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any way to watch a little window of TV within the iMac, like CNBC,
while i lose money trading stocks in the morning?
whoops, forgot to say that i have cable access. so i figure the
channels are there, just don't know of any apps....
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my friend just bought "iTV", which does come with software.
however, it cost $200. was wondering if there was just a software
alternative, but doesn't sound like it. thanks anyway....
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Well, here's the thing.
Ask yourself how you are going to connect the TV cable to the Mac without hardware...
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Can't you get certain channels over the net? Maybe that's what gregg means. I think Quicktime has streaming channels, right?
who makes iTV? I'm looking into getting some kind of video capture hardware for my G4 Quicksilver. The apple.com store touts the Dazzle Hollywood DV Bridge. Any other good suggestions?
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Yep, you can get some programming - but nowhere near the variety or quality of real TV - over the 'net.
The DV Bridge is the best thing I've seen in that category, although if you just need a TV tuner, there are much cheaper USB-based TV tuners.
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Pickle, have you used the DV Bridge? It says it can capture in DV format (what's this? digital video, but is this a file format?), and this can be converted to many different formats, but do they provide software for that or do you use iMovie? I should probably be asking Dazzle, but some impartial information couldn't hurt. Also, what's the big difference between DV Bridge and the Formac Studio (besides price tag)? Is it more interface ports? Apple.com says the Formac Studio Works with leading video editing software such as iMovie, Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premiere 6, but isn't this also true for the DV Bridge? Thanks for the help, Pickle. and thanks in advance to anyone who replies.
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Phil, I've used the Dazzle DV-Bridge and
Formac's Studio DV. There is no question, the
quality of captured video using the Formac Studio
DV is far superior to the Hollywood Dazzle DV-
Bridge. It's cheaper too, $289, instead of $299.Formac offers a Studio DV/TV that comes with a
TV tuner at $399 which works well, even under
OS X. I don't believe Dazzle offers a TV tuner for
any of their devices.d
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I have an XLR8 - InterView (video to USB).
I think I got it for $35 NIB on Ebay.
Hardware & software.
Works well. And you can't beat the price.
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Don't know if anyone will still look at this thread, I came across the XCLAIM TV/USB from ATI (retail $99). It looks like it can do about what the Dazzle DV Bridge can do but with a TV tuner (NTSC only) and cheaper, can this be true? Has anyone used this? Also, I've noticed that most video capture options for mac are external devices, I haven't seen any internal video capture cards for mac. Why is this? (this search for mac video capture makes me frustrated because I can't go into a store and actually look at the products or get a demonstration - no stores around me deal with mac, except Circuit City and they didn't have anything in that department. it makes me hate the Switch ad campaign by mac, saying "don't worry about compatibility, you can do anything on mac, no problem, just buy it" *bought it* "ha ha, have fun finding things for it and paying twice as much")
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Yell at ATi for not making their Radeon All-in-Wonder available for us Mac users. They have the card, and they've done Mac ROMs for most of their other products, including previous All-in-Wonder cards, so they oughta be able to do this one easily enough.
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