" Dear Mike,
I doubt the EyeTV Wonder will work with a USB 2.0 PC card. The EyeTV 1.7.1 software for EyeTV Wonder USB 2.0 installs special USB 2.0 updates to the Mac 10.3.8 OS as it will not run properly without updating its USB 2.0. It's doubtful that a 3rd party card would work properly. (I reminded him that there are USB 2.0 PCcards/PCI cards that are natively supported in 10.3.x - those using the NEC chipset for instance - for example the Sumvision 4-port USB2 PCMCIA card mentioned in yesterday's news. How well they perform is another matter however. In fact, my onboard USB 2.0 G5 and PB G4 have less than stellar USB 2.0 performance - about half the performance of their FW400 ports in tests with the same FW400/USB 2.0 cased hard drive.-Mike)

There has also been alot of speculation about using the EyeTV Wonder with a Mac mini and I would not advise that either. AMUG has just posted a detailed review of the EyeTV Wonder for those interested in it's features (including a mini section) at:
http://www.amug.org/amug-web/html/amug/reviews/articles/eyetv/

Those that try to use the EyeTV Wonder with a single processor Macintosh including the Mac mini will find that the ATI Wonder hardware places all the work on your Mac. Trying to record a Standard (120DVD) MPEG2 file took 80% of the Mac mini's processor.
Most PowerBook and iBook users will find the EyeTV Wonder requires more CPU than they have for recording MPEG2. In our tests this makes the USB 2.0 PC card question moot unless all the user wants to do is watch TV. The AMUG review goes into detail on CPU usage for those interested. I hope this helps.
Your friends at AMUG,
Michael Bean
TEAM AMUG "

(Update - see Wednesday's news page which has a report from a G4 tower owner using EyeTV USB Wonder with a USB 2.0 PCI card.) Unfortunately there's no hardware MPEG encoder in the TV Wonder, as Elgato TV wonder USB 2.0 page says:

"it makes full use of the USB 2.0 bus standard to transfer raw, uncompressed video directly to your Mac, delivering superior quality TV....
The compression, which is necessary for the record mode, takes place on the Mac."

BTW - a reader sent a reminder on Miglia's Evolution TV (I'd fogotten it was mentioned in last Thursday's news)

" Mike
Just as a follow up to those worried about the performance penalties of using the Elgato TV Wonder USB 2.0.

Miglia are soon to be releasing the EvolutionTV, which should put much less stress on the host system as the video is compressed onboard the device. Quite remarkably it offers direct compression into MPEG2/4 or divx. This is a welcome direction to see a hardware TV capture product going, specially something that you want to run a lot of the time you are on the machine without a great performance penalty.

However I am a little perplexed by the requirement of USB 2.0 quoted for this device, since the bandwidth required for the compressed video should be quite low.
http://www.miglia.com/products/video/evolutiontv/index.html
Edward C. "

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