Eye TV functionality with a powerbook

I currently have the powerbook G4 with the 1.67Ghz proc, 512MB mem, 120GB HD and am looking into purchasing an eye tv setup to record tv media but have done some research and am finding that this may not be a good idea unless I own a power G5 with dual processors. most of the problems appear to be in the compression rate once the media has been saved. My understanding is that the G4 processor is "capable" of performing these operations, but not really practical. I'd like to know if maybe (hopefully) I am misreading it or is it basically necessary for me to go out and buy another full component power G5? Another concern is simply storage space. Is that something that can simply be fixed with one of the 300 GB external hard drives? Can anyone please advise?

elgato says...
A Macintosh computer with minimum PowerPC® G4 500Mhz or G5 processor and FireWire port.
Dual G5 processors required for full frame rate HDTV playback at full 1920x1080 resolution.
what you'll find is that you can record ok on the powerbook, the pb will only have to move blocks of data to disk
but for display of some hd video it will not have enough power
it does depend on the format though, at the lower resolutions/framerates the pb might be ok
this isn't specific to the eyetv or pb, it is just a reflection of the power needed to display hd video
quicktime for instance has similar requirements for hd video playback...
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/guide/hd/recommendations.html
you can see how the pb/other systems handle hd video by downloading apple's hd demos at different sizes and seeing how playback goes...
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/guide/hd/
using an external firewire drive will be ok, i use a pair (one for backup) of lacie 500gb fw800 drives to store captured video

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