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Title: Fair and then it dies.
Review: After a year of use on my G-5 Dual 2Ghtz Mac the unit just up and quit. (Just after warrenty expired) Major among the continuing problems was the inabliity to record any file greater than 4 gigs. which of course excluded most longer TV shows etc. (Toast does not compress and Popcorn does not use the MPeg format) Another annoying problem was the frequent need to restart the unit by removing the firewire plug and replacing (as recommendated by the manual) Picture quality seemed to be above average but not spectacular. Not being able to put into a firewire chain is another negative (manual recommends isolated firewire connection). Lastly the unit is overpriced for the limited use and features and poor tech support. The tragedy is that there are relatively few such units available for Mac.
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