Hardware reference guide

Hardware Reference Guide EyeTV 500

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)