Elgato's EyeTv Hybrid

[Dont Hurt Me]

Well its taken awhile but today I received my new TV Hybrid and all i can say is COOL! My iMac is complete now that it has TV in. Well done Elgato. This thing was simply built to work with Mac.

 

[jaw04005]

My first problem is I don't know the difference between Analog and Digital TV. How do I know which one I have? Here at my college dorms we connect our TV's from a cable that we connect to the wall. Back at my house, however, we have iO Digital Cable. I'm guessing iO uses Digital TV from the box, but what about my school?

Your college uses analog cable. The first thing you need to do is find out is if your college's cable is directly from a service provider (Comcast, etc) or filtered through your school.

When visiting friends who live outside of campus, do they have the same cable (channel-wise) as you on campus?

If so, El Gato's Hybrid will be what you want. As you can select your local cable service from an online programming service provider and automatically record shows similar to TiVo.

If the on-campus cable is different, the Hybrid will still work but you will have to manually enter (or force reassign) each channel—which is time consuming.