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Article: Alchemy can turn Mac into recorder.(BUSINESS)(ON COMPUTERS)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- May 17, 2005
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Byline: Mark Kellner, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Alchemy DVR is a card that'll slip into G4 and G5 PowerPC Macintosh computers and let you hook up a cable line, over-the-air or satellite antenna, and turn your Mac into a "personal video recorder," or PVR, as well as a rather nice desktop TV.
One of the greatest attractions is the price: $159 for the board and software, which is a bargain of sorts, because competing products, mostly external boxes that connect to the Mac, can cost double that, if not more.
But a bargain is no bargain if it doesn't work: My first unit couldn't be "seen" by the Mac's brain, no matter how hard I tried. A replacement card ...