http://www.techchee.com/2007/01/13/instant-video-to-go-rapid-convertion-to-portable-video-formats/ Gadget vista, shop & buy online, gadget online store, corporate gift, software, web 2.0 and tech news Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:29:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.techchee.com/2007/01/13/instant-video-to-go-rapid-convertion-to-portable-video-formats/#comment-796 TechChee.com, shop online for gadget and hot tech stuff » Blog Archive » Elgato Turbo stick painlessly converts videos for your iPod Tue, 03 Apr 2007 12:02:28 +0000 http://techchee.com/?p=207#comment-796 [...] We’ve seen Instant Video-To-Go before that uses the hardware solution to speed up the conversion of any video format into the only format, H.264, which is playable on iPod/iPhone. Here is another one, the Elgato Turbo 264, which is specially made as a Mac compatible USB stick, having similar functionality, coverts any video format into H.264 for your iPod, iPhone and Apple TV. The stick speeds up encoding by two up to four times the speed and takes the encoding process from the CPU to the stick so that you could work on your mac unrestricted. The stick could be used from any appilcation that uses Quicktime to export to H264 format for example iMovie HD or Elgato EyeTV. To use it with Quicktime you will need Quicktime Pro but Elgato also offers a simple application that comes with the stick to encode movies. Elgato’s Turbo 264 should be made availble in April for €99 ($132). [...] [...] We’ve seen Instant Video-To-Go before that uses the hardware solution to speed up the conversion of any video format into the only format, H.264, which is playable on iPod/iPhone. Here is another one, the Elgato Turbo 264, which is specially made as a Mac compatible USB stick, having similar functionality, coverts any video format into H.264 for your iPod, iPhone and Apple TV. The stick speeds up encoding by two up to four times the speed and takes the encoding process from the CPU to the stick so that you could work on your mac unrestricted. The stick could be used from any appilcation that uses Quicktime to export to H264 format for example iMovie HD or Elgato EyeTV. To use it with Quicktime you will need Quicktime Pro but Elgato also offers a simple application that comes with the stick to encode movies. Elgato’s Turbo 264 should be made availble in April for €99 ($132). [...]

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