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Dear Aunt TUAW: Will Comcast kill my EyeTV?

by Erica Sadun (May 24th, 2010)

Dear Aunt TUAW, Comcast has been telling me that I need to start buying or renting new equipment in order to keep watching my normal expanded basic channels like SyFy, USA, and TNT. I mostly watch TV on my Mac using an EyeTV tuner from Elgato. How is the Comcast change going to affect my ...

Hands-on with Elgato EyeTV Hybrid and EyeTV app for iPhone

by Steven Sande (May 13th, 2010)

Elgato Systems has been in the business of turning Macs into TVs for quite a while now. The company's most powerful USB digital TV tuner, the EyeTV Hybrid (US$149.95), is an amazing little dongle that comes equipped with EyeTV 3 tuner / recorder software for Mac. The EyeTV Hybrid has gone through a ...

EyeTV Hybrid shrinks down, gains Win7 compatibility

by Michael Rose (Mar 10th, 2010)

Same price, same features (mostly) but a sleek and slender new look: yesterday Elgato introduced the latest revamp of its EyeTV Hybrid USB tuner for high-definition digital television. The US$150 widget gives you the option of watching over-the-air digital television in full HD glory, and can also ...

Macworld 2010: Elgato products roundup

by Michael Rose (Feb 12th, 2010)

Although it isn't exhibiting this year, flagship Mac television hardware gadget maker Elgato still had a presence on the show floor in the person of marketing VP Adam Steinberg, who visited our booth yesterday. Adam ran down some of the current Elgato product offerings, including the Turbo.264 HD ...

EyeTV now offers HTTP Live Video streaming over 3G via Safari

by Erica Sadun (Dec 16th, 2009)

Tired of restrictions about what you can and cannot stream over 3G connections? Elgato, the makers of EyeTV, have introduced a novel solution for their many customers to access live and recorded TV shows using an iPhone and a 3G connection. Their new Live3G web site provides a web app solution for ...

EyeTV app removed from the App Store over streaming workaround

by Joachim Bean (Oct 17th, 2009)

Update: As of this writing, Total Apps reports that it's back in the UK App Store. We still don't see it in the US store. That sure didn't last long. Just shortly after the discovery of a 3G "backdoor" for the EyeTV app, it has been pulled from the App Store. The workaround let users of the app ...

EyeTV app for iPhone released

by Chris Rawson (Sep 30th, 2009)

Elgato, maker of EyeTV, has released EyeTV for iPhone [iTunes Link], an app that allows access to both live and recorded video content from any Mac running EyeTV 3.2 or later. The $4.99 app lets you view live and recorded TV on your iPhone or iPod touch over your local network, and it also allows ...

Hands on: Connecting my mini to a TV

by Erica Sadun (Sep 1st, 2009)

We bought our Olevia 47" on Black Friday, 2007. It wasn't a particularly well rated TV. But it was a Black Friday deal that we could afford and it gave us far more screen space than we'd thought we'd be able to purchase. It has served us well through the years, hosting any number of gadgets with ...

TUAW Guide: Setting up the Ultimate Mac mini Home Theater

by Christina Warren (Aug 21st, 2009)

The Mac mini has always been the perfect form factor for a media center appliance (often called a Home Theater PC/HTPC). It's extremely small, almost completely silent and it can easily blend into an existing electronics shelf - or be hidden away completely. The lack of a refresh (and rumors that ...

EyeTV Hybrid hardware gets a performance boost

by Michael Rose (Jan 5th, 2009)

Elgato's EyeTV Hybrid has long been the standout among the Mac options for HD television tuners, in large part because it comes with the excellent EyeTV software for program guide info, scheduling and recording. This week, the product gets an overhaul with refreshed hardware (including an FM radio ...

Elgato says no to voluntary DRM broadcast flags

by Erica Sadun (Jul 2nd, 2008)

Yesterday, I was reading through our sister site TV Squad and saw this post about Broadcast Flags that prevent PCs from recording shows. Broadcast flags, which are signals sent in a digital TV data stream, indicate whether shows should or should not be recorded by third party equipment such as PVRs. ...

Show floor video: El Gato HD hardware and EyeTV 3

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jan 24th, 2008)

While we wait for Apple to cram a TV tuner or cable card into the Apple TV (don't hold your breath-- seriously), El Gato continues to pump out some nice hardware/software tools for watching the tube on your Mac. One thing that caught my eye: you can start distributing recorded live video around your ...

ATI TV Wonder 650 Combo for Mac

by Mat Lu (Nov 14th, 2007)

Until recently turning your Mac into a PVR has generally meant using Elgato's EyeTV (our coverage) with hardware from Elgato or a related vendor. Now, however, AMD is getting in the Mac PVR game with the ATI TV Wonder 650 Combo USB for Mac (say that three times fast!). The Wonder 650 has dual tuner ...

Elgato updates EyeTV for Leopard

by Nik Fletcher (Oct 31st, 2007)

TUAW readers are no-doubt aware of EyeTV, the app from Elgato Systems that enables you to record TV via your Mac (with a compatible tuner). Last month's EyeTV 2.5 upgrade was a neat boost that allowed folks to use their recorded content on the newest handheld devices, but today's 2.5.1 update now ...

EyeTV 2.5 offers free slingbox-style video streaming

by Erica Sadun (Oct 3rd, 2007)

As we posted last week, Elgato's new EyeTV 2.5 upgrade (free to existing customers) offers WiFi video streaming. Today I finally had the opportunity to sit down and put the update to the test: to see how it worked and to see where the new technology could take me. I found that this update ...