At only $99 USD retail, the Turbo.264 is a fantastic assistive device.
Introduction
These days, almost every Mac user in the world has some sort of collection of videos on his or her computer — home movies, TV shows, short clips, and even professionally produced videos. Watching those movies on the computer is easy; however, converting them to iPod or Apple TV format can be frustrating and terribly time consuming, especially for people with older G4 and G5 Macs. Elgato comes to the rescue with the Turbo.264 USB-based video encoder. Claiming to boost the speed of video conversions by upward of 1,200 percent, Elgato makes a pretty strong argument for buying their $99 USD product. We gave the Turbo.264 a thorough test to see if it lives up to the hype. Read on to see how it fared and if it's something you should buy.
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by CBI on January 27, 2009:
“I could not praise this product enough! It has done wonders for my encoding. Before a regular 1hr30 movie would take well over 5 hours to convert to iPhone using Handbrake on my G4 Powerbook, but with the Turbo 264, it takes about an 1hr50! Massive change...” More...