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Elgato's Mac-friendly Hybrid USB TV with Hardware Encoder

  August 22nd, 2007



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Elgato's Mac-friendly Hybrid USB TV with Hardware Encoder

Elgato has just updated the EyeTV 250 with the addition of a ASTC receiver. The new EyeTV 250 Plus is now a hybrid tuner exclusively for Mac, and like its predecessor, the USB TV box also has a hardware encoder that converts incoming NTSC or ASTC signals to MPEG-2. This is the most significant distinction between the 250 Plus and the Hybrid released just a year ago. Other than that, there isn't much difference. However, Elgato should be aware by now that we Mac folks wanted most - H.264 hardware encoding capability. MPEG-2 simply takes too much space when dealing with HDTV content.

Elgato EyeTV 250 Plus will ship with Roxio Toast 8 Basic for disc burning as well as EyeTV 2.4 recorder software which is now added with Apple TV support.

Via eHomeUpgrade

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