Hi Steve, Have you had the product in your possession for months so you could report on it beyond the press releases and the misleading FAQ pages?
I have had all three in my possession since about March. And I have been using them on a daily basis. I know from what I speak. Not to be snotty or anything but I know what these boxes can and can't do. ElGato even told me flat out directly after I discovered this that the eyeHome product is only built to deal with analog source recordings and not the digital source recordings. eyeHome (USA) only deals with SD recordings from ANALOG signals recorded on the eyeTV 200 ANALOG tuner-recorder NOT from the SD and HDTV Digital eyeTV 500 tuner-recorder. But I could not even get it to properly serve my iTunes playlists. I am CERTAIN this product is not worth being treated like something you should buy. It is FROM ANALOG ONLY SOURCES recorded digitally and also can do analog to DV transcodings with the analog input set it has on it's side. You can run both the eyeTV 200 and the eyeTV 500 simultaneously and record from both analog and digital broadcast signals. They did not know that by the way. But the eyeHome does not support any of the digital broadcast recordings which include SD digital broadcasts. That FAQ is talking about interpolating SD recordings - not displaying native HDTV recordings. It is a TRICK answer that misleads the reader. Who here wants to record analog broadcast signals when digital SD and HD is already in the air? On the other hand I can HIGHLY recommend the eyeTV 500 digital- receiver recorder for Macintosh 500 MHz G4 and above. A dual processor PowerMac G5 is preferable. I started with a Dual 2 G5 and bought a Dual 2.5 G5 after experiencing upper limits of the slower one with the eyeTV 500 right away-particularly running both the analog eyeTV 200 and eyeTV 500 at once. -- Taylor Barcroft http://www.blogger.com/profile/11159903 New Media Publisher, Editor, Video Journalist, Webcaster, Futurecaster Santa Cruz CA, Beach of the Silicon Valley URL http://FutureMedia.org RSS http://feeds.feedburner.com/FutureMedia iTunes http://tinyurl.com/8ql87 On Sep 22, 2005, at 2:57 PM, Steve Watkins wrote: > To clarify, its not 'analog only', it just doesnt do HDTV. You can get > digital TV that is Standard Definition, so it will work with some > digital TV footage. NO IT WILL NOT. It let's you transcode Analog video to DV. Sure it does that. But eyeTV Home can only display digital recordings of Analog off air or cable signals. And it's ability to play iTunes Playlists was not true for me. A very crude attempt at a home entertainment hub that DOES NOT WORK AS ADVERTISED. > This is a global list, and theres a range of > different products from Elgato for different emerging Digital TV > standards in different parts of the world. It is certainly a shame > that the eyeHome doesnt do HDTV, but for videoblog->TV purposes this > sdoesnt matter at the moment. > > From their FAQ: > > Q: Does EyeHome support HDTV resolutions? > > A: Yes and No. The EyeHome hardware runs at a native 480p (720 by 480) > resolution. It can scale this to 720p (1280 by 720) or 1080i (1920 by > 1080), and the scaling is high quality. You pick the resolution you > want in the EyeHome Settings screen. You can also choose standard TV > resolutions. > > Only video that is 480p or less will play. EyeHome cannot play HDTV > video from EyeTV 500 or any other source, due to its higher bitrate > and resolution above 480p. > > Steve of Elbows ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/cd_AJB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
