Elegato has integrated its device with the Titan TV listing service. The service provides information about the TV programs that are tuned by the device, and is updated on a daily basis. When the program is tuned, information about what is on that particular channel shows in the viewing window and then disappears. The aspect ratio of the picture can be automatically adjusted, or manually set to standard formats. Indeed, there is even a picture-in-picture option to use the available tuner, composite, or S-video sources.
The Titan service makes recording a TV program a snap. I simply selected the program to be recorded from the schedule that showed up in the Web browser, and the schedule was automatically set. If the computer is on, it will attempt to record the program (if, on the other hand, you forget to turn your computer on, you're out of luck). Nice subtleties include having the recording start one minute before and after the scheduled time, just in case not everyone is synchronized.
The program list is also the way to access the full TV schedule, presented in a browser window with a rolling time line. To view a program in this window, you just click on the listing. EyeTV then tunes it in. Very simple and intuitive.
A cable is provided to allow analog video sources (like that old VCR cassette camera) to be digitized, viewed, and stored on the hard disk. You can select the quality of any stored image, which can allow for great savings in hard disk space. But it also means that the images are stored in a proprietary format that only EyeTV understands. And that doesn't help if you want to share that information.
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