Eyetv easy?

I'm pretty new to the Mac and was interested in recording tv shows to the mac and burning them to DVD? I heard about this eyetv - is it simple? What all is entailed for me to do the above? I have the intel-mac and get my tv through antenna. i see the tuner is $100-$150. But I'm not sure if I need additional software to burn to dvd... and if the quality is good once i burn to dvd. thanks for any ideas.

Hello,
Within EyeTV you get the 7-day EPG like any set-top box. You simply search through by date/time/channel, or type "Family Guy" to see all episodes that are on for the next few days. Then single click on the Red dot. Teh shows will then be recorded. If your iMac is shutdown it will boot up a couple of minutes beforehand automatically so that the show is not missed.
EyeTV is designed to work with Toast so once you have the recording complete just click the Toast button.
I've also exported TV shows and imported them into iDVD so that I could add menus before burning.
cheers
mrtotes

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I am soon going to be going back to Macintosh after a failed 17 year experiment with Windows and one of the things I will be wanting to do is transfer some home videos I own into a format that I can edit likely using I-movie.
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There appeared to be a consensus on the threads I read that the Grass Valley ADVC300 analog DV converter would produce a high quality transfer.
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I can answer. I've transferred about 300 vhs tapes over to DVD, AVI, MP4, etc.
Quality is dependent upon the quality of the VHS. I have VHS tapes that were created directly from digital video camcorder (medical procedures, surgery training) and the DVD quality is as good as any high quality commercial DVD. I have BetaMax tapes from the 70's and they burn to DVD from EyeTV as good if not better then their original quality. With EyeTV you have several quality options and can select Progressive Scan (which doubles the number of video lines for higher quality. You'll need at least 4Gigs of space for each VHS tape but once burned to DVD you can delete and move to the next.
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As for easy - yes, it's pretty straight forward. If you have a two hour VHS movie, say a commercial release of an older James Bond (which is non-Macro, i.e., encrypted) movie it will take two hours to record it. Once recorded you can then edit the items you don't want (warnings, junk...) save the edited file (very quickly) then click on the EyeTV Toast icon and burn it to DVD. If using Progressive Scan you'll get a very high quality DVD. How much time required to burn the DVD depends. If you are using a 3Ghz Mac Pro with 8 Gigs of RAM (my system) it takes about 20-30 minutes.
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What size files do you get for an average 30 mins show?
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As it is MPEG 2 you can not play the native files using Quicktime (however the eyeTV software can play them). If you export as MPEG 2 then you will need the MPEG 2 component for Quicktime, or play them with VLC.
A 30 min show is approx 500MB.
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