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<blockquote data-quote="bobtomay" data-source="post: 506735" data-attributes="member: 24160"><p>The EyeTV hybrid will record ota (remember this is your local over-the-air TV stations) digital signals. Some of these will be in what is called SD or Standard Definition and some will be in HD or Hi Definition. It will record whatever ota signal the tuner can pick up.</p><p></p><p>Part of your consideration between the Hybrid and the 250 Plus should be this: the Hybrid will use your CPU for encoding the video stream that you are capturing, the 250 Pro has it's own hardware encoder to take the bulk of the work off of your CPU. The processor in your Macbook should be plenty capable of taking the load dependant upon how much multi-tasking you want to do while recording. If you try to do a lot of other things while recording with the Hybrid, you may experience either slow downs on the system or pixelation in your recordings. I have the Hybrid (neither the 250 Pro nor the HD Homerun were out when I bought mine) and it seems to do an adequate job, although I don't use it much as my XP machine sits around all lonely nowadays, so I still use it for most of the recording from TV that I do.</p><p></p><p>Don't understand your last question.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bobtomay, post: 506735, member: 24160"] The EyeTV hybrid will record ota (remember this is your local over-the-air TV stations) digital signals. Some of these will be in what is called SD or Standard Definition and some will be in HD or Hi Definition. It will record whatever ota signal the tuner can pick up. Part of your consideration between the Hybrid and the 250 Plus should be this: the Hybrid will use your CPU for encoding the video stream that you are capturing, the 250 Pro has it's own hardware encoder to take the bulk of the work off of your CPU. The processor in your Macbook should be plenty capable of taking the load dependant upon how much multi-tasking you want to do while recording. If you try to do a lot of other things while recording with the Hybrid, you may experience either slow downs on the system or pixelation in your recordings. I have the Hybrid (neither the 250 Pro nor the HD Homerun were out when I bought mine) and it seems to do an adequate job, although I don't use it much as my XP machine sits around all lonely nowadays, so I still use it for most of the recording from TV that I do. Don't understand your last question. [/QUOTE]
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