This isn’t a review of Windows 7 or the Windows Media Center, so I’m going to breeze through this pretty quickly. I did not verify this, but I expect the IR codes used are compatible with/the same as Hauppauge-based tuners/remotes, so it may be fairly simple to use a universal remote. The remote is one of those standard gray slabs we all know and love. The left edge has the IR receiver for the remote. Not that you can use it with it removed, anyway – but we’ll get back to that later. The large antenna/coax adapter on the right is often not shown in promotional/web shots on the elgato web site, but the review unit arrived with it attached and I wasn’t able to remove it with gentle tugging. The device itself is roughly the size of your average USB memory stick. For the review I set the EyeTV up on a couple Windows Laptops (an HP “entertainment” class laptop with Core 2 Duo CPU and Windows 7 Home Premium, and an Acer Aspire One netbook with 2GB ram, running Windows 7 ultimate) and one MacBook.īefore we get to the nuts and bolts, let me show you the reviver and remote up close. The photo above shows you everything in the box: the EyeTV receiver, a USB extension cable, the breakout cable for connecting analog sources, Mac software, and the IR Remote. If you’re a Mac, the included EyeTV 3 software enables viewing and recording for you. The EyeTV is fully supported without additional drivers under Windows 7, via Windows Media Center. It even has adapters so you can hook up a Composite or S-Video source (such as an analog camcorder) to capture standard definition video. It’s “hybrid” in that it will tune just about anything you’ve got: analog cable/tv, Digital/HDTV, and Clear QAM digital cable. The elgato EyeTV Hybrid is a beautiful little USB 2.0 TV Tuner for Mac or Windows computers. If you buy something through the links on this page, we may earn a commission at no cost to you. Elgato says this problem will be fixed in the next update to the EyeTV software.We use affiliate links. 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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