![]() ![]() Customers can now watch record, edit and enjoy cable and satellite in high-definition, including all their premium channels. – – Today, Elgato debuted the world's only DVR solution which provides full access to premium cable or satellite TV content on a Mac – EyeTV HD. Updated EyeTV 3.4 software will enable streaming of live or recorded TV on Apple's® iPad ![]() And for anyone who travels often with a laptop - or who wants to use a Mac as a primary TV viewer or video archive - EyeTV is a very creative solution.Press Release: Elgato Debuts EyeTV HD – The Ultimate DVR for High Definition TVįull-featured DVR captures television, including premium channels, from cable or satellite receivers and delivers it live to Macs At only $199 and no monthly fees, the price isn’t bad. Macworld’s Buying AdviceĮyeTV is not a direct replacement for a set-top DVR, but it brings most of the benefits of DVRs to your Mac - and in some cases adds to them. Also, you can burn standard-quality videos to a VideoCD, which will play on computers and many newer set-top DVD players. You can save them as QuickTime MPEG-1 files, playable on any Mac (or PC) with QuickTime Player. You watch programs from within the EyeTV viewer, and can do so at any size, just as when you use EyeTV to watch live TV.ĮyeTV also gives you the power to permanently archive your shows after you’ve watched them. Just as with a DVR, you can watch any program in any order and delete individual shows. Once you’ve recorded something, you get to take advantage of the nonlinear, hard drive based benefits of EyeTV. ![]() You can also opt to record to any hard drive you want, and the number of hours you can store depends solely on the size of your drive. You can pick either option for all shows, but currently the software doesn’t allow you to record individual programs at different quality settings. The Normal Size option uses a data rate of 170 Kbps, which translates to about 615MB of hard-drive space per hour the high-quality option is double the data size, and it looks better. You can pick one of two quality settings for recording your shows. The size of recordings always appears on your monitor at 320 by 240 pixels, but the quality is not as good as that of MPEG-2quality DVRs. The amount of hard-drive space EyeTV uses is hardly paltry, but it’s reasonable given the picture quality you get. EyeTV won’t start up your computer, nor will it wake your Mac from sleep to start a recording. One important difference between EyeTV and set-top DVRs is that a set-top DVR is a computer that’s always running, but using EyeTV requires that your Mac be on and awake whenever you want to record. From within the EyeTV software, you can also schedule manual recordings, pad them on either end, and create recordings that repeat daily and weekly. Click again, and your browser downloads a small file that tells EyeTV what to record and when. When you find a program you want to record, click on the red record icon in the listing on the Web site. ![]() But unlike TiVo, EyeTV doesn’t let you record an entire program if you begin recording after it has started. While TiVo’s buffer is set at 30 minutes, you determine how much hard-drive space EyeTV puts aside for its buffer, which can accommodate much more than 30 minutes. Like other DVRs, EyeTV has a recording buffer that captures whatever you’re watching - it’s this feature that allows for conveniences such as pausing live TV and using the instant-replay function. Although EyeTV doesn’t come with a handheld remote, Keyspan’s $49 Digital Media Remote (510/222-0131, A floating on-screen interface that looks like a remote control gives you access to functions such as play, pause, record, jump (for skipping 30 seconds at a time - ideal for avoiding commercials), and instant replay (for jumping back 7 seconds). Once you use EyeTV 1.0.2’s simple Setup Assistant, you’re ready for prime time and can begin watching live TV on your Mac. It’s the software, however, that makes EyeTV not just a USB video-capture device but a full-fledged DVR. ![]()
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