And only a few of them work correctly with MacOS. There's a lot of devices, which offers you transfer video from VHS to your hard drive. I needed a solution to make this analog video become digital. I have 3 dozens of VHS-cassettes with my childhood recordings, my parents travels, and so on. If you want to watch on a bigger screen than your computer for the price of a couple of cables (and an hour googling which ones to buy) you can. You can also convert the recorded programmes into itouch/ iphone compatible formats and store them on your itouch's memory so you can watch them when not connected to the internet.
Wow! That is absolutely amazing! The quality of the picture is excellent. I've also bought the app for it and can now watch live or recorded TV streamed over the internet by the eyeTV Hybrid straight to my itouch. The only extra I needed to buy was a USB extension cable to put the aerial closer to the window. The eyeTV Hybrid seemed to promise to do everything I wanted and to my surprise as a novice technophobe I managed to set it up and get it working without a hitch. I recently bought my first Mac computer and shortly after decided I wanted to record programmes off the TV. The way to check is if you use the supplied USB extension cable to move the EyeTV dongle away from the iMac (and if possible, shield it behind something) then signal quality is restored to 100% and remains there solidly.
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Having done a bit of research into this, I suspect that there is interference from the iMac - be it the processor, the aluminium body, the wifi or the bluetooth - something is causing this signal quality degradation. When the signal quality drops below 40% you get pixelation, drop outs, lost audio and generally it removes any enjoyment of watching digital TV as you miss every third work. There was, however, a problem that was bothering me, namely that, when the USB stick was plugged in directly to the back of my iMac, the signal strength would be solidly 100% but the signal quality would vary between 100% and 0%, and frequently oscillate between 40-80% very quickly. Overall this is a fantastic addition to an iMac 27 - and turns it into a great TV.
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Signal quality issue on iMacs (and how to fix it)