Elgato EyeTV 250 Plus USB TV Tuner - 2008 Edition
The most powerful HDTV recorder for your Mac!
- Powerful TV tuner and video converter
- Hardware compression for better quality recordings
- Receives free-to-air HDTV, unencrypted digital cable (Clear QAM), and analog TV
- Roxio Toast 8 Basic disc burning software
- VHS Assistant to convert videotapes to DVDs
- iPod Assistant to convert analog video to iPod/iPhone/Apple TV formats
EyeTV 250 Plus is a hybrid USB TV tuner for the Mac with a powerful hardware encoder for higher quality recordings and smaller sized video files. EyeTV 250 Plus receives free-to-air HDTV, analog TV, and Clear QAM digital cable. EyeTV 250 Plus offers a complete solution for converting videos from VHS tape to DVD-Video.
Future-proof television for your Mac
EyeTV 250 Plus is future-proof for the upcoming digital TV switch-over in 2009, and is ideal for those who want the flexibility of a digital and analog TV tuner together with a hardware encoder in one device. EyeTV 250 Plus delivers free-to-air digital TV to your Mac (ATSC), unencrypted digital cable (Clear QAM), as well as conventional analog TV via standard cable or antenna. EyeTV 250 Plus also comes with a break-out cable for composite video and S-Video, enabling you to connect a set-top box directly to your Mac.
Superb quality digital and analog TV recordings
EyeTV 250 Plus records digital television in one quality setting, Lossless. The ATSC digital stream is recorded unaltered, and so youre getting full quality HDTV content as encoded by the broadcaster. EyeTV supports closed captioning and Dolby Digital sound.
Convert videotapes into digital files
Use EyeTV 250 Plus to capture video and convert VHS tapes into high-quality digital files. EyeTV 250 Plus easy-to-use VHS Assistant will walk you through each step, from connecting your VCR or camcorder right through to burning a DVD or sending the recording to iTunes. The iPod Assistant will also help you capture movies from an analog video source, and convert them to the appropriate iPod/iPhone/Apple TV format.
Roxio Toast 8 Basic included
EyeTV 250 Plus comes with Roxio Toast 8 Basic, enabling you to burn your recordings to DVD using EyeTVs one-click Toast button without the need to buy additional software.
EyeTV 250 Plus powerful hardware encoder also records high quality video from analog sources, compressing audio and video signals to small size MPEG-2 files and freeing up your processor for other activities. MPEG-2 is a premium-quality video compression standard which is the basis for DVD and digital television.
HDTV programming in your area
Prime time HD content is becoming increasingly available from the major US and Canadian broadcasters. For a listing of programs in your area, we recommend viewing the following
site: www.nab.org
Information about external antennas
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) offers an antenna mapping program to help you determine the proper outdoor antenna to use in order to receive your local television broadcast channels.
Visit www.antennaweb.org
EyeTV 250 Plus Specifications:
- Analog- / ATSC-Tuner
- Frequency range: 48-862MHz (VHF and UHF)
- Analog TV standards: NTSC
- Digital TV standards: ATSC
- 5th Generation LG Demodulator
- Hardware-Encoder
- Video Encoding:
- High-quality real-time encoding
- Supports MPEG-2 and MPEG-1
- NTSC resolutions: up to 720Χ480, 30 fps
- Variable and constant bit rate up to 15-Mbit/sec
- Audio Encoding:
- MPEG 1 Layer II
- Sampling rates of 32 kHz, 44.1 kHz, and 48 kHz
- Compressed bit rates up to 448 kbit/sec
- Input and Output
- USB 2.0
- Antenna input: Coaxial connector (IEC)
- S-Video (via break out cable, included)
- Composite video (via break out cable, included)
- Stereo audio (via break out cable, included)
- IR remote control sensor
- Power Supply
- Dimensions
EyeTV 250 Plus USB TV tuner for Mac Includes:
- EyeTV 250 Plus analog/digital TV receiver and video converter
- Infrared remote control with batteries
- Breakout cable for composite, S-video and stereo audio
- EyeTV 3 software (on CD)
- Toast 8 Basic
- Power supply
- Quick Start Guide
- USB cable
System Requirements:
- Macintosh computer with a PowerPC G4, G5 or Intel Core processor
- 512 MB of physical RAM
- a built-in USB 2.0 port
- Mac OS X v10.4 or later
- Internet connection required to download Program Guide data
Note: 720p or 1080i HD features require a Dual PowerPC G5 or an Intel Core Duo processor.
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