The modestly priced TVMicro incorporates a TV tuner that lets you watch analog TV on your Mac in a resizable desktop window. Particularly well-suited for use with notebook computers is the TVMicro, which, being barely the size of an iPod shuffle, is small and light enough to take along anywhere you go with your ‘Book. The subjects of this review - the Miglia TVMicro and TVMax, both of which deliver TV video to your Mac have been designed by Miglia from the ground up as Mac-only devices - not PC products with Mac drivers patched on. With a TV tuner connected to your USB-2 equipped notebook, it is now possible to work away with, say, a World Series game broadcast playing in a window on your desktop, especially if your ‘Book has plenty of power for this sort of processor-intensive multitasking - a criterion that any Core Duo powered machine should satisfy nicely. Miglia Technology offers several ‘Book-compatible TV tuner devices and Elgato Software the EyeTV software to control them, all available in a bundled package at a reasonable price. If you want to watch TV on your Apple notebook, that capability is available now. One feature you can’t get in an Apple notebook - at least yet - is a TV tuner. One of the appealing attributes of notebook computers is their potential to serve as a self-contained, portable digital hubs - for general computing tasks, email, and Web-surfing of course, as a digital “darkroom” and “theater” for editing and displaying your photos, a music machine thanks to MP3s, MIDI, and iTunes, and even a home video maker with the built-in iSight cameras in MacBook Pros and MacBooks, all controllable with an Apple Digital Remote. Watch TV On Your ‘Book - Miglia TVMicro and TVMax Television Tuners/Recorders Reviewed Home > Columns > Charles Moore The 'Book Mystique
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