Elgato’s EyeTV is a DVR for your Mac. The box sits between your various entertainment receivers and your computer and lets you watch and record anything. And we mean anything. Hook up your cable box, satellite receiver or even your VCR (you still have a VCR, right?) via component, composite or s-video and you can store it on your hard drive or watch live. The only thing it wont do is hook up to live TV broadcast over the air, but who watches those anymore?
The box connects to the Mac via USB and rips video to H.264. It’s bus-powered, so no extra power cable is needed, and there’s an IR blaster port (complete with a remote control and an IR beamer) to let you change channel on the input devices direct from your Mac.
Input runs up to 1080i (and 720p), as does output, and there’s one more trick. The box can simultaneously lay down iPhone and iPad-friendly video formats which you can either throw into iTunes to watch later, or stream direct to the device. The new part here is the iPad support, which will work when the companion EyeTV update hits the App Store (free upgrade). Yup, live TV on the iPad. Neat.
How much? $200, which isn’t bad if you already have a Mac, and you don’t already own a TiVo. Available now.
EyeTV HD [Elgato]
See Also:
- Elgato EyeTV Hybrid: Smaller, Works With Windows 7
- Hands On With Elgato's EyeTV Hybrid
- Watch iPhone Video Over 3G With EyeTV Web App
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