PIXELA CaptyTV/PCI (CHECK IT!)

tigerwoods99tigerwoods99
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in Current Mac Hardware edited January 2014
Check out what I just found while on xlr8yourmac.com:



<a href="http://www.pixela.co.jp/en/press/captytv_pci.html"; target="_blank">http://www.pixela.co.jp/en/press/captytv_pci.html</a>;



This looks like one sweet card, and Mac only! Problem is finding how they are available. Pixela is a Japanese company, and from the reports I read this card is gonna be available shipping to the international market in January. I think it's available right now in Japan. The price is $249 I think. Exactly the type of thing I'm looking to put in my G4.

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 8
    alcimedesalcimedes Posts: 5,486member
    cool, i've been waiting for one of those for a while. now i'll have to pick up a Mac tower though.



    or they'll have to put one of those on a PCMCIA card.....
  • Reply 2 of 8
    spartspart Posts: 2,060member
    Small chance of that, considering one of the chips has its own fan.
  • Reply 3 of 8
    aquaticaquatic Posts: 5,602member
    Here's something I've never understood. If you have a file, and encode at MP4 and MP2, if they're the same size won't the MP4 be higher quality? If so why does MP1 still exist? If better standards come out why do MP1 and 2 stay?
  • Reply 4 of 8
    matsumatsu Posts: 6,558member
    MP2 is the basis of DVD, it isn't going anywhere for a long time yet. Besides, there is room to tweak the encoding and bit rate of MPEG2 so you do get flexibility. MPEG1 was pretty big in Asia, and there were still plenty of VCD's around China 2 years ago. From what I understand, you could do some good things with MPEG4 and the 4.3-4.7GB's available on a standard DVD disc, you just wouldn't be able to play it in any standard DVD-video player.
  • Reply 5 of 8
    gordygordy Posts: 1,004member
    I emailed them. Here's the response:



    Dear Mr.XXXXXX,



    Thank you for your interest in our product, PCI product. Unfortunately, this product is not available for oversea users yet.



    Although we do not have any schedule yet, if release will be decided, we will update our English website, so please visit in the near future.



    We are sorry for your inconvenience.



    Kyoko
  • Reply 6 of 8
    hashshashin1212hashshashin1212 Posts: 2member
    Hello everybody,

    I live in Japan and I own a Capty TV, it's a great product for recording all you favorite TV shows. I really recomend it, that is, If you are living in Japan.

    This product is completly useless outside of Japan. First, the TV tunner is for Japanese broadcast signals only. 2nd, the solfware is only avalible in Japanese. Plus, if you do not own a Mac with an Intel chip, IT WILL NOT work. So all you Power PC owners are left out.



    The is that this company doesn't mention these anywhere out side the box, you can only see the requariments when you open the box (written in a piece of paper) and you are stuck with the product.

    I'll be happy to post a scan of this sheet or picture if anybody can tell me how to do it in there.
  • Reply 7 of 8
    hashshashin1212hashshashin1212 Posts: 2member
    I just noticed how old this is...



    Any way, here the new product. You record HD content with this, is very simple. Just connect it to you Intel Mac via USB (powered via USB too) then insert you cable card and you are done. The software will allow you to record and schedule programs.



    http://www.pixela.co.jp/products/index.html
  • Reply 8 of 8
    drjedidrjedi Posts: 61member
    Here's what you need in the USA for SD and HD broadcast TV.



    http://www.elgato.com/elgato/na/main...oducts.en.html
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