EyeTV Hybrid - Mac TV tuner stick that receives free over-the-air (OTA) HDTV, Clear QAM & analog TV (10020630)
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Digital product summary information
Manufacturer: ElgatoModel: 10020630
Product features:
- Watch, pause, and rewind free over-the-air HDTV, Clear QAM or analog television on your Mac.
- Record TV shows, edit out unwanted content, then export videos in one easy step and synch automatically to your iPod, Apple TV, or iPhone.
- iPod Assistant to convert analog video to iPod/iPhone/Apple TV formats
- EyeTV?s integrated Program Guide harvests the TV listing data contained in over-the-air digital broadcasts as well as online sources such as TitanTV in the USA.
- Record hours of television on your Mac, create subscriptions to TV series and topics of your choice, manage saved episodes, and organize them in Smart Playlists.
Digital camera reviews of EyeTV Hybrid - Mac TV tuner stick that receives free over-the-air (OTA) HDTV, Clear QAM & analog TV (10020630)
Digital camera Review: A non-technie's experience...
Summary: 3 Stars
First of all, I have an older Mac - iMac G5 with a 1.8GHz processor. It doesn't have the Intel Duo processor, and I only recently upgraded to 1GB of RAM memory. So I wasn't sure if this product fit my needs - wanted to watch Cable TV on my Mac while Web surfing. The EyeTV Hybrid lets you do that, in about a YouTube sized window. That is adjustable, as well as picture quality and other settings, in the Preferences window. You can also grab the lower corner of the window to manually resize it. Of course, the bigger the window, the grainier the picture quality. The EyeTV 3 software runs smoothly when I am offline, but stutters when loading or scrolling a page on my browser.
A word about setup. I plugged the EyeTV tuner into my Mac and installed the software, but had to restart to get it to work. You will need an antenna or a cable outlet to hook up a coaxial cable to the tuner stick. The other end goes into a USB port (directly into the Mac, not a USB hub). I connected a cable directly to the EyeTV Hybrid - I have a digital cable box on my other TV. Without going through the cable receiver I didn't get all the channels but about the first 100 (Time Warner Digital Basic).
Overall, good but not HTDV quality. I've just started so don't know how well all the features work, or whether the software is solid - it crashed on me once, after installation. I think a faster processor/more memory may be needed to improve the tuner's performance. Also, a 500GB or greater capacity hard disk would probably be good to store video recordings.
If you want to step up the speed and quality without updating your computer, look into the Elgato 10020780 EyeTV 250 Plus Digital/Analog TV Receiver and Video Converter. For an extra $50 you get dedicated processing, thus relieving the load on the computer's processor...but you still need Intel to get the HDTV...I tried one of the 2 HDTV channels the tuner recognized...video quality was much better but halting on my Mac...
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Summary of EyeTV Hybrid - Mac TV tuner stick that receives free over-the-air (OTA) HDTV, Clear QAM & analog TV (10020630)
EyeTV 250 Plus is a TV tuner and a powerful video converter in one device. Watch and pause live TV on your Mac. Record, subscribe to TV series, and create Smart Playlists. Edit out unwanted content and send your favorites to iTunes to sync automatically. Enjoy sharing EyeTV recordings over a local network with other Macs and accessing them on an iPod or iPhone via Wi-Fi. Store your collection on your Mac or external disc, or burn to DVD-Video using Roxio Toast Basic (included).EyeTV 250 Plus receives free over-the-air (OTA) HDTV, Clear QAM, and traditional analog TV, and comes with a composite video and S-Video break-out cable to connect a set-top box. EyeTV 250 Plus captures high quality video from analog sources such as a VCR or camcorder, comes with a VHS Assistant and iPod Assistant to guide you through the setup. EyeTV 250 Plus' built-in hardware encoder rapidly converts analog video to high quality digital video without using your Mac's processor.Categories
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