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Review: Elgato's EyeTV Mobile for Dyle

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Dec 17th, 2012)

Elgato has been making video hardware for a number of years, and typically I've found the offerings to be as good as any given consumer would need. As hardware has gotten better, Elgato's offerings have been able to pump out HD signals to your Mac or iOS device. Here I'll review an odd duck, a ...

Elgato releases EyeTV Mobile for iPad, iPhone

by Kelly Hodgkins (Aug 31st, 2012)

Elgato used Germany's IFA 2012 tradeshow as a springboard to announce a new version of its EyeTV Mobile product for the iPhone and iPad. The dongle connects to the dock connector and lets a user receive DVB-T broadcasts on their iOS device. Due to improved chip technology, the latest version of ...

TUAW and MacTech interview: Elgato

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jul 26th, 2012)

Elgato is currently celebrating the tenth anniversary of its EyeTV product. EyeTV is now a line of hardware and a set of apps for Mac and iOS which allow you to watch and record TV. Elgato makes other products as well, like capture devices and storage. In this video, Neil Ticktin ...

Elgato marks EyeTV 10th birthday with sale

by Mel Martin (Jul 24th, 2012)

Mac video and storage specialists Elgato are having a tenth anniversary sale on all products, so if you've been thinking about taking the plunge, you have until July 29th to do it at an attractive price. The company is offering 10% off on all video products, including the EyeTv HD video ...

Hauppauge's HD PVR Gaming Edition works, but with some issues

by Mike Schramm (Jun 28th, 2012)

Game capture is a bigger and bigger business lately -- with YouTube views earning money for partner channels, indie devs needing to capture video footage of their games, and lots of players just wanting to record their own gameplay for various purposes, there's a big call these days for full, ...

Elgato Game Capture HD delivers easy HDMI recording to OS X

by Erica Sadun (Jun 4th, 2012)

Talk about off-label use: I own neither an Xbox 360 or a PlayStation 3. These are the normal devices associated with Elgato's Game Capture HD box. Retailing for US$200, the box lets you hook up an HDMI video source to record your interactions with your favorite gaming system. For me, I wanted ...

Elgato announces Game Capture HD, shipping next week

by Steven Sande (May 22nd, 2012)

When you're into gaming, there are some times that you wish that you could go back in time and replay a particularly astounding point in gameplay where you wiped out a deadly foe or racked up a huge score in a short amount of time. Elgato wants you to relive those moments, and with the new Game ...

Elgato's Thunderbolt SSD delivers fast portable storage at premium prices

by Michael Rose (Mar 10th, 2012)

Update: Added BareFeats performance testing information. If there's one word I'd pick to describe Elgato's newest Mac peripheral, the Thunderbolt SSD external drive, it would have to be "minimalist." With this product, the company has delivered storage so simple that it's almost featureless. The ...

Elgato, LaCie, and OCZ announce Thunderbolt storage options at CES 2012

by Michael Rose (Jan 9th, 2012)

As Richard said sharply a few weeks ago, there really hasn't been a rush to plenty when it comes to Thunderbolt storage options from third-party vendors. That's apparently about to change for the better, as a slew of top-tier manufacturers are announcing products at this week's CES ...

Dear Aunt TUAW: Help me dual tune

by Erica Sadun (Oct 10th, 2011)

Dear Aunt TUAW, What the heck is going on with eyeTV why after 3-4 years of promises do they still not support dual tuners, or channel sorting? i've tried to reach out to elgato in various different digital ways, but to no avail, does TUAW have any contacts they could touch on to figure this ...

Elgato EyeTV Mobile streams live TV to iPads

by Chris Rawson (Aug 30th, 2011)

Elgato, makers of the EyeTV line of accessories, has announced EyeTV Mobile for the iPad 2. Consisting of a dock connector dongle with a built-in TV antenna, the accessory will allow iPad 2 owners to watch live TV anywhere via a forthcoming EyeTV Mobile app on the App Store. The accessory and ...

Create quality iPad 2 product demos with Apple TV and EyeTV

by Erica Sadun (Jun 11th, 2011)

After much effort, we've found a solid TUAW solution for screencasting the iPad 2 to desktop computers. Steve Sande and I have been documenting our attempts at this challenge for several months now. Back in March, Steve got basic 480p mirroring working. I then improved that to 720p/720i, ...

Elgato HDHomeRun lets you record live digital TV over network

by Steven Sande (May 16th, 2011)

Elgato has just announced a new product that will let you watch and record digital TV in full high-definition on any computer on your home network. HDHomeRun is a dual tuner that connects to both your cable TV or digital TV antenna and your network router, and then streams live TV over Wi-Fi or ...

How to: Capturing iPad video with audio narration

by Erica Sadun (Apr 26th, 2011)

Recently, Mike Rose asked me to check out an ongoing discussion over at the Telestream forums to see if I could assist one of the posters. Mike knew that Steve Sande and I were working on testing out a variety of iPad-to-computer screen capture solutions. He thought I might be able to help out ...

EyeTV for iOS 1.2.3 released, introduces AirPlay support

by Erica Sadun (Apr 4th, 2011)

Today, Elgato released version 1.2.3 of its iOS EyeTV software. Now available for download from iTunes, the US$4.99 EyeTV app finally adds the highly-requested AirPlay support so many customers have been looking for. EyeTV's iOS app works with your home computer, allowing you to view programs ...