Comments on: Miglia TVMax +

By: Chris Marshall

Chris Marshall — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:06:14 +0000

Miglia went bust some time ago so the EyeTV 250 is your best bet for sure.

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:43:30 +0000

Hi, I’ve narrowed my decision down to either the Miglia TVMax+ or the EyeTV 250 Plus. I need a hardware encoder since my Macs are single processor G4 and G5 machines. I like that the Miglia TVMax+ can encode in mp4, which saves space, but I like the smaller form factor and greater market maturity of the EyeTV 250 Plus better. Both use the same EyeTV 3.x software, right? Other than the form factor and encoding differences, are there any other major differences between these two units? (Note that I also considered the HDHomerun, but I ruled it out because my cable is analog with only a few digital channels in the lineup. The HDHomerun only handles digital, so it won’t work for me, which is too bad b/c it’s a great concept.)

By: Baz

Baz — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:33:24 +0000

Well i bought the mini tv stick and have miglia tv and as yet have no ser key. have emailed and gone through support on the website and not one reply so not sure on there after sales! lots of money and still cant do nothing!!

By: Per Tormod

Per Tormod — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:07:17 +0000

Miglia TVMax+ software with activation code?
I can,t find my cd after reinstalled my HD on MacBookPro
Need software with activation code for OSX

By: Chris Marshall

Chris Marshall — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 21:19:47 +0000

No problem – sorry it has taken me a while, but have been somewhat ill.

This is their current statement:

“Itâ€™s still being worked on, so I donâ€™t have a precise date just yet. Weâ€™re currently working on improving performance while browsing the movie”

I am sure that I can get you a beta copy

By: Steve Carlton

Steve Carlton — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 16:28:06 +0000

[quote post="901"]The edit function is beta and does crash from time to time, but it gets the job done and obviously will be robust when it is released[/quote]

Hi Chris, hope you don’t mind me resurrecting this topic!

Do you happen to know if the edit function is out of Beta yet? I’ve looked through the PDF manual for the MigliaTV software but it doesn’t seem to mention editing at all.

Cheers!

By: Chris Marshall » Blog Archive » Miglia TV adverts

Chris Marshall » Blog Archive » Miglia TV adverts — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:28:14 +0000

[...] on from the post last week on the Miglia TVMax+ I wanted to point out a couple of very ‘Mac like’ adverts that they have produced and [...]

By: Chris Marshall

Chris Marshall — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 08:27:21 +0000

Yes you can. The edit function is beta and does crash from time to time, but it gets the job done and obviously will be robust when it is released.

By: Phil Bridges

Phil Bridges — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 08:17:17 +0000

Once a video is saved in iTunes format can you still edit out the commercials\ top and tail it etc afterwards?

By: Chris Marshall

Chris Marshall — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 19:26:32 +0000

Thanks for taking the time to comment and for your view – no doubt you feel better for getting that off your chest

PS – Moreno says he isn’t stupid

By: Johnson

Johnson — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 16:38:21 +0000

Is this guy taking the piss? He drowns on every week about his ‘great life’ in Spain and the next thing I see is a link (cap in hand) for a Mac Pro Fund. Why the fuck should anyone give this fucker money so he can purchase a high en Apple when the rest of us have to buy our own?

Go fuck yourself buddy along with your stupid fucking cat… you should be ashamed… believe me no body gives a shit!

M Johnson
Cov Uni

By: Chris Marshall

Chris Marshall — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 20:57:50 +0000

Elgato are a German compnay with a subsidiary in the USA. Neither of which are on the UK side of the pond in my (biased) view!!!

The ‘lack’ of encoding is just one of the really great things about the Miglia stuff.

I hope to get an AppleTV at some stage. I know I don’t need one, but heh I reckon I need all this stuff for research and integrity reasons.

MyVu is cool but in my view yet another ‘gimmick’ that will last a month and you will get fed up with it. I intend to have the best part of 1TB of movies on hard drive, all in the iTunes library and all accessible through the network on any TV so I just want things that make that configuration work. Again, is a personal view but I have no need or desire to watch a movie or TV show on my iPod. Maybe if I start travelling again, but even then more likley to use the PSP.

By: Wayne LeFevre

Wayne LeFevre — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:39:35 +0000

[quote comment="8760"]AppleTV 100%. I have no intention of watching a movie on the iPod, and although I don’t (yet) have an AppleTV my current set up effectively does the same thing as all my films are going to be accessible through the iTunes library.[/quote]

I love going through iTunes coverflow when looking at movies. It’s one of the main reasons that I wanted to put my movies into iTunes. That, and one of these days, I will be getting one of those AppleTV’s. Maybe version 2? Maybe when I actually get an HDTV?

Reason I asked was that I just reviewed the MyVu video for the iPod and was wondering if it would be worth saving to iPod or sticking with AppleTV.

By: Wayne LeFevre

Wayne LeFevre — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:36:45 +0000

Ah, my fault. When Blake asked “The VideoExpress from Miglia sounds like a pretty cool H.264 encoder. How are the file sizes?”, well, the VideoExpress is the h.264 hardware encoder so I assumed when you answered him that you had it. My bad. Sorry. Didn’t realize that TVMax+ encoded on the fly.

Hey, didn’t you mention on Tim’s show that you where sticking with Miglia because you wanted to stay on that side of the pond? Isn’t elgato english? Or is it German? I guess I could go look, but that would take a extra 30 secondsâ€¦;)

By: Chris Marshall

Chris Marshall — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:32:48 +0000

AppleTV 100%. I have no intention of watching a movie on the iPod, and although I don’t (yet) have an AppleTV my current set up effectively does the same thing as all my films are going to be accessible through the iTunes library.

By: Chris Marshall

Chris Marshall — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:29:44 +0000

I would hold off on the eyeTV Hybrid. I know for a fact that Miglia are bringing out a siilar product shortly and I would serioulsy wait for that so that at the very least you have a choice!

h.264 hardware encoder? REmind me when I said that All I have looked at with Miglia recently has been the TVMax+ and that automatically encodes as it records.

The HDHomeRun does look impressive I admit.

By: Wayne LeFevre

Wayne LeFevre — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:26:28 +0000

Oh, here’s another one. What are you encoding in? AppleTV or iPod High?

By: Wayne LeFevre

Wayne LeFevre — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:23:52 +0000

So Chris, now you've pretty much stumbled upon my movies workflow. After the turbo.264 came out with their new 1.1 software with a lot more options that you can choose, it's a lot more difficult choosing between it and VisualHub. It sure is easy either way, though. After that, I too use MetaX. Since they came out with 2.1, it's been fantastic to be able to queue up a bunch of movies at one time. I was going to get Elgato's eyeTV hybrid, which I guess is like Miglia's? However, they recently came out with the HDHomeRun for the Mac, which I think is worth taking a look at! It's like an eyeTV NAS. This, I think, would be really cool. Still looking for a decent workflow for chapterizing mp4's, though. So did you say you have the h.264 hardware encoder from Miglia? How is that working out? How is it's software? How does it compare with VH?

By: Chris Marshall

Chris Marshall — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 15:27:00 +0000

Well you see for me over here in Spain I only get one channel that I want to recortd – Sky, the satellite feed, so I pick up whatever channel I have sky set to.

They have a number of plugins that you can select from for TV schedules though: tvtv, TitanTV, iEPG. Don’t know if any of those help you?

By: Mac Sokulski

Mac Sokulski — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 14:38:10 +0000

I’m very curious about which electronic program guides Miglia’s software support. eyeTV has been promising a Canadian program guide for years now, and nothing. Is Miglia any different? With out proper EPG support it makes this product absolutely useless for scheduling recordings. Watching TV, I have normal TV’s for that.

By: Chris Marshall

Chris Marshall — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:42:51 +0000

From what I have seen (and know) I would be more than happy to suggest you go with Miglia. I think their product will be better once they have tidies up the editing feature, and I don’t think you will be missing anything if you go with them.

What do you have in mind? Maybe I can give you a “heads up”

By: Shawn Plank

Shawn Plank — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:07:59 +0000

I probably would have already bought an Elgato EyeTV product by now if it weren’t for Miglia. As a result, I still have neither. I like Miglia’s promise of no file conversion time after recording. It baffles me that Elgato does not record natively in a format you would actually use. However, Elgato still appears to be the industry leader, its software is more mature and apparently has better features for things like editing. So as someone who has used both, is Miglia’s product better? And what would I be missing if I didn’t go with Elgato?

By: Chris Marshall

Chris Marshall — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 06:31:03 +0000

A typical film is coming in at an average of 1.2GB. I found the average in .eyetv format to be closer to 4GB.

By: Blake Brannon

Blake Brannon — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 01:20:35 +0000

Pretty cool. I have often thought of getting a tuner but don’t watch enough TV to justify it. The VideoExpress from Miglia sounds like a pretty cool H.264 encoder. How are the file sizes?