“…Los Gatos, Calif.-based El Gato Software plans to launch the EyeTV in an effort to level the playing field between Macs and PCs. Hauppauge and Pinnacle Systems are among a handful of companies making either internal or external personal video recorders (PVRs) for PCs. But to date, there are few such products for the Mac. Traditional recorders, such as TiVo or Sonicblue’s ReplayTV, attach to a televison and appeal to consumers who record shows ahead of time and watch them at their leisure. More recently, however, manufacturers have started producing PVRs for personal computers. Sony, for example, ships several Vaio consumer PCs with a built-in personal video recorder. El Gato executives felt the time was right for a Mac product…”
Click here to read the full story at CNET’s News.com. And here is the Slashdot discussion I found this story at.
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