Hardware Reference Guide EyeTV 500
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EyeTV 500 HDTV digital TV recorder
for free over-to-air (ATSC)
and digital cable (Clear QAM)
television
This hardware reference guide describes the particulars of your EyeTV hard-
ware.
EyeTV 500 System Requirements
EyeTV 500 requires the following minimum system configuration:
• Macintosh computer with minimum PowerPC® G4 500Mhz or
G5 processor. Dual G5 processor required for HDTV playback
at full frame rate at full 1080i resolution
• A built-in FireWire port or independently powered FireWire
hub
• Mac OS X 10.3 or later (Mac OS X v10.3.7 recommended), with
256 MB RAM (512 MB recommended)
• Minimum 20 MB free hard disk space
• Approximately 8 GB of free hard disk space for each hour of
video to be recorded
• QuickTime 6.5
• Off-the-air antenna (optimized for HDTV reception) for broad-
cast over-the-air TV reception (not included) or
• Basic digital cable subscription from your local cable pro-
vider for broadcast digital cable TV reception (Clear QAM)
• An Internet connection to use EyeTV’s Electronic Program
Guide (EPG) (Optional)
• A CD or DVD burner and Toast 6 Titanium CD recording soft-
ware to create Video CDs, Super Video CDs or DVDs
(optional)