Filed under: iPod Family, Multimedia, Software, Video
EvolutionTV Public Beta supports real-time capture for iPod and Sony PSP
Miglia Technology has
announced the release of Public Beta One for their EvolutionTV software, which offers real-time TV and
Video capture for iPod 5G (w/ video) and Sony PSP in conjunction with the EvolutionTV hardware.EvolutionTV is a TiVo-like digital video recorder for your Mac that also features MPEG2/4, DivX compression.
You can use EvolutionTV to capture television, as well as VHS, DVD and HI8.
EvolutionTV uses built in real-time hardware compression and does away with the export steps. Simply press the record button and synchronise the recorded video file to your iPod.”
Although the software is still in Beta, Miglia "felt that [their] customers would prefer the speed and convenience of direct capture to be available, so they can make the choice," said Miglia CEO Simon Ellson. They anticipate a final release in mid to late February.
To use EvolutionTV you'll need a Mac with USB 2.0 connectivity, a PowerPC G4/1 GHz processor or higher, a minimum of 256 MB of RAM and Mac OS X 10.4.x or higher.
If you're an EvolutionTV owner and you decide to try their new beta software, drop us a comment and let us know how it's working out.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Neil said 2:00PM on 11-16-2006
JC said, "The other units are decent to. However, the compression is still needed on the hardware, ie: Mac side vs TV converter side."
Doesn't the ConvertX and the EyeTV 250 have compression built into the devices too?
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JC said 4:27PM on 1-11-2006
I have:
Miglia Evolution
EyeTV USB
EyeTV 200
ConvertX
I am in the process of building a "mini Media" and have been using these for about a year now. I have to lean more towards the Evolution unit. It compresses on the box instead of my mac mini and puts the files into a .mp4 file that can be easily imported into iMovie and stripped of all commercials. Thus making it easy to compile a set of tv shows that I can burn to DVD and watch whenever. All in all probably one of the better units available to us Mac users.
The other units are decent to. However, the compression is still needed on the hardware, ie: Mac side vs TV converter side. Also I don't care for them using USB2.0. Yes it is quick but I would prefer it to be Firewire.
I do hope that we get better offerings now with intel hardware. The direct capture to iPod/PSP should be good to use, however I dont' think I will get much use of it. I am just glad they aren't having me buy a new unit just to get the features.
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