[chrisutley]

I'm wondering what eyeTV would do to an iMac G5. If you are capturing a show, I assume your box is going to slowdown significantly.

Anybody try eyeTV on a DP PowerMac with a dedicated drive? Little to no performance hit unless you are doing some heavy duty work in another app?

[mattyd]

i wish i could tell you...

my 20" iMac G5 is on order. my eyeTV is sitting on my desk waiting for it.

i'm a little curious myself. anyone else have any experience with eyeTV?

[GORDYmac]

EyeTV USB here. System activity doesn't affect my EyeTV, or vice versa. It may be because of how I have it set up: 640MB RAM buffer, and my EyeTV archive is on a dedicated 60GB hard drive. This is on a Quicksilver 933 running 10.3.5.

This product is awesome!

[mattyd]

hmmmm...

i do have an external 200 GB drive i use for backups (actually sitting right on top of and plugged into the same firewire hub as the eyeTV). i wonder if i should partition it and use that for my eyeTV drive? i don't usually leave it on all the time, but i guess it might be better than taxing the iMac's internal drive.

[hab]

I tried to put the EyeTV archive on my external drive. The software had hiccups waking up the computer and external for scheduled programs. I ended up going back to the internal for current recordings and offloading TV programs to the external for archiving/storage.


[800 mhz FP iMac, EyeTV 200 (firewire)]