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Product Description:
Mac PVR is an application that turns your Macintosh into a digital personal video recorder using a VCR and a camcorder with analog inputs or DV bridge. Mac PVR features one-touch recording as well as a scheduler to start and stop your recordings automatically. Shows are recorded using MPEG-4 compression, and can easily be imported into iMovie for editing, and sent to iDVD for burning (on SuperDrive equipped Macs). Never miss "The Simpsons" again, or compile a DVD of your favorite episodes! Free demo is limited to five-minute recordings.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.3
- Mac OS X 10.2
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.2 or later
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| Overall Rating: |   (2.0) |
Features: | (2.0) |
Support: | (3.0) |
| Ease of Use: | (4.0) |
Quality / Stability: | (3.0) |
Price: | (2.0) |
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It's OK - Version: 1.0, 12/20/2004 11:08AM PST
brennand
It does what it says it does but I wouldn't expect to burn any of these files to DVD or even VCD. The scheduler is quite robust (even though it doesn't wake from sleep). Using Quicktime Broadcaster, especially with MPEG-4 encoding, you'll be lucky to get 15 frames per second at medium quality and 320 x 240 resoultion. My Powerbook G4 550mhz got less than that. Changing the settings to DV compression actually made it worse, less than 10 frames per second. Quicktime Broadcaster's IP functions seem to take a lot of processor power. Compare this with the freeware myVCR program. It records full quality, 29.9 fps 720x480 DV on my Powerbook perfectly. You can only program one show at a time to be recorded in the scheduler but it's free and it works. The timer also keeps the computer from sleeping while running - it's not elegant but overall better than Mac PVR.
