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EyeTV and Satelite or Digital Cable Question
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EyeTV and Satellite or Digital Cable?
I have an iMac with EyeTV. Works great, but.....I would like to use it with satellite or digital cable.
But these all use set-top boxes. Can I use the EyeTV with this and will he be able to record scheduled shows?
Will EyeTV be able to change channels on his own?
If not, how is it that I see people making near perfect recordings of TV shows and such?
Thanks in advance for any help!
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Originally posted by WinTroll:
EyeTV and Satellite or Digital Cable?
I have an iMac with EyeTV. Works great, but.....I would like to use it with satellite or digital cable.
But these all use set-top boxes. Can I use the EyeTV with this and will he be able to record scheduled shows?
Will EyeTV be able to change channels on his own?
If not, how is it that I see people making near perfect recordings of TV shows and such?
Thanks in advance for any help!
I have my Dish Network set top box plugged into the A/V inputs on my eyeTV. You cannot do "point and click" scheduling w/ this setup, but you can still manually schedule recordings. It takes all of 20 secs. to set up a manual recording, so it's really no biggie. I must say, the quality of the recordings is a huge improvement over the analogue cable signal I was using.
Kevin
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So the EyeTV device is able to change the channel to the right channel to do the recording?
Or must you do something on the set-top box as well (like leave it on that channel)?
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Originally posted by WinTroll:
So the EyeTV device is able to change the channel to the right channel to do the recording?
Or must you do something on the set-top box as well (like leave it on that channel)?
unfortunately it's the latter. but like i said, the recording quality is much better than broadcast cable.
Kevin
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well, if you take a look at the elgato site right now, you'll see the brand new EyeTV 300 and 400 series! They look good, cant wait to get one.
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