[subsonic]

I'm trying to decide between Miglia's TVMax and Elgato's EyeTV 250, but I can't find anything about TVMax's latency when playing games. EyeTV 250 claims to have zero latency, but users say that they still notice a lag when actually playing... Does anyone have any experience with hooking up a game console to either of these two (I have a PS2 at this moment)?

[vmarks]

Hi,

The answer is that EyeTV 250 is appropriate for game systems, and TVMax is not.

The hardware encoder in EyeTV 250 can be disabled, which eliminates the latency, but as a trade-off increases CPU load.

The hardware encoder in TVMax cannot be disabled, making it unsuitable for games because the latency will be about 1 second.

The advantage to a TVMax is having the inputs mounted on the device rather than on a break-out cable and having the ability to encode DivX and MPEG-4, which EyeTV 250 lacks. Neither of those help you with respect to video game systems.

[subsonic]

Hmmm... thanks! Not the answer I was hoping for, but that's not your fault ! I like the MP4 encoding possibilities of the TVMax, and, indeed, the box mounted inputs, but I guess I'll have to settle for the EyeTV 250...