Advice for a TV card/EyeTV?

[dada2]

Hi everyone,

I'm a long-time Mac user (since the OS8 days) and I'd like to try building a budget Hackintosh for home/non-pro things (I use an 11" Air for my work). So I looked up the Buyer's Guide and I think the Mini-ITX build might be for me.

There's one thing that I'd like to have in addition, which is a TV card/EyeTV of some sort. Specifically one that I can use to hook up my Playstation 1. So it should support S-Video (I don't really care much about the TV aspect!) It should support at least PAL, preferably both PAL and NTSC.
I searched the forum and found this topic which suggests there's only EyeTV for Mac, and no TV cards at all. So maybe someone has a suggestion as for which one to get, since they have so many.

Thanks a lot for any help you might offer!

 

[agrajag]

If you want real time feedback from the playstation then you should get the Game Capture HD. The regular EyeTV units output lag by a second or so. If you just want to record without looking at the recorded video then a regular unit would work. Just make sure the EyeTV unit input accepts the output video from the PlayStation. There are quite a few EyeTV units on eBay these days as folks move away from TV.

 

[dada2]

Sorry for bumping a topic on page 2 but I hadn't said thanks yet! I'll probably get the Game Capture HD. Altho I'm pretty sure it won't support *both* PAL and NTSC component signals (emailed support about that).