Elgato has been on the Mac video market for some time, development and commercialization of popular products such as video compression device Turbo.264 HD USB and various varieties of EyeTV tuner and digital video recorder for Mac.
Eariler this year TUAW examined the EyeTV Hybrid, a dongle USB of US$ 149.95 which serves as a tuner and recorder for over-the-air digital television. Since that time, Elgato released HD EyeTV ($ 199.95 and available at least to points of sale online), which the company touts as "the ultimate TV cable and satellite HD DVRS.
The two devices work with Elgato EyeTV for Mac software includes a smart guides for a season of any program for your Mac or an external disk automatically, saving guide program, easy export video to iTunes for syncing iDevices and even streaming application to iOS EyeTV. The big difference? EyeTV HD works with cable or satellite HD boxes that many people use for pump that digital signal quality to their HDTV. Click the read more link below for a full review of this video material unique.
Setup
Looking at the back of the EyeTV HD packaging Setup seems very simple - you just need to run audio and video cables between the satellite or cable and HD EyeTV, execute your Mac's USB cable and then connect a cable infrared channel changer for HD EyeTV "take control" of your cable box. Elgato is smart enough to include all necessary cables in the box, you do not have to run to the local Radio Shack to buy to put in place the HD EyeTV. There is also a remote control and a CD on which you can find a copy of the EyeTV software (I he downloaded from Elgato site to obtain the latest version).
The Setup program is incredibly easy that even I could do! After cables to be connected according to the quick start guide, I launched the EyeTV application on my MacBook air. There I quickly guided by a connection to HD EyeTV, gathering the required channel guide (and I think that I had a bad...), and then selecting the appropriate box cable. The latter was carried out by clicking a button on the Mac screen to see if it is found the cable box or disable.
Operation
One thing to remember is that EyeTV HD is not a replacement for your gamepad cable decoder or satellite. You will use for video display on your Mac as well as for the video capture to your Mac or an external hard disk is attached. That being said, the EyeTV HD is a high-performance work.
Video reviewed big screen MacBook Air, so I can only imagine how awesome it would be an iMac display 27 "or something." Inflow can be set to fill your screen or scaled to provide a window watching TV on your Mac, and the sound quality is good. EyeTV captures and plays its Dolby Digital. Using optical digital audio output on the latest Mac, it may transmit its Dolby Digital 5.1 home cinema for incredible systems
As you can see in the video below, the user interface is as a channel that you would get in a standard cable box guide. The guide provides a list of hour performances on a specific channel, and you can also search for shows by name. Once the complete guide has been fulfilled on the Mac, scroll through the list was lightning fast. You get free access Guide Channel (provided by TV Guide) for one year; After that, the guide costs $ 19.95 per year.
Choose a particular show guide, you can choose to save the issuance, registration on a calendar, or save all episodes of a program. Registration is not all HD EyeTV can do, of course. Watch a show, you can perform all functions DVR typical suspension and rewind the live video. If you use a widescreen Mac as your television, you can even use the included remote control to perform all these actions and navigate through the user interface for HD EyeTV. The software can even be set to wake up or turn on your Mac at a specific time to record a show.
It is fairly easy editing of recorded broadcasts. Integrated editor can be used to remove commercials from records or to merge the episodes broadcast.
You want to watch your shows recorded on something other than a Mac? Your video can be automatically saved on iPad iTunes and iPhone format at the same time. There is a way you can video stream live or recorded to an iPhone or iPad application of EyeTV $4.99.
If there are several Mac in your household, then Mac can install the OS X EyeTV application and share records on a Wi - Fi or Ethernet network. That parental controls are enabled in EyeTV software, you can have a large library of performances with mature themes and make sure that your children can watch.
Negative
One thing I found odd about the software was that when I tried to move a channel, he could show me the correct channel name or description, but often I found myself watching the channel lower or higher than that I really wanted to. This is due to a defect in operation of the installation on my part - either in infrared blaster or may choose the incorrect channel - guide or is a software error, it is quite boring. I have no opportunity of trying to make the installation once more, but I am confident that this would solve the problem.
Conclusion
Elgato EyeTV HD is great for those who have cable or satellite HD TV services and who would like to watch and record shows on their Mac. The EyeTV software adds functionality whenever examines Elgato is new trends of visualization rendering the EyeTV HD device and software works well with other Mac, iPhone and iPads.
A short video follows this post — it has been registered for the episode 15 December 2010 TUAW TV live, and it shows the EyeTV HD in action. TUAW later give the Elgato EyeTV HD among many gifts for Macworld Expo 2011 in San Francisco from 27 to 29 January. If you go to this year's event, don't forget to visit us in booth 1012 a chance to win this and other valuable prizes.
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