El Gato releases EyeTV EZ

One of these days I'm going to start posting about my experiences using El Gato's EyeTV USB Wonder. The one with ATI branding. But for those of you craving the terrestrial signals, or just looking to plug that PS2 into your Mac, the EyeTV EZ is for you. Looks like a cheap no-account cousin to the USB Wonder. No fancy recording, but you do get bus-powered magic. Pop it into your USB port and away you go!

If it's like my EyeTV you'll need a factory-original USB 2.0 port (last time I checked El Gato wasn't supporting 3rd party add-on cards), and some horsepower. The reason their latest USB gear is so cheap is because they no longer have MPEG encoding built into the device. Rather, the device relies on the Mac's CPU (and software) to encode the video. This was a problem for me, because I had to have a dual G5 to record the best quality video... Since it doesn't look like you'll be allowed to record with the EZ, I guess you'll just need the minimum G4 chip.