Show floor video: EyeTV 3.0

As Elgato announced earlier today and Erica hinted last week, there's a new version of EyeTV out and about, featuring better WiFi access, 'season pass' recording, library sharing and more (3.0 is a paid upgrade, so the feature list had better be big). We spent a few minutes looking at a demo and grabbed a video for you. Note that this is our 'quick and dirty' video quality -- when you see the production value of our interviews, hold onto your hats!

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Stephen

I use an Elgato 250 Plus with 2.5 on a Mini. It is a great appliance. Looking forward to the 3.0 upgrade.

January 17 2008 at 1:51 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

SoloMalee

Can anyone enlightenme on how the TV streaming to iPod works.

I only want to do two (in theory) simple things:

1. Record TV to watch via Apple TV or iPod
2. Stream *live* TV to other rooms (Apple TV would make a nice extender, but I could live with a Mini if I have to.

I'm sure Elgato mention streaming live TV to Ipod Touch and iPhone, so why not Apple TV (or am I missing something?)

January 16 2008 at 5:42 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Ryan

The streaming is not live tv. When you set up the Wifi access it converts the videos to a format compatible with the iPhone/iTouch and sets your computer so that your devices can access it wirelessly.

For your two wants
1. Thats easily done with an EyeTV product. You can have it automatically convert the files for your iPod after its done recording
2. No way to do this with AppleTV, and if you get a mini you are just as well off putting the EyeTV on the mini.

January 16 2008 at 9:31 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Bryan

Does anyone know whether this finally supports Canadian TV channels? If not it's not worth upgrading for me.

January 16 2008 at 12:37 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Go to:

http://www.frasil.com/eyetvcanada/

I haven't been able to try it because I only have USB1 on my current mac and am waiting to upgrade to a mini.

I bought it at Macworld - they had some good discounts $50 off of EyeTV Hybrid and $30 off of the turbo.

January 20 2008 at 8:34 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Bryan

Thanks, JW. I did some searching after posting this and ended up getting a Schedules Direct subscription that I'm using with Mac Program Guide. $20 is cheaper than upgrading to a crippled version of EyeTV 3. Thanks for the heads up :)

January 20 2008 at 1:46 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Rick Stratton

I just bought the 3.0 version from the elgato website, received my download link and key e-mail, and then downloaded and installed it. It works pretty good. The big thing I was waiting for was the 'season pass' feature. While not quite as intuitive as good ol' Tivo, it works pretty well, and in the long run, might be even more powerful, via the powerful 'Smart Guides' feature. I am in America (Denver) and am using EyeTv 3.0 with my EyeTV Hybrid along with a ZephIR IR blaster to control my DirecTV HD Satellite receiver and it all works pretty well. One thing I noticed it didn't do. When I created two 'Smart Guide' season passes, there is a conflict between the two shows next week. Unlike Tivo, that detects the conflict and asks you what you want to do to resolve it, EyeTV 3.0 simply records the show that was first added. I am sure this is something that Elgato can and will fix in a small 3.0.x update. I think I am finally very close to getting rid of my Tivo, which has been powered down for several months now.

January 15 2008 at 11:40 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Frank Tinsley

I just want to know if these things work in america yet! (i.e. with comcast, verizon, dish, or directv)

January 15 2008 at 8:55 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

neil

i've been eyeing (ha!) an Elgato hardware system for sometime - this convinces me!

if I goto apple store tomorrow and buy - is the 3.0 upgrade free?

January 15 2008 at 8:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jason

Please Apple, please, just buy them and integrate this with Apple TV Take 3. That would finally make Apple TV worth buying.

January 15 2008 at 7:36 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Paul Dunlop

Weird, checkout worked fine for me. Got it installed and looks great. Only thing that's a shame is that, with the sharing feature, I can't install a second version on another machine (that doesn't have a TV tuner or anything) and use it to stream my recordings across my network. Looks like I need two licenses, which is a shame.

January 15 2008 at 7:10 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Brian

Shame their checkout is broken so I cannot order this, was looking forward to seeing the new interface and scheduling it to record every episode of the Simpsons it could find...

January 15 2008 at 6:52 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply