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TV Tuners for Mac

Posted: Sat 09 Mar, 2013 16.24
by Bail
Hello knowledgeable people of Metropol. What (if any) USB tuners exist for mac? And even more are there any with DVB-T2 (HD) options? My morning of googling hasn't really brought any good solutions?

Re: TV Tuners for Mac

Posted: Sat 09 Mar, 2013 16.37
by wells
It's funny you should ask this. I was in an independently owned shop selling Apple products today and someone asked the sales assistant if he could watch TV on an iMac, all the sales assistant could suggest though was TV Catch Up and informed him he wouldn't able to connect game consoles to it though, which i doubt would have been a problem with him being in his 60s by the looks of it.

Sorry that this doesn't much help your problem.

Re: TV Tuners for Mac

Posted: Sat 09 Mar, 2013 16.53
by woah
There is this (along with a few more expensive Elgato models) on the Apple store website but they don't support Freeview HD.

Re: TV Tuners for Mac

Posted: Sat 09 Mar, 2013 17.07
by Philip
woah wrote:There is this (along with a few more expensive Elgato models) on the Apple store website but they don't support Freeview HD.
This is the model I use, Elgato are the company to look at if you're interested in getting a Mac tuner. The only problem I have is the relatively poor export quality when exporting to formats such as .m4v and .mp4, I edit the video in EyeTV and then export it back into its original MPEG-2 format, before uploading to YouTube (although YouTube compresses it quite a bit unfortunately).

Re: TV Tuners for Mac

Posted: Tue 12 Mar, 2013 16.32
by Areso
I swear I have read somewhere that the PCTV Nanostick T2 (PCTV being a Hauppauge brand) works with EyeTV. I've had a search and can't find anything relating to it, but I've sent a support query to ElGato asking.

Re: TV Tuners for Mac

Posted: Thu 14 Mar, 2013 23.41
by Areso
Got a response to say that it isn't supported, sorry.