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 Elgato Turbo.264

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Written by: Jason Tomczak, July 9th, 2007

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Where to buy:

$89.99

Score: 7.5/10

“At only $99 USD retail, the Turbo.264 is a fantastic assistive device..”

Highs:
Must-have for G4 & G5 systems; easy to use; great video output

Lows:
Buggy/limited DVD conversion; no custom settings; no subtitles

Introduction

These days, almost every Mac user in the world has some sort of collection of videos on his or her computer — home movies, TV shows, short clips, and even professionally produced videos. Watching those movies on the computer is easy; however, converting them to iPod or Apple TV format can be frustrating and terribly time consuming, especially for people with older G4 and G5 Macs. Elgato comes to the rescue with the Turbo.264 USB-based video encoder. Claiming to boost the speed of video conversions by upward of 1,200 percent, Elgato makes a pretty strong argument for buying their $99 USD product. We gave the Turbo.264 a thorough test to see if it lives up to the hype. Read on to see how it fared and if it's something you should buy.

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"Elgato turbo.264 - a users perspective"

Mark Wise at Aug 16th, 2007 at 8:43 PM
Score: 7

Okay....I bought the turbo because around half my MP4 movies failed to appear on my AppleTV, though iTunes on my old mac mini had no problem with them. And half meant a 'lot' of time re-encoding.... For starters, the Turbo.264 is faster then doing it without. No question. However, as always there are drawbacks. If the file fails to convert (for whatever reason) Turbo.264 stops. Completely. And whatever files you had in your queue sit and wait for user intervention. Not good for overnight stints of conversions. Also, whilst I could run anoth...

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