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align="right" vspace="4" border="0" />In the US, all of the new HDTV cable boxes are required to have a
Firewire port on them. And if you have Mac running OS X, all you need to record some high-definition TV on your
computer is a long enough Firewire cable — and the right (i.e. free) software. Apple conveniently provides an
HDTV-capable recorder in their developer tools, which a crafty coder has pulled out and given to us as a slightly
modified, slightly friendlier version. The app still isn’t exactly user friendly — apparently even Apple
engineers can be known to write applications only other engineers can use — but Mac OS X Hints has some clear
instructions on how to use the application to record HD programming, which should do the trick until
someone puts a nice, user-friendly face on this recorder.