The EyeTV Hybrid at my desk, which receives over-the-air signals via an antenna, does provide that information.Provides fast reliable control of your Eye-TV device on Mac OS-X. One thing I found annoying, though, was the fact that the Program Guide for my DirecTV setup didn’t show whether programs were being broadcast in HD. Even though the EyeTV HD process takes analog video output and re-encodes it, I found the quality of recordings to be very good. Otherwise, you can find, watch, schedule, record, and edit programs just as you would with any other EyeTV-powered product. Elgato says this problem will be fixed in the next update to the EyeTV software. 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 the EyeTV 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 new Core i5 2.53GHz 17-inch MacBook Pro ( ). Audio is limited to stereo via RCA-style analog connections. Elgato also includes a breakout cable for composite and S-Video connections. Component video (and therefore the EyeTV HD) supports up to 1080i resolution. Because HDMI connections employ copy protection, the EyeTV HD uses analog component video connections with your set-top box to take advantage of the so-called “analog loophole”-signals sent over the analog output aren’t encrypted.
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