![]() ![]() What will no doubt attract gamers to this device is the HDMI input, which in our tests, helped produce as crystal clear an image as we’ve seen on similar devices. Secondly, the device us USB powered, so no need for additional power cables while offering a pretty simple setup. For starters, the device is nice and small, unlike another solid, but bulky option that is popular on the market right now, which is fantastic for taking it on the go. We’ve seen our fair share of capturing devices but perhaps none have impressed us as much as Elgato’s Game Capture HD. Even if you eventually want to view on a tablet, is the ultimate quality that important? So forget about my quality warnings and make your decision based on other criteria.Whether it’s for walkthroughs, reviews or for showing off, more and more gamers are taking to recording their gameplay footage and sharing them all over the place. Some advice to you: Since you're only trying to watch on a 4" screen, a slight quality degradation might not be important to you. So I have a way to get content saved off to hard disk, and haven't bought a box that can capture from component video. This is by no means HD quality, but it's not bad. My TiVo will happily output an HD program onto S-Video and preserve 16:9 aspect ratio when doing so. I also have available a Panasonic box (I forget the exact model) that lets me record from S-Video to its hard disk and then to a DVD. So that leaves the problem of protected HD content. I was able to transfer the most recent Super Bowl to my computer and convert it to MPEG-4. But this is still good for a lot of things. I can't transfer anything but local channels because Frontier FiOS sets flags which prohibit it (Verizon FiOS didn't have that restriction, but Seidenberg sold us out). Right now I can (and do) digitally transfer local broadcast channels from my TiVo direct to my iMac. No I have never bought either of these hardware boxes. When I record using my EyeTV 500, there's about a 90 minute compression process for each hour of 1080i video that I record, not counting that I remove the commercials where appropriate. Also, I don't think the EyeTV HD supports Dolby Digital, but I could be wrong. Recording off of the satellite receiver in 720p, I can export recordings to h.264 with Dolby Digital 5.1 sound very fast because it's not compressing, only changing the wrapper on the recorded file generated by the Hauppauge! A two hour movie takes less than five minutes to be ready for the iPad/iPhone/Apple TV. The only downside to the setup I have now is that I have to go upstairs to change channels when I'm streaming to the Apple TV and there's about 30 second delay. I can't think of a reason why I'd buy the EyeTV HD since it doesn't have an internal hard drive and requires a Mac to stream. I already stream stuff off of satellite (using the HDPVR) to my Apple TV using my iPhone and iPad and the EyeTV software, which is a definite plus of the software, but not the tuner. I haven't had any problems with the HDPVR and my EyeTV 500 is about eight years old. I have both EyeTV 3.5.4, which I use with the HDPVR and an EyeTV 500, and HDPVRCapture, which I rarely use at all these days. ![]() I have the Hauppauge! HDPVR and use it to record content from my Dish satellite receiver, mostly things I've recorded already on my DVR. Not sure where Plex comes in here and what it really adds to the solution. I haven't done much watching using EyeTV, but I did notice some stability issues. To get that you will have to connect your mini to the TV and use EyeTV. Now, to cut the cord, you need LiveTV and time shifting. You are not using EyeTV for playback, so it keeps recording the same show. Another problem in this set-up is EyeTV will continue to record the same show, unless you manage the queue manually. That's a trade-off that many won't accept. We are ok with the PQ which is pretty good actually. For playback of everything recorded by EyeTV and other iTunes content I use the ATV2. This makes the (automated) export after the recording is finished easy, it's simply a copy of the file to another location. I use a mac mini server with an EyeTV HD, recording directly to the iPad profile and iTunes. There's no real multi-tuner support, other than the accidental version of this feature you get with EyeTV when using the HDHomeRun - for example., short list of supported hardware etc. Getting this done with OS X is not easy. ![]()
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