Tv tuners

I've been researching the same thing. Here's what I know: you need usb 2.0, it will work with a straight coaxial cable.

http://www.miglia.com//Support/tvmicro/tvmicro_faq.htm

...it will work with a straight coaxial cable.

Wait a second. it will work with coaxial? or it MUST work with coaxial? I never read anything about this thing being able to pick up signals out of the air. If it does, that would make it truly worth the investment. Can anyone confirm this? and if it can't, are there any accessories that would enable it to be wireless. See the diagram for what I'm talking about:

Coaxial---->transmitter---->receiver---->TVMirco---->USB 2.0 port.

...appears to be a very nice little unit. Its the size of
a USB jump drive, plug your coaxial into on end, and the
other into a USB 2.0 and thats it. It also appears to
record at high resolutions, but only for Intel Macs.

Miglia makes the same exact thing.

http://www.miglia.com//products/video/tvmicro/index.html

The hybrid doesn't do hardware video encoding so it takes a lot of CPU power to record video. Some other units, such as the Elgato EyeTV 250 generate MPEG-2 via hardware.

I just purchased the TVMax by Miglia. Right now, I am going to have to rewire my cable line to run behind my bed for easy connection to the TVMAX which is connected to my MacBook Pro via USB 2.0

Is there any product that would allow me to transmit wirelessly what the TVMax picks up from the cable line? Kind of like the the Airport Express allows for wireless printing? I'm looking to set up a model like this:

WALL---cable--->TVMAX---usb--->[???????]---wireless--->MACBOOK PRO.

The [?????] represents the product I am looking for to help me make this work; possibly the Airport Express. Thanks in advance. If this isn't the appropriate forum, please direct me to the right one.

I have the Miglia TV Micro and it works great. I takes a coaxial cable that plugs into the back and then connects via USB to the computer. It is only analog, not digital. Elgato just released one that is analog and digital called the hybrid.

The Micro comes with eyetv2, so need need to purchase anything else. it also comes with a remote.


I highly recommend it.

I don't think you could get near the quality of USB 2.0.
However, they have wireless N that is supposed to be much
faster, but its not quite there yet. Maybe in the near
future.

In a press release it was announced that WUSB has been approved as a new standard for Wireless USB. This is supposed to replace USB 2.0 with wireless transfers on par with the 2.0 standard. I don't think any companies have implemented this in a consumer product as of yet. Read about it here.

http://www.usb.org/developers/wusb/

It takes a coaxial cable that plugs into the back and
then connects via USB to the computer

I just purchased the TVMax. I was playing with the idea of the TVMicro or the TVMini or TVMini HD, but ultimately I want the machine to do the hardware encoding, not my computer. You mentioned that you have a coaxial running to the TVMicro. That is just the thing I was trying to avoid and is why I'm looking for a wireless transmission solution. I thought maybe an Airport would be able to handle it, but that's only for printing. It seems that the new WUSB standard I mentioned above is going to be what I am looking for. The only thing is that it was just approved and announced so I don't think any product manufacturer's have implemented it in the form of a consumer product. If anyone has any news or updates to this let us know.

Your TV tuner will require an external power source.

I believe you're confusing the issue. The TVMax already has an external power supply. This is not the TVMicro or TVMini that just plugs right into the USB port. Those are BUS powered and require no external power. The TVMax on the other hand is a hardware encoder and has it's own power already.

What I am looking for now is a way to put the tuner near my cable outlet, and then transmit via WUSB (or similar technology) to either my router or directly to the Macbook Pro.