• HDTV and SDTV tuner. Receive more than 20 channels of free prime-time programming from the major US broadcasters (including ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, UPN, ESPN and WB)
• Now includes unencrypted digital cable reception (Clear QAM)
• FireWire interface, for high-speed data transfer
HiDef encoded at up to 18 megabits per second in MPEG-2
HiDef content can use up to 8 gigabytes per hour of showtime
You can receive unencrypted HDTV programs over antenna or cable with EyeTV 500, but not satellite TV.
The full widescreen image is 1920 by 1080. You can view this at a smaller size if your screen is not HD ready. 4:3 content will be displayed normally.
Using EyeTV software version 1.6 or higher, you can also export EyeTV content to any format that QuickTime supports, such as MPEG-4 or DV.
The EyeTV 500 product requires a "G4 500 MHz or better" processor. Why is that?
A: Decoding MPEG-2 video is a very CPU-intensive task. EyeTV will not be able to decode MPEG-2 content in real-time on a slower processor. It takes a dual processor G5 to display full size, full frame rate HDTV.
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