Elgato Eye TV 250 makes iMac "pop"?!

Just hooked up Elgato Eye TV 250 a few days ago to my new (Christmas) 24" iMac which has worked flawlessly from day one. I now notice that whenever the Eye TV application is open, every so often I hear a single pop come through my iMac. I haven't timed it, but I'm guessing it happens maybe twice every half hour (?). I am using a pair of external speakers (Altec Lansing) that work without any problems. I can't really tell if the pop comes from the speakers or from the computer itself. It's not a huge deal--a little annoying perhaps--but just thought I'd see if anyone knew what this was or, more importantly, if it could be doing any kind of damage?
Thanks!

I've been using my eyeTV with my iMac 24" for just about a year with Comcast digital cable. I am able to view HD (16:9) content on those channels that are not scrambled. Today, I added a Direct TV STB (not HD) and I'm able to view razor sharp digital 4:3 as my STB is not HD capable. I don't have a HD box handy, but I would suspect that if you have one, you should be able to view the D*TV HD programming including movies. I know someone who also has the D*TV HD bundle and he routes his composite video out to a Samsung DVD Player/Burner. He can create movie DVDs in 16:9 "HD" using this setup. His TV is connected via HDMI from the DVD player so he can watch those movies in real time as well.
My only question right now is that while I can see the D*TV Guide on my mac's screen... when I switch channels with the mouse, it shows the change... but remains on the previous channel. So I have to use the D*TV remote to switch channels... a real PITA.

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Hey guys, im not exactly sure if this is the right place to post this but whatever... i'll post it anyways. I was wondering if this product is able to allow me to record video
of me playing halo 2 onto my computer and put it in I Movie
so that i can edit it.
(thanks in advance for any help you can offer)
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/6244000/wo/DW5MT Nhsb9CV39igsY01YG0Bsjb/1.0.19.1.0.8.25.7.11.1.3
I Mac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.4)

If you mean recording while you're playing HALO on your Mac, then no. It records from a video input or external source. What you need is a screen recorder program.
Well if you were playing HALO on a game console (say, XBOX) and inputing the video feed in the EyeTV 250, then yes. If you go to the Elgato homepage it's all there. They refer to it as "Game mode".
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I have a imac g3 dv se, snow and after about 10minutes of it booting it makes a popping sound and the turns off, then it wont turn back on for another 5-10 minutes

i have a imac g3 dv se,500mhz, snow and after about 10minutes of it booting it makes a popping sound and the turns off, then it wont turn back on for another 5-10 minutes any suggestions?

Actually sounds like classic symptoms of a failing PAV (power-analog-video) on that model. Historically that's the weak spot in the G3 iMacs.
The lack of active cooling in the G3 iMac puts a lot of heat stress on this board and they eventually fail from overheating. Right now the board is still working as long as it's cool--it only fails when temps inside the computer rise.
About the only way to preserve the computer's life is to mount a 120mm fan directly on the case where the handle is--that's the exhaust port. The fan has to be positioned to PULL air out through that vent. It's an ugly solution to the eye but it has been done around here more than you would think.
Also make certain the bottom of the computer is not blocked. It the computer is sitting on a tablecloth or placemat, or there are loose papers on the desk under the case, it cannot get enough air into the bottom-mounted air intakes. Make/find some blocks to set the iMac a minimum of one inch (2.5CM) from the desk and move anything that can be "inhaled" from under the computer.
Even with such measures, the PAV board will eventually fail and be unrecoverable. It's a good time to start saving for a newer computer.

Late 2009 iMac running Yosemite freezing and won't wake up when Elgato Eye TV starts to record?

As above really, not much more to add.
My husbands late 2009 iMac recently upgraded to Yosemite (latest update installed yesterday) freezes while in sleep mode and has to be 'force shutdown' by holding power button down and then restarted to get it going again. Recording is stopped.
The Elgato Eye TV is a dual tuner with latest update.
Sometimes it wakes the computer up and begins recording, sometimes not.
No key taps or mouse jiggles get it to wake nor a quick press of the power button, I can hear the computer running and have to hold the power button down until all is quiet then fire it back up.
Other times it just doesn't wake the computer at all and start recording. I am all out of things to try, I think he had this problem before but not as badly when the iMac was running Snow Leopard.

Hi Boaz,
I´m facing exactly the same with my Mini which is remotely controlled by a MacBook via Screensharing. Everything works fine unless the Mini goes to sleep. After that I´m not able to wake it up by the MacBook and Wake on LAN (Wol). Even the share is not listed in Finder´s sidebar anymore. It simply doesn´t show up in the share sections anymore. When I log on to my router I can see, that MacMini is not active and I can send WoL package from the router. That brings the Mini back alive, although it still doesn´t show up in the Finder sidebar. When I connect to the Mini via Finder "Connect to share" and type in: vnc://ip-MacMini I can use screensharing again.......
Also I faced the problem with indexed network phantoms....means my Mini was listed in network shares with several different indices e.g. MacMini(2) and (4) and so on..... I wasn´t able to connect and curiously these phantoms show up even when my Mini was shut off! Looks like bonjour or something else is not working properly....
I fixed phantoms by reseting my router (AVM firtzbox), which worked out perfect since yesterday and no indexed phantom is showing up anymore.....
Haven´t fixed the screensharing or waking up thing yet....
I was also taking part in beta testing program and reported these problems to Apple. In Mavericks everything worked really perfect!
Greetz
Sven

My 24" IMac freezes and makes a popping sound in the speakers. What could be wrong?

Good afternoon
I have an early 2008 24" imac, 2.8GHz Intel cor 2 duo, mountnain lion 10.8.2. From time to time it suddenly stops, and makes a popping noise from the speakers and then the computer is frozen, i have to press the power button. This is now happening more often, at first i thought it might be flash as it use to happen on youtube videos, but today it froze whilst usling skype.
I read on the forms, but my problem is not exactly as the ones on forums.
Does anyone have this problem? Could it be the harddrive failing. I did a clean install of mountain lion last night and it happened still, the hard drive is a 320gb Hitatchi
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I have included a youtube link of what it looks and sounds like.
http://youtu.be/jBo9g2Z8U0E

You should try whats called a smc reset, look up HT3964 it should help, what you do is turn the imac off unplug the power cord from the back and hold down the power button for about 15 seconds then release and plug it back in.
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I have the elgato eye tv Hibrid and I have a problem whith the languages. When we have movie that you can choose the languages the the Mac and the Elgato spooke simultaneously with both languages. One audio in Italian and the other audio in Inglish. How can I choose only one langueage?

Also, note since you are running 10.6, it can't be on a PPC Mac. 10.6 only runs on Intel Macs.

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Yes, run one from HDMI and the other from Thunderbolt/minidisplayport sockets. In EyeTV Preferences check the screen you want for full screen use and make sure your Dock is on the other one.

Is there a way I can make Messages pop up chats in new windows by default like iChat used to ?

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The green button, top left corner of a pop-up screen on MACbook, it's supposed to enlarge the pop-up to full MAC screen size, correct? Mine does not. Sometimes it makes the pop-up screen SMALLER. Appreciate someone solving this for me.

the green button, top left corner of a pop-up screen on MACbook, it's supposed to enlarge the pop-up to full MAC screen size, correct? Mine does not. Sometimes it makes the pop-up screen SMALLER. Appreciate someone solving this for me.

Are you talking about the green '+' button in the top left corner? That technically doesn't enlarge it. It switches the window from the default window size to the custom size you made. You can enlarge the window by moving your mouse to the bottom right corner of the window, and dragging until you get the size you want.
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How to make a pop up within if else

I'm now making an user interface which will be used to control a remote robot. I want to make it so that when a button is pressed, a window will pop-up and tells the user what the robot is doing. At the moment, I can only make it to show the message in the cmd box. Code is as follow:
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Which I can put into the code for interface because I can't start another class within an if statement (as far as I know anyway...)
Can anyone please teach me how to make a pop-up within an if else statement?

Which I can put into the code for interface because I can't start another class within an if statement (as far as I know anyway...)yes you can.
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Can anyone please teach me how to make a pop-up within an if else statement?sure
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How to make a pop up that pause the program (during pop up) and click button to continue OR stop the program

Hi people,
I am using LabVIEW to create a testing program to test a power system. The testing lasts for a loop of 90 minutes.
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VanessaWen wrote:
Hi Blokk,
In my actual program I have 3 while loops. In while loop A, it is used as counter, to transfer rows of data from an array (row by row) to loop B. For loop B, device drivers are used so that my program can be used to control the devices (it is for automated instrument testing). Loop C is then used for DAQ, data at different test points will be recorded at every second.
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I keep getting a pop up to install firebug and its getting really irritating. I think it could harm my computer (because my computer has warned me it might be a virus). How can i make the pop up go away?

you keep sending a pop up message saying that i need to install firebug. Its getting annoying... really annoying. Please make it go away. My computer warns me it might be a virus or affect my computer in some way. I see no need for this firebug. Just make the pop up go away please.
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You probably installed an extension which requires Firebug to be installed. Get rid of that extension and that message won't appear any more.
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Does your Macbook make Random Popping Sounds?

Hi all, does your Macbook make random popping sounds, on startup and periodically when your using your MB. I have this issue with two macbooks and i can't seem to find many other people who have this problem. I'm unsure whether it's the audio popping issue mentioned in other threads because this happens when no external speakers are plugged in. It's just pops away on it's own and it's driving me mad, i can't even pin it down to a specific task because it;s so random.
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Arrrrrrrrggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh

Actually now that you've mentioned it, mine sometimes randomly makes the popping sounds, more to the likes of 'clipping' of speakers. But the odd thing is, mine only pops when connect my speakers (it's a Cambridge Soundworks 4.1 setup which i purchased over 6 years ago) - and the speakers have been fine all these while? I am positive that it's not my speakers because just recently (2-3 days ago) my brother brought his HP laptop and used my speakers and i did not hear anything even after he left his inferior (haha kidding) laptop on my desk to have a smoke without any music/sound coming out of the speakers.
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Elgato EYE TV EZ Experience

I have been thinking about Elgato product for my iMac G5 but i am not sure about the efficiency/quality of TV adaptor for Desktops
Has anyone experience the eye TV EZ? I am quite interested about this one to use TV and most of it plug in a Nintendo, but not got the best feedback.
Is it really nice and fast stuff like elgato pretends?
If you have any feedback, you are welcome...

I currntly own a EyeTV USB, an older model, while I'm not going to tell you that I have HD quality, it is a clearer picture than what you'd get on you run of the mill TV connected to a cable box.
on an iMac, you'll notice the fans rev up a little higher than normal.. the EyeTV is software driven not hardware driven, so it'll tend to get the system quite hot if running for hours on end. Though, it'll be fine to watch an evening of prime time TV, just don't leave it running all night as you may eventually fry something. (like a G5 CPU)
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Elgato Eye TV for recording TV to iPod

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NikR, I bought a new iMac in December and soon followed it with an Eye TV device which I bought from the Apple Store in Sheffield. The Apple Genius there was really helpful and said that the Miglia (http://store.apple.com/Apple/WebObjects/ukstore.woa/61114042/wo/ij4RhNFXhqg12VsV kMJ20RccOyM/1.0.21.1.0.8.25.7.11.3.3)
was cheaper and uses the same software as the Eye TV I was looking at (http://store.apple.com/Apple/WebObjects/ukstore.woa/61114042/wo/ij4RhNFXhqg12VsV kMJ20RccOyM/3.0.21.1.0.8.25.7.11.2.3).
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