There's also something neat about watching the telly on a laptop screen, and if a movie comes on I can just hit the "record" button, just like the old days of VHS. As a straight up TV replacemant, though, it is outstanding -good quality and easy to use. The EyeTV has a ridiculous amount of functionality which I haven't even touched yet. Add that to my lack of home Internet and you'll see why I have got so much reading done recently. In mine, however, even the rooftop antenna can only manage FM radio. That said, the small supplied antenna pulls in some very good pictures in the Lady's apartment. This is less of a problem with digital broadcasts – it's either on or off – but analog can break up.
Powerful and versatile, the EyeTV Hybrid is the right choice if you get your TV signal from basic (unscrambled) cable. The smallest hybrid TV tuner ever released from Elgato, the EyeTV Hybrid packs a lot of features into one very small USB stick. Picture quality varies, of course, depending on reception. Elgato EyeTV Hybrid TV Tuner Stick for HDTV & Analog TV. These are the advantages of watching TV on a computer. You can surf your recordings in cover flow view, beam recordings over the network (or internet) to an iPod or iPhone, organize the recordings into smart folders, have EyeTV automatically add new video to iTunes (for syncing to iPods) and even edit out commercials.
EYETV HYBRI SOFTWARE
So, how is it? Aside from the annoying TV guide setup, the software is great, and very Mac-like. The dongle has its own IR port, which means that the EyeTV actually adds remote functionality to older Macs. Fortunately, the dongle will also work with the Apple remote, which is both more elegant and easier to carry in a bag. It allows you to control pretty much all aspects of the EyeTV: navigting the channel guide, pausing live TV, recording, you name it. The EyeTV Hybrid at my desk, which receives over-the-air signals via an antenna, does provide that information.The remote is, like almost all remotes, ugly. One thing I found annoying, though, was the fact that the Program Guide for my DirecTV setup didn’t show whether programs were being broadcast in HD. Even though the EyeTV HD process takes analog video output and re-encodes it, I found the quality of recordings to be very good. Otherwise, you can find, watch, schedule, record, and edit programs just as you would with any other EyeTV-powered product.
EYETV HYBRI UPDATE
Elgato says this problem will be fixed in the next update to the EyeTV software.
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 HYBRI 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 the EyeTV 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 HYBRI PRO
I tested the EyeTV HD with an H20 HD receiver from DirecTV, connected to a new Core i5 2.53GHz 17-inch MacBook Pro ( ). Audio is limited to stereo via RCA-style analog connections. Elgato also includes a breakout cable for composite and S-Video connections. Component video (and therefore the EyeTV HD) supports up to 1080i resolution. Because HDMI connections employ copy protection, the EyeTV HD uses analog component video connections with your set-top box to take advantage of the so-called “analog loophole”-signals sent over the analog output aren’t encrypted.
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