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  • Watch, pause, and rewind live TV on your Mac
  • Search the Program Guide using multiple criteria
  • Record one show or an entire TV series
  • Edit out unwanted content and create clips from your recordings
  • Export recordings to iTunes automatically for playback on an iPhone or iPad
  • Share recordings with other Macs on your local network
  • Stream live or recorded TV to an iPhone or iPad with the optional EyeTV app (available on the App Store for $4.99/ 4,99€/ £3.99 )

Turn your Mac into the coolest television in the house. Pause the TV show while you get a snack. Rewind and watch that great play again. Fast forward past the advertisements. Float the EyeTV window on top of other applications to keep an eye on your show while you work or surf the Web, and watch two TV windows Picture-in-Picture.

Sit at your desk and navigate the resizeable window with a mouse, or go full screen and stretch out on the couch with an EyeTV or Apple Remote. EyeTV’s gorgeous On Screen menu makes it easy to channel surf and move through the Program Guide and menus in the comfort of your living room.

Eyetv 3.6.9 (7521) eyetv plus. If you need support regarding your EyeTV product please do not hesitate to contact us following this link. Contact Support. EyeTV enables you to export your recordings for post-processing in other Mac applications and professional video editing software, such as iMovie® HD, iDVD®, or DVD Studio Pro®. It offers a large variety of intelligent presets which selects the optimum export format for you, or you can chose the settings yourself. Eyetv 3 software offers special features for Mac users, including Smart Series Guides, Smart Playlists, automatic exports to iTunes, and support for the EyeTV for iPhone app. With eyetv Version 3.6.8/3.6.9 in combination with the eyetv hybrid you can now receive digital DVB-T television using an aerial.

EyeTV puts detailed and up-to-date TV listings at your fingertips. EyeTV’s integrated Program Guide harvests the TV listings data contained in over-the-air digital broadcasts as well as online sources.

It’s a breeze to search the Program Guide for shows you want to watch using multiple criteria and full text search terms. That means you can search for shows featuring your favourite actors, directors, topics, and even genre, and save each search as a Smart Guide.

Interested in a particular TV series? In one easy step you can create a special kind of Smart Guide, called a “Smart Series Guide”, to search out all the upcoming episodes. It’s easy to filter out the repeats to find the brand new episodes that you haven’t seen yet.

Smart Guides and Smart Series Guides continually update to add shows to your saved searches as soon as they appear in the Program Guide. Note: Smart Guide features require a Gracenote or IceTV subscription.

EyeTV provides detailed information about each television channel. Drag and drop the ones you watch most frequently into a “favourites” list, or go a step further and organise your sports, news, movie channels and more into their own lists. Each list of channels comes complete with matching Program Guide information.

If you travel frequently, you can save your channel list configuration for each location and easily switch between them with a click. No more re-auto tuning, renaming, or sorting channels after you’ve used your tuner in a different place.

Is the show you started watching 10 minutes ago worth saving? No problem. EyeTV can record back to the beginning of the program from the live TV buffer and won’t mind a bit if you pause, rewind, and fast-forward while you watch the rest of the show.

If you prefer to plan ahead, it’s easy to create a Schedule to record upcoming shows. EyeTV will wake up or turn on your Mac automatically.

It takes just one click of a button to record your saved searches, or Smart Guides. Simply check the appropriate box in your Smart Guide.

When you click the Record All button, EyeTV creates a Smart Series Guide which will automatically record the entire season of that TV series. And EyeTV is smart; if you’ve already scheduled another recording at the same time an new episode is broadcast, EyeTV will automatically record it the next time that same episode comes on as a repeat. EyeTV will also set up a Smart Playlist for that TV series, and to save space on your hard disc you can tell your Smart Series Guide how many episodes to retain.

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Organise your growing library of EyeTV recordings any way you like. File them by series and season, by artist, by genre – there is no limit to the number of Playlists you can create to store and find your recordings.

And to make things easy, you can tell EyeTV to do your filing for you. Simply create Smart Playlists to update in real time based on the criteria you choose. Or, set your recording schedule to go to a specific playlist automatically as soon as it finishes recording.

A Smart Playlist is created automatically whenever you set up a Smart Series Guide to record the entire season of a TV series.

Browse the EyeTV Library in List view or Cover Flow, or use Spotlight to search your recordings by name and description. If you have prepared recordings for iPhone access, then EyeTV even supports the Finder’s QuickLook feature.

Use EyeTV’s built-in Editor to remove unwanted content from your recording, or to crop the beginning and end of the show. The Editor also enables you to create one or more short clips from a longer recording and save the clips individually as new EyeTV recordings. If you’re in a hurry, simply export video clips straight to your iPhone or iPad without saving them first.

EyeTV enables you to export your recordings for post-processing in other Mac applications and professional video editing software, such as iMovie® HD, iDVD®, or DVD Studio Pro®. It offers a large variety of intelligent presets which selects the optimum export format for you, or you can chose the settings yourself. EyeTV also includes support for Sony PSP and other current media types & playback devices.

Enjoy last night’s late show on your iPhone or iPad during your morning commute. Watch some movies on your iPad during that long plane ride. Enjoy your own recordings on your widescreen television with an Apple TV. EyeTV can send your recordings to iTunes automatically for optimized playback on the Apple device of your choice.

EyeTV records and plays Dolby® Digital sound, including 5.1 multichannel audio, where available. EyeTV also supports the digital optical audio output built into newer Macs and passes through Dolby® Digital 5.1 sound to home theater systems.

EyeTV is the only TV software that supports “Progressive Scan” for excellent picture quality, and it is capable of displaying full resolution HDTV on Macs with Intel Core Duo processors or dual G5 processors. EyeTV also supports closed captions as well as Picture-in-Picture (PiP).

To help parents protect their children from objectionable content, EyeTV supports Parental Controls. EyeTV supports the European DVB rating system as well as the rating systems used in the USA (TV and MPAA) and Canada (English and French).

With the EyeTV app for the iPhone, you can watch live TV and EyeTV recordings wherever you have a WIFI or 3G connection, whether you’re around the corner at the coffee shop or travelling around the world.

The EyeTV software running on your Mac converts live TV to the correct format for streaming to the iPhone, ensuring optimal picture quality. Both EyeTV software and the EyeTV app use the HTTP streaming standard developed by Apple. This takes advantage of the iPhone’s hardware acceleration to deliver the highest possible playback quality and longer battery life.

* Feature requires a Mac and is not available on a PC. EyeTV app availability in the App Store is subject to Apple approval and cannot be guaranteed.

If you’ve got more than one Mac in the house and EyeTV 3 is installed on all of them, then you can share EyeTV recordings over your local network. Shared libraries show up in the sidebar, and you can browse and play them in standard or HD resolution.

EyeTV now offers an integrated AppleScript menu. Combined with more robust script support, EyeTV gives advanced users even more control and flexibility to create custom applications.

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System Requirements

  • OS X 10.9 or later.
  • a compatible TV Tuner

Compatible Peripherals

  • EyeTV Diversity
  • EyeTV Go
  • EyeTV Hybrid
  • EyeTV Micro (Europe)
  • EyeTV Netstream 4C
  • EyeTV Netstream Sat
  • EyeTV Netstream 4Sat
  • EyeTV Sat
  • EyeTV DTT (Stick)
  • EyeTV DTT (Cinergy T2)
  • EyeTV DTT Deluxe
  • EyeTV EZ
  • EyeTV HD
  • EyeTV Netstream DTT
  • EyeTV One
  • EyeTV USB
  • EyeTV Wonder USB 2.0
  • EyeTV 200
  • EyeTV 250
  • EyeTV 250 Plus
  • EyeTV 300/310
  • EyeTV 400/410
  • EyeTV 500
  • EyeTV 610
  • EyeTV Sat Free
  • HD HomeRun (North America)
  • Tivizen
  • Sat>IP Server

'The EyeTV's best feature, however, isn't its hardware but its software. Its program guide offers the same kind of point-and-click simplicity that TiVo owners have grown accustomed to, but in an iTunes-esque interface that allows find-as-you-type searching for programs. Oh, and you can use a real keyboard to type your searches too.'

...despite the lack of competition in this market, EyeTV is innovating at a phenomenal pace. Very few other companies produce similar software, but Elgato are not resting on their laurels. Not only is EyeTV a great piece of software at the moment, it seems to be improving regularly with new features and bug fixes.

If you’re looking for a TV solution on your Mac I can’t recommend EyeTV highly enough.

'If you have a compatible TV tuner, Elgato's EyeTV 3 software is simply the best stuff around for using your Mac mini as a PVR. We've written a lot about EyeTV over the years and it remains the best PVR this side of TiVo.'

'...the TV tuner is only as good as the software that controls it...Elgato's EyeTV 3 software is just about perfect.'

'What’s great about EyeTV is the incredible scope and generally smart, intuitive functionality of the software: what you get here is now officially leagues beyond what TiVo and its many lesser competitors offer in today’s digital video recorders.'

'EyeTV 3's standout feature is surely smart guides. If you watch a lot of TV or often hear about programmes retrospectively, you'll wonder how you lived without it.'

'Elgato Systems' EyeTV is one of those products I simply can’t live without. (Well, okay, I could, but I wouldn’t like it). Version trois continues the product’s run of robust updates.'

At a Glance

Expert’s Rating

Pros

  • Lets you watch, record, edit, and export TV shows
  • Works with free and HD programs
  • Software includes editing functionality

Cons

  • Antenna not included
  • IR remote requires line-of-sight
  • Can’t set number of episodes to record with Smart Series
  • Complicated to use with cable or satellite boxes

Our Verdict

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For many years, Elgato has offered Mac users the hardware and software to turn their computers into TV-tuning, DVD-functioning wonderlands. Or, to put it another way, letting people watch, record, edit, and export TV shows on their Macs.

The latest version of Elgato’s EyeTV Hybrid TV tuner lets you access over-the-air SD and HD channels (ATSC) and unencrypted analog (NTSC) and digital (Clear QAM) cable channels, as well as signals from cable and satellite boxes (more on that shortly). Plug the Hybrid into a USB 2.0 port (either directly or using the included USB extension cable), attach the coaxial adapter, connect either an antenna (not included) or cable, and you’re ready to go. There’s an included break-out cable offering analog-only inputs for game consoles, DVD players, VCRs, and the like. Unlike the previous version, the Hybrid no longer includes an FM tuner. I tested it with a small antenna on my desk at work with a clear view of San Francisco’s Sutro Tower, from which I could pick up nearly 40 channels.

The brain of the Hybrid is the EyeTV 3 software that comes with it (which you can also purchase separately for $80 and use with hardware from more than a dozen other companies).

Using the EyeTV software you can watch live TV; pause and rewind live shows thanks to a storage buffer (by default, 2GB, but you can change the size, and therefore the length of buffer time); schedule and record future programs; and watch recorded programs on your computer. (Using the $5 EyeTV iPhone app, you can watch live and recorded TV on your iPhone or iPod touch, as well). The software includes one year of TV Guide program data ($20 per year in subsequent years) that shows, among other things, what episodes are coming up on what channels and whether they are new episodes or repeats. (This info is similar to the guide data you’d get from a TiVo or other DVR.)

The hardware/software combo offers most of the features you’d expect from a DVR. When you find a program in the guide, you can click it to switch to a view showing a summary, the length, actors, and more. From there, you can click the Add Schedule button to set a program to record, or Record All to set what Elgato calls a Smart Series—akin to TiVo’s season pass—to record all future episodes. One problem with the way the EyeTV software handles series recordings, however, is that there’s no way to limit the number of episodes it will record or keep, and since there’s also no way to tell the software to leave a certain amount of free space on your hard drive, recordings can gobble up every last megabyte of room if you’re not careful (an hour-long HD episode of Chuck took up 5.7GB, for example). If you set up a manual recurring recording, you can set the number of shows to keep, but that somewhat defeats the purpose of built-in series functionality.

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With U.S. models, the EyeTV software now supports several cable and satellite set-top boxes. However, it can’t change the channels on those boxes, so you’ll need to purchase and set up an IR blaster—a hardware/software combo that relays infrared remote commands—a process that can be difficult. And because you must hook the Hybrid up to the set-top box’s analog outputs, you can’t view or capture shows in all their HD glory.

The software can wake or boot up your Mac to record a scheduled program, but I ran into problems on one Mac with lots of login items—although the Mac Pro started up just fine, some combination of login items prevented the Elgato app from launching and recording as expected. On my MacBook, however, the software launched and recorded just fine.

In addition to watching shows in the EyeTV software, you can export recordings for playback on devices such as Apple TVs, iPhones, and iPods; convert recordings and automatically add them to iTunes; and send recordings to Toast or iMovie. If you want polish up files and save space before exporting (remove commercials, for example) there’s a built-in editor. Although somewhat tedious to use—you need to mark off each section you want to remove, and then select the Compact command, which takes a while and can’t be undone later—it’s nice for archiving shows for future viewing.

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Although you can control everything in the software from your computer, you might want to, say, sit back on the couch and watch TV on your huge iMac without having to walk back and forth to your computer. The Hybrid comes with an infrared (line-of-sight) remote control for this purpose. However, while the remote works fine when watching on a laptop, since the sensor points in the direction you’d be sitting, with a desktop system, you need to use the USB extender cable—and even then, the Hybrid might not be facing the right way for the remote to work. Also, the remote’s buttons and minimal labels don’t make it as easy to use as it should be.

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Macworld’s buying advice

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If you live somewhere with good over-the-air reception or have unencrypted cable channels, the EyeTV Hybrid is a great way to watch, record, and convert TV shows. If you’re hoping to use it with your cable or satellite box, it’s still a complicated process and you can’t get HD quality.