Ha. I just got all excited, clicked over to the App Store, bought this, then remembered I sold my EyeTV Hybrid about a month ago.
Crap.
You should buy the app now just in case it's pulled.
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EyeTV Easter Egg Allows for Video Streaming Via 3G Networks
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You should buy the app now just in case it's pulled.
Here in Austrian App Store it's still available.
I am considering to buy a Mac Mini just for TV "broadcasting".
Absolutely. That's it. Who has time shift, pause, comfortable recorder programming and extensive EPG at the home tv set?
It looks really good. Image and sound (stereo) quality top. I've made a short technical demo videoclip (it's via different Wi-Fis but the quality is the same like via 3G).
Here a screenshot that I've made some minutes ago on 3G:
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Orb does it. Officially. Elgato seemed to be pretty far down the front of Apple's trousers, what with Apple selling their stuff in Apple stores. I wonder what this might to do their relationship.
Inglourious Basterds !!! ...with apologies to Quentin Tarantino.
They pulled it! http://images.macrumors.com/vb/images/smilies/mad.gif
When oh when are the US regulators going to blow up AT&T and Apple's ship over this continuing anti-competitive, ant-trust stuff!
I downloaded my copy but could not get the rest of the team to download theirs. Make's you want to break copyright and transfer my copy to my team? How do I do that anyway?
They pulled it! http://images.macrumors.com/vb/images/smilies/mad.gif
When oh when are the US regulators going to blow up AT&T and Apple's ship over this continuing anti-competitive, ant-trust stuff!
I downloaded my copy but could not get the rest of the team to download theirs. Make's you want to break copyright and transfer my copy to my team? How do I do that anyway?
I tried it for 2 hours driving up and down i-5 and it worked great. I can't tell how much data it used though since I havn't reset my statistics. The only thing I really do is check my e-mail and omnifocus sync so i'd say about 1 GB? Maybe I don't know thats pretty high.
Still worked great.
It's only live TV that is prohibited. You can stream pre-recorded video or video files from your HD using a variety of apps that are available on the iTunes Store.
This is why SlingPlayer was caught in the sling -- they feature streaming of live TV. Any pre-recorded content has to exist on a DVR that can be controlled by the SlingPlayer remote and I suspect that the SlingPlayer can't really determine whether it is streaming live or recorded video and thus it was forced to disable playback over 3G (since it could be live TV).
Apple should at least just make it a carrier file setting to what you can/can't do over 3G on that provider's network.
I'm with 3 here in Australia, and they advertise that you can use Skype on compatible phones (over 3G) and even have some live TV streaming for sporting events.
Just because AT&T can't get their act together, doesn't mean the rest of the world should suffer too.
I'm with 3 here in Australia, and they advertise that you can use Skype on compatible phones (over 3G) and even have some live TV streaming for sporting events.
Just because AT&T can't get their act together, doesn't mean the rest of the world should suffer too.
This will get pulled. It is in direct violation of Apple's policy on iPhone Easter Eggs. It clearly states that Easter Eggs are allowed, provided they give Apple the details of how to activate them on submission of the app. Developers that fail to do this will get their app pulled from the store.
The inherent problem with 'secret' Easter Eggs is that they need to be publicised so that people can know about them, but then that also lets the cat out of the bag for Apple!
The inherent problem with 'secret' Easter Eggs is that they need to be publicised so that people can know about them, but then that also lets the cat out of the bag for Apple!
Macworld UK: Apple pulls Elgato EyeTV app over backdoor 3G streaming. Elgato is quoted there:
I will not upgrade—and soon I'll call it "Cat & Mouse Phone".
I will not upgrade—and soon I'll call it "Cat & Mouse Phone".
Doesn't matter. It's been pulled. Case closed.
Does anyone in their right mind still think that AT&T doesn't play a significant role in the app approval process? I hope the FCC catches wind of this latest farce.
fpnc said:
But that is the point, it's only live TV that is prohibited and that's why the current version of EyeTV was pulled. However, you can configure EyeTV to automatically convert any recording to a 3G-enabled format that will begin as soon as the TV show ends (plus the required encoding time). Thus, you can do a "tape delay" (if you will) of any TV show and be viewing it on your iPhone over 3G in a matter of minutes after the show is done. True, not the same as live TV and somewhat inconvenient but not too bad.
Since this app uses Apple's built-in HTTP streaming abilities, it would be possible to stream live TV through Safari if the EyeTV software on your computer made this URL available. Apple/AT&T couldn't do anything about it.
There would still be an incentive for buying their iPhone app for setting recording schedules, channel, previous recordings etc.
There would still be an incentive for buying their iPhone app for setting recording schedules, channel, previous recordings etc.
What's the big deal for AT&T? Bandwidth problems if everybody starts watching the USC football game at the same time on their iPhones?