Watch and record TV on your Mac laptop
Cory Bergman January 11th, 2007
This is a cool little device to come out of MacWorld. It’s called EyeTV, and it’s a little device that looks like a flash drive that plugs straight into a USB port on your Mac. Plug the other end into your set-top box or TV antenna, and you can watch either analog or digital TV on your Mac. You can use your Apple remote to change channels. Like a show? Use EyeTV’s software to record it, edit it and then export it straight to your iPod.
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1. Chris Krewson | January 11th, 2007 at 1:20 pm
There’s a bigger version of this for Mac desktops — we’ve had it internally at our newspaper for about 2 years now to record and grab screenshots. It’s pretty cool.
2. fishpatrol | January 11th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
Yeah, ElGato has several devices out in the US for TV recording (several for overseas too), some with hardware encoding and some not. You need a fast computer to play back high-def streams, but it only takes a low-end G4 to record. I’ve been grabbing HD content from an antenna for a couple years now and can in no way afford the hard drive space to keep it all. Great for time-shifting and burning to DVD (if you have the processor time to reencode), though.
3. Tony Snow | January 11th, 2007 at 3:17 pm
Is this the EyeTV hybrid?
Can I ask a suggestion to this blog? Everytime you read the comments page and go back to the main, you have to scroll down to where the post it. Also, the other option to look at comments doesn’t work all the time. Using the Firefox browser.
4. thomas | January 11th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
I see the word Mac in the title, it must be revolutionary, because a USB tv tuner device has never ever been done before!
5. thedetroitchannel | January 11th, 2007 at 5:15 pm
herein lies the answer to cisco v. apple with regards to the trademark infringement of iphone…
jobs said “eyephone”. can he help it no one asked him the correct spelling???
case dismissed.
6. Safran | January 11th, 2007 at 6:39 pm
I use the myTV PVR addon for my Mac, and it works great. It’s considerably bigger - it’s the size of an external hard dive. And you better have an external hard drive handy, too - the sucker can record video at up to 12 Mb/second.
Cool though - it saves in MPEG2 and you can edit.
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