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EyeTV Products and Hard Drive Space
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Naperville, IL
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I just saw that the EyeTV500 requires about 8gb per hour of hard drive space. For those of you that own this, can you modify the settings to record at say 1gb/hour ? I'm guessing that the 8gb/hour is for lossless HDTV content. I'm not planning on recording ONLY HDTV but also standard stuff too.
Any thoughts?
Mike
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2003
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As far as I know, you have a lot of options for quality. On my older usb model I even have options.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 1999
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Great, I hope so. I'm really thinking this would be a great device to import video. For a couple of years, I've had this old formac DV unit but once in awhile, the connection would drop and or the software would be incompatible with apple's update for awhile. I would import using iMovie, and then still have to export it out as an mp4 or (if I wanted better quality) export it out as an mp2 then use Diva/3ivx on it-deinterlace it and do the audio separately. It would be nice to either just use it as a tivo when I know if I want to make something portable or, simply connect it to my Tivo and use it as a hardware encoder for my TiVO shows....
Quick question, will a product like this wake up your computer lets say, 10 minutes before a scheduled recording to make sure all the drives are spinning and ready to go? Just wondering....
Mike
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2009 MacMini 2.0 C2D 4GB (3,1) - Needs update!
11" MBA (2010 1.6GHz C2D)
iPhone 4 / iPad!
Hooked on Apple since the IIGS
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Jun 2003
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Originally Posted by MikeD
Quick question, will a product like this wake up your computer lets say, 10 minutes before a scheduled recording to make sure all the drives are spinning and ready to go? Just wondering....
Mike
There is a scheduler built into the software, but I am not sure if it wakes up the machine. I am at work right now, so I cannot look it up, but I'll look into it once I get home. 
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: May 2001
Location: chicago, il, usa
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Nope, EyeTV 500 as far as I know, just takes the HDTV stream from whatever the source and puts it on the disk. After recording, you can transcode it to something that would take up less space, but I don't think you can set it to record in a different format. Also, HDTV is all the EyeTV 500 does, no video input, no regular tv, no regular cable, just HDTV either OTA or Clear QAM (broadcast or free cable HDTV).
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