250 Plus is an external USB based tuner that supports NTSC (Analog Cable and Satellite), ATSC (Digital Satellite) and QAM (Digital Cable). After reviewing all my options, I decided on the EyeTV 250 Plus. They have three models right now (The EyeTV Hybrid, EyeTV 250 Plus, and the HDHomeRun).
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So I started looking at TV tuners and finally decided on Elgato’s EyeTV 250 Plus.Įlgato makes TV tuners, acccessories, and software for Mac and is pretty much regarded as the best company for Mac TV accessories. The problem was that the nicest screen (my 24-inch LCD monitor for my Mac Mini) lacks a tuner so it couldn’t act as a TV. We have one TV upstairs (which has all the good stuff attached to it) and then one downstairs that is just plugged into standard cable (2-72). Our house has always been a two tv house – that’s it.
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