Miglia EvolutionTV - any experiences ?

Hi,

does anybody use EvolutionTV by Miglia ? What are your experiences ?

(The alternative is EyeTV 200 but it is rather expensive compared to
the Miglia solution.)

Thanks, Simone

In article <fb59db7d.0507180249.68cb940b.TakeThisOut@posting.google.com>, Simone
<spitz_s.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> does anybody use EvolutionTV by Miglia ? What are your experiences ?
>
> (The alternative is EyeTV 200 but it is rather expensive compared to
> the Miglia solution.)
>
> Thanks, Simone

I don't know where to begin with this except to say that I have a case
of buyer's remorse over this equipment.

I have a G5 Dually 2.5ghz with 2.5 megs of RAM. I installed the
software and then got an update from their website.

For one thing, I have a hard time getting the box to light up. No
amount of dicking with the cables, USB, or power block and cable will
do the job. I still don't know what turns it on, so I try to leave it
on as much as possible. If there's a power outage or it has to be
disconnected, then I might have to wait a day to several days before it
decides to light up.

Another problem was freezes. It will record then suddenly freeze.
Someone in another group told me to give it a dedicated USB port and
not use it on a hub, and that seemed to help, although it still freezes
during recording maybe one time in ten recordings, meaning starting a
clip over again.

Getting the hardware to initialize is also a test of will. Sometimes
it initializes right away while at other times the ball will spin and I
can sit there all day and... nothing. I would say 1 time out of three
it initializes, one time out of three the ball spins and I can force
quit, and one time out of three it freezes up the whole shebang and I
have to force a restart of the computer.

However, once in a while everything lights up and goes right. It makes
fine recordings. The files I make with it are mp4's and they drop
right into iMovie and crop nice into great movies. I usually make
several clips (no more than 1/2 hour long). After the clips are made,
dropped into iMovie, cropped, and other features are added, I send it
over to iDVD and it makes menus and scenes. Of course none of this is
Miglia, I just wanted to say that the Miglia clips work perfectly with
iMovie and iDVD.

I have no way to compare EvolutionTV with anything else since this is
my first try at converting my off-air cassette recordings to DVD. When
it works, it's impressive. But I think, knowing what I know now, that
I'd spend my money on something else.

Hope that helps.