

Note: The EyeTV hardware is not compatible with Windows or Linux and is designed specifically for Macintosh operating systems and computers. You can even use the EyeTV 250 Plus on your main television, by connecting your Mac directly and using the included remote. You can record shows, export them in a variety of formats, and stream to your iPod Touch or iPhone, or use with various media streamers/extenders. It will take the signal from your cable or antenna (including ClearQAM signals) and allow you to watch television on your Mac. What's great about the EyeTV is that it solves every one of my issues and gives me lots of freedom with my shows, with no monthly fees - an exciting solution for DVR noobs like me, or veterans as well.īasically, the EyeTV is a DVR and analog/digital TV converter for your Macintosh computer. That's not to say that I never looked upon my friends' ReplayTV or TiVo units with jealousy, or that I never watched TV - but more that I was never really a TV "geek."ĭVR technology has been available for quite some time, and you could say that I'm a "late adopter" here. I can't get enough of Apple products, qualifying for "fan" but falling short of "fanboy."īut, until now, one thing I have not really gotten into is television.

I've had more PDA's and cellphones than I can count and have a pretty extensive vintage game collection. a Magic card player, a Pokemon addict, a Civilization builder, a "Second Quest" completer.
Eyetv compatible update#
Elgato says this problem will be fixed in the next update to the EyeTV software.Throughout my geeky history, I've been an awful lot of things. For example, I exported the same 1080i episode of The Daily Show to iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV formats, and all three had the same 640-by-360-pixel dimensions. However, I encountered a major bug in the software that caused problems using the Export option in EyeTV-recordings didn’t export with the proper frame sizes for their respective presets. Doing so takes up more room on your hard drive, but makes it much faster to export the video to iTunes for syncing to your iPhone or iPod touch.
Eyetv compatible portable#
With the EyeTV HD, you can choose to encode video in Best, Better, or Good quality, which captures video at the same resolution and frame rate as the source output (although you can’t tell what the bit rate or hard drive space requirements are for each unless you’re actually capturing video), or encode for iPad (scaled to work on Apple’s portable device).Īt the same time, however, you can also create a 480-pixel-wide iPhone version-the hardware can encode two streams simultaneously. The EyeTV software works pretty much the same as it does with theĮyeTV Hybrid (2010) ( ), with a few notable differences. The whole process took less than 10 minutes. The EyeTV Setup Assistant did a fine job walking me through the process of hooking up the hardware and configuring it to work with my receiver, picking my TV provider and channel lineup, and testing the IR blaster to make sure everything was working right. The Setup Assistant helps you make sure everything is working fine. That might mean using a laptop or having a very long USB cable running across the floor. Because you connect the EyeTV HD to a set-top box, you’ll obviously need a Mac within USB-cable range of one TV in your abode.
Eyetv compatible pro#
I tested the EyeTV HD with an H20 HD receiver from DirecTV, connected to a newĬore i5 2.53GHz 17-inch MacBook Pro ( ).
