Eye TV 250 trouble

I don't know if this is the right place for this but I'm having trouble with my EYETV 250.
It basically works fine, great product and all, but there's one important thing that's not working.
In controls I have it set to Composite Video input and Games. But when I go to record it un-checks Games... And this makes it very difficult to capture what I'm trying to capture. Can you guys help me out here? I certainty need some help.

Double posted: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1766133&tstart=0

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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
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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
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For future reference you've posted in the iMac G4 "Flat Panel" forum
You will be better to post in the iMac G5 or iMac Early 2006 forums in futureas you either have an iMac G5 or an iMac Intel (known as iMac (Early 2006)). Which particularly if you have software issues the type of processor will be valuable info on within these forums. The G5 is a totally different (64bit PowerPC) processor versus the 32bit Core Duo Intels in this year's iMacs.
G5: Intel:
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I have a television and want to buy an HDD recorder.
but i do not want to buy a dvd recorder also as i
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