Comments on: Watch and record TV on your Mac laptop

By: Safran

Safran — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 01:39:24 +0000

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.

By: thedetroitchannel

thedetroitchannel — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 00:15:24 +0000

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.

By: thomas

thomas — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 00:08:29 +0000

I see the word Mac in the title, it must be revolutionary, because a USB tv tuner device has never ever been done before!

By: Tony Snow

Tony Snow — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 22:17:16 +0000

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.

By: fishpatrol

fishpatrol — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 20:57:05 +0000

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.

By: Chris Krewson

Chris Krewson — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 20:20:21 +0000

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.