UK website RegHardware, has a nice review of the new Elgato Turbo.264 USB hardware H.264 encoder for the Mac. I received my Turbo.264 and have encoded some video with it on a Intel Mac mini and an iMac G5 and have had similar results as the testing shown on the RegHardware site. It makes a nice add-on for anyone that uses the Elgato EyeTV to record TV shows for the iPod or Apple TV use and still want to make DVDs out of some of the recordings.

Elgato’s Turbo.264 is a USB device (30mm x 85mm x 12mm) that provides hardware-accelerated encoding of video to H.264 MP4 files with the included software or with many Mac applications that offer QuickTime export. For $99.95 U.S. the Turbo.264 can be a well worth expense for time-saved for some of us that encode a lot of video for the Apple TV, iPods or Sony PSP. You will need Mac OS X 10.4 on a G4, G5, or Intel Mac with a built-in USB 2.0 port to use this device.

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