![]() Online scheduling is pretty cool too, although I don't know how well it would work in Canada (US scheduling works with ).As for the hardware, just make sure you get the right widget for the type of connection you want. The full-screen interface works just as well as TiVo, and I say that as a long-time TiVo bigot. Overall, I rate Elgato's hardware and software combo very highly, and have be recommending it to my friends and co-workers. I just save out the mpeg2 file and convert it to h.264 using ffmpeg. I'm pretty picky, and it's so slight it doesn't annoy me.EyeTV is nice because it offers simple editing tools and very easy ways to save or export recordings, though I think its encoders leave something to be desired '” though perhaps I'm not configuring them right. Only time I notice anything is when the EyeTV starts recording in the background while I'm listening to iTunes then sometimes the music just barely skips. ![]() And my old G4 notebook has no trouble handling the HD streams either. Because EyeTV just records the raw mpeg2 stream received by the DTT stick, quality is very good. And when the delivery man turned up, and my friend rang, I just paused the live telly show and went back when I was ready. I've never been one to watch much telly, but all of a sudden, I'm recording the nightly Simpsons re-runs, so no matter when I get home, I can veg out with Homer for half an hour, and skip through commercials. ![]() Elgato says this problem will be fixed in the next update to the EyeTV software.I just bought the DTT stick, a tiny USB digital free-to-air tuner, and combined with EyeTV, it's OMFG fantastic. For example, I exported the same 1080i episode of The Daily Show to iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV formats, and all three had the same 640-by-360-pixel dimensions. However, I encountered a major bug in the software that caused problems using the Export option in EyeTV-recordings didn’t export with the proper frame sizes for their respective presets. Doing so takes up more room on your hard drive, but makes it much faster to export the video to iTunes for syncing to your iPhone or iPod touch. With the EyeTV HD, you can choose to encode video in Best, Better, or Good quality, which captures video at the same resolution and frame rate as the source output (although you can’t tell what the bit rate or hard drive space requirements are for each unless you’re actually capturing video), or encode for iPad (scaled to work on Apple’s portable device).Īt the same time, however, you can also create a 480-pixel-wide iPhone version-the hardware can encode two streams simultaneously. The EyeTV software works pretty much the same as it does with theĮyeTV Hybrid (2010) ( ), with a few notable differences. The whole process took less than 10 minutes. The EyeTV Setup Assistant did a fine job walking me through the process of hooking up the hardware and configuring it to work with my receiver, picking my TV provider and channel lineup, and testing the IR blaster to make sure everything was working right. The Setup Assistant helps you make sure everything is working fine. That might mean using a laptop or having a very long USB cable running across the floor. Because you connect the EyeTV HD to a set-top box, you’ll obviously need a Mac within USB-cable range of one TV in your abode. I tested the EyeTV HD with an H20 HD receiver from DirecTV, connected to a newĬore i5 2.53GHz 17-inch MacBook Pro ( ).
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