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Product Description:
The Tube is the state-of-the-art TV solution for Mac OS X. It allows you to watch, pause and rewind (manual and automatic Timeshift) live television. With TubeTalk you can talk to other users while watching TV. The Tube could easily replace your VCR and TV Guide. now that scheduled recordings and EPG (Electronic Program Guide) have been implemented. The Tube is built from the ground up in Coco and takes full advantage of the Mac OS X technologies.
What's new in this version:
- New: TubeToGo, watch and schedule TV recordings on the go with your iPhone, iPod touch or web browser
- New: Follow the most popular TV channels
- New: With TubeToGo your recordings can be automatically synchronized with iTunes
- New: Dolby Digital (AC3) is now available
- New: Smart Zoom 2, zoom in and out of The Tube window without mouse click or keyboard
- New: View live channel ratings
- Improved: Various causes for crashes have been sorted out
- Improved: Active TubeToGo users are marked in the TubeTalk user list
- Improved: New TubeTalk messages are displayed more prominently in the channel list
- Improved: TubeTalk now also shows when users enter and leave the channel
- Improved: The Electronic Porgramm Guide can be now filled for all channels with one mouse click
- Improved: The automatic deactivation of Timehift has been optimized
- Improved: The automatic On-Screen Display can be disabled
- Improved: The signal is re-tuned multiple times if there is bad reception
- Improved: The Tube has a new decoder engine which improves the stability and performance, especially with bad reception
- Improved: The Tube can now export multiple recordings at once
- The automatic creation of the Movie folder has been fixed
- An issue where TV buddy details have not been shown correctly has been fixed
- Issues with the feature "record till show ends" have been resolved
- The creation of recording thumbnails has been improved
- Issues with headless operation of The Tube have been resolved
- Some export settings have been corrected
- Crashes during channel assignment have been resolved
- Crashes caused by specific EPG data have been resolved
- A problem which caused TubeTalk to disconnect during playback of recordings has been fixed
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Additional Requirements:
- Minimal: Macintosh with PowerPC G4, 1.0 GHz or faster, 512 MB RAM
- Recommended: Intel Processor, 1 GB RAM or more
- Min. 2 GB disk storage
- Built-in USB 2.0 port
- CD-ROM drive
- Mac OS X 10.4 or higher
- Internet-Connection (required for activation)
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Download The Tube Version 2.5 (File Size: 106M)
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Download The Tube Current Version (File Size: 94.7M)
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| Overall Rating: |   (3.0) |
Features: | (3.0) |
Support: | (1.0) |
| Ease of Use: | (4.0) |
Quality / Stability: | (4.0) |
Price: | (5.0) |
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It's getting better and better - Version: 2.9.3, 5/19/2009 10:49AM PST
techchick99
I watch TV with my Mac with The Tube for a while now and I have to say: Two thumbs up!
The coolest feature that I just LOVE is the free-of-charge iPhone App, with which you are able to stream live TV on your iPhone. Now I can sit on my balcony and watch TV.
The coolest feature that I just LOVE is the free-of-charge iPhone App, with which you are able to stream live TV on your iPhone. Now I can sit on my balcony and watch TV.
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- Sounds like self-PR from the developer
Export doesn't work - Version: 2.9.3, 4/14/2009 11:34AM PST
couch68
I try to export a recorded movie to iMovie. But the export always stops exact at file size of 24,89 GB (26.727.696.000 Bytes) of the .dv file. So I cannot export my movies :-(
Don't waste your money and time buying this product if you live in a country that broadcasts Digital TV in H.264/MPEG-4 formats.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVB-T#Countries_and_territories_using_DVB-T.5B2.5D
For me the software came bundled with a DVB-T hauppauge USB stick. And to watch TV on my MacBook, I have to now buy EyeTV software http://www.elgato.com/