The Tube for Mac

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• New realease

  marketing27March 3, 2009

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  The Tube 2.9.3

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  ? Tuning has been improved drastically. We recommend running "File ? Search Channels..." again ? Now supports Pinnacle PCTV DVB-T Stick 70e ? Now supports Terratec Cinergy T USB XXS ? DVB-T / DTT problems with older EyeTV hybrid devices have been solved ? Now supports the new EyeTV DTT (introduced August 08) ? Now supports EyeTV DTT Deluxe ? The program guide update dialog window will no longer reappear after a while if you select "not now". ? Changed timer for EPG update to 15 secs ? Fixed an issue where attaching a device might interrupt playback of recordings

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• The Tube 2.9.2

  marketing27January 2, 2009

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  New: <UL> <LI>New: Transform your iPhone into a mobile TV receiver with Live TV</LI> <LI>New: Now Supports Pinnacle PCTV? nanoStick</LI> <LI>Fixed a significant crash which occured when using TubeGuide US</LI> </UL>

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  New: <UL> <LI>New: Transform your iPhone into a mobile TV receiver with Live TV</LI> <LI>New: Now Supports Pinnacle PCTV? nanoStick</LI> <LI>Fixed a significant crash which occured when using TubeGuide US</LI> </UL>

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• Still A-Grade Rubbish

  one_wonMarch 22, 2008

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />OK, here we go again with the latest version (2.5.1) of this software. Sound has now returned on HD channels here in Australia. As for the rest of it- forget it. To give this software the fairest test it could ever hope for I started with a "clean sheet" on a brand new MBP with a clean install of 10.5.2 with a zeroed out HD and The Tube being the only third party software installed. From a fairness in testing point of view it never gets better than that. Once installed the software seemed to work better than the previous rubbish with a very minor glitch of the default install sound setting is set at zero. Given the control freak nature of The Tube's inventors I was surprised to find that, yes, the volume control was actually user adjustable. It managed to find all the channels that it should for my area and picture quality is good. However, adjusting viewing size is not recommended, as this sends it off into a fit, and normal size cannot be obtained after that short off trashing the preference file. While a manual recording works ok, doing a scheduled recording was a different story. I set it up to record while the computer was asleep which meant according to The Tube's preferences settings it would wake up the computer, launch the program then go back to sleep. Ah no. It didn't do that at all. On the first attempt it woke the computer, recorded the program, but didn't put it back to sleep. This failure to return to sleep has obviously had a profound effect on its scheduling ability. No longer does it wake to record. And even with the computer awake it does not record the channel you selected, but you get a different channel. The only way to solve this is to do a complete re-install of everything, which means you use up another blessing from the tin gods at Equinux that allows only six lives to its products. Not sure why they feel a need to do this. No one is going to 'steal' their software. That would be like imaging someone is going to break into your place to steal the dog's crap from the back yard. It just isn't going to happen. Or if you did catch some lunatic trying to pinch dog crap, you wouldn't call the police, but you would call the folk in charge of mental health, as one of their clients has obviously stopped taking their medication. In conclusion all I can say is that despite this version being four times the install file size of the original, it still fails miserably to make a scheduled recording. The software still rates, quiet deservedly too I might add, as the worse ever piece of software ever produced. AVOID! Oh, BTW did I mention how bad it is at exporting recorded files? No you don't need to know that story for now, but it is bad.

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• Poor support and product.

  mr.187February 23, 2008

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I've had the Tube and the tubestick (TV tuner), and its fails to work with any version of their software, I've even put Mac OS 10.4 back on my machine, still fails to tune in to any stations and it's not a signal issue. Tech support, so far haven't replied to my emails, but they are contactable on ichat, every Tuesday!!!!!!! When I did finally get in contact with them via ichat they were not much help, just getting me to reinstall the software for the 3rd or 4th time. Stay away from this product more for the lack of support.

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• The Search For Worst Ever App Is Over!

  one_wonOctober 27, 2007

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />This is the worst ever Mac app I have attempted to use. It is more like a Micro$oft build. And like Micro$oft's imposing attitude, it seeks to everything to everybody and succeeds in being nothing to anyone with a very clunking piece of crap. Scheduled recordings don't happen, and that is after you set it to record one channel and it wants to record a different one to the one you set, no matter how you try to overcome that. You end up with a blank recording. But hey, it can't even find a signal for channels it previously found with several channels. The whole thing is just one huge mess, made by some very incompentent people who seem fixated that someone is going to rip off their software. Forget it guys. No one half sane is going to steal your software as it is absolutely hopeless. Do not waste your money on anything that uses this software. That means Equinux's own TubeStick and, interestingly, most everything Miglia makes in TV devices for a Mac now days. Not sure why Miglia uses this over Alchemy TV that they used in the past. Definitely a major backwards step. This is not a poor as in one star rating, but a poor as in a minus five star rating.

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