El Gato says “EyeTV 250 Plus contains hardware encoders that offer excellent performance and recording quality. This is mainly an issue for older Macs – newer Intel Macs should be able to easily handle decoding analog signals. The main difference is that the EyeTV 250 Plus is a hardware encoder, so it does not use your Mac’s processor to encode analog video. Most people wanted to know about the difference between the EyeTV Hybrid (which costs $135) and the EyeTV 250 (which costs $185).Įl Gato has a standard comparison page between the two devices, and even better, you can see an article detailing the comparisons here. The Digital technology is just how the box receives it's programming, digital provides a more consistant signal and is more efficient than analog tv which is why they will eventually shut off analog.Several people wrote in with questions about the EyeTV Hybrid review I wrote last week. Again, basically the box recieves a digital signal, and decodes it so you can view the channels you subscribed to. So only channels that are wide in the open, as Shaw's business is providing TV they obviously do not leave their channels unencrypted or else anyone with a Digital Tuner could view programming without paying for it. An example is if you plugged your TV into the cable outlet you should be able to get up to Channel 60 because Shaw still transmits Analog TV, however anything above 60 is strictly Digital and your TV will not be able to view those channels without the Digital Terminal which will receive and decode the signal and output it into an analog signal which your TV can understand.Īdiabatic is talking about the EyeTV's ability to receive a pure digital signal, however it can only receive unencrypted channels. That is the function of the terminal as TV's are not able to decode the signal on their own (there are access control reasons but we won't touch on that here). The Digital Terminal takes the Digital Signal which is 1's and 0's and converts it to Analog so your TV can display it. It might be a problem with the way the EyeTV device scales the input signal. There are devices like ATi's TV Wonder 600 series that do a pretty good job of filtering/smoothing and sharpening an SD input signal. HD) so naturally it will look like poop on the computer. The problem is Computers are high resolution devices. *there may be some digital channels that Shaw provides that are viewable with a 3rd party digital tuner but it's certainly not many (because the cable box is needed to authorize any channels that the user pays for i.e., Tier 3).Ĭlick to expand.It is correct, the cable box receives it's signal digitally, that is what Digital Cable refers to. Note that of the options you have to connect the DCT700 to the eyeTV hybrid the composite video (yellow jack) will give better picture quality (unless Shaw has s-video then that's the best choice). I can't really troubleshoot from here why it looks so poor. How you are connecting the devices should give a usable picture though. The only way I know of to get a Shaw digital signal into a capture device is via the firewire outputs on the HDTV boxes. You will be able to view your DCT700's digital channels, of course, but they're coming out of the box as an analog signal. If you're thinking you can use the DCT700 as a decoder that will pass a digital signal to the capture device you're incorrect. The eyeTV hybrid only accepts a digital signal as clear (unencrypted) QAM which is not offered by Shaw (other than a few random channels in some markets*) or via an antenna. What is sounds like you've done (because you're mentioning Channel 4) is connect the analog RF modulated output to your capture device. it has two analog outputs (RF modulated and composite). The DCT700 can not output a digital signal.
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