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Eye TV Hybrid!

Dr_Maybe said:
What if you have analog cable tv, but also want to recieve terrestial channels? It looks like there is only one antenna input.

I guess it would be necessary to switch between an antenna for DVB-T and cable for PAL.
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What you'd need is an A/B input switch from Radio Shack (or equivalent electronics shop). It has two inputs and one output and you push a button to change inputs. Simple, easy, and far cheaper than a dual-input tuner.
 
matticus008 said:
What you'd need is an A/B input switch from Radio Shack (or equivalent electronics shop). It has two inputs and one output and you push a button to change inputs. Simple, easy, and far cheaper than a dual-input tuner.
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I thought that would work as well. I'll look into this Hybrid once my next pay check comes in and my apartment gets wired for digital cable. :D
 
Personally I was conisidering either this or the Miglia Tv Micro. Anyone have the Micro? Good? Bad? I searched the forums but posts about the mciro are scarce.
 
Sucks that Apple can't just recognize a need for this option in their portable (and home?) lines and include a tuner into the card. If Elgato can make it that small, Apple can certainly integrate it. And the amount of extra functionality the software would receive with the Apple treatment would be pretty great, I think.

Anyone agree?
 
imnotatfault said:
Sucks that Apple can't just recognize a need for this option in their portable (and home?) lines and include a tuner into the card. If Elgato can make it that small, Apple can certainly integrate it. And the amount of extra functionality the software would receive with the Apple treatment would be pretty great, I think.

Anyone agree?
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And what sort of tuner do you think Apple should integrate? Analog-PAL, Analog-NTSC, Cable, DTT/DVB, or Satellite? Should it be standard, HD, or both? Which HD should it support?

Are you beginning to see why Apple don't include a tuner?
 
So, considering the jutting out thing is easily solved with a USB extension lead, what you're really asking for is an extra USB port on every Mac. Now asking for that I can understand. You simply can't have enough USB ports on a Mac, especially since iPod firewire was abandoned.

But building the tuner in just leaves you with a great big co-ax cable sticking out the back of your computer. Ugly as hell and not very manageable.
 
dynamicv said:
So, considering the jutting out thing is easily solved with a USB extension lead, what you're really asking for is an extra USB port on every Mac. Now asking for that I can understand. You simply can't have enough USB ports on a Mac, especially since iPod firewire was abandoned.

But building the tuner in just leaves you with a great big co-ax cable sticking out the back of your computer. Ugly as hell and not very manageable.
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True True. Maybe the tuner could be connected to the coax and it could broadcast over Wi-fi once the 802.11N (or whatever standard it will be called once it's finalized) networks come into play. Now that would be nice!
 
Now you're talking. Like an Airport Express with a tuner built in. Maybe even a dual tuner so that you could record one channel whilst watching another, and all linked into Front Row. That would be one nice bit of kit :)
 
Sadly I'll be very surprised if Apple, ElGato or Miglia don't already have it running as a prototype in their labs. I do wish the EyeTV software was a fifth option on the Front Row screen, but apart from that I'm quite happy with the way it integrates.
 
dynamicv said:
Now you're talking. Like an Airport Express with a tuner built in. Maybe even a dual tuner so that you could record one channel whilst watching another, and all linked into Front Row. That would be one nice bit of kit :)
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what I want is a universal way to link to a USB 2 port over Ethernet, then connect a printer/scanner, or ElGato Hybrid, or whatever.
 
dynamicv said:
Sadly I'll be very surprised if Apple, ElGato or Miglia don't already have it running as a prototype in their labs. I do wish the EyeTV software was a fifth option on the Front Row screen, but apart from that I'm quite happy with the way it integrates.
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It is with the latest version EyeTV 2.3, as long as you start eyetv before starting frontrow :)
 
MacRumorUser said:
It is with the latest version EyeTV 2.3, as long as you start eyetv before starting frontrow :)
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I don't have Front Row. Is this feature even that useful for someone with it installed?
 
dynamicv said:
Sadly I'll be very surprised if Apple, ElGato or Miglia don't already have it running as a prototype in their labs. I do wish the EyeTV software was a fifth option on the Front Row screen, but apart from that I'm quite happy with the way it integrates.
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It actually does exist in some form. There is a wireless cable TV system, though I think it has a 1:1 relationship--only one client per server. However, a typical wireless network could only handle two or three clients along with normal network traffic.

I didn't really examine the package to see how it worked, but I imagine it can be tuned independently and acts basically as an additional CATV jack, except with no wiring involved.
 
I got an email about this recently. Sounds good, but they look so damn ugly. Think I'll stick to my EyeTV for DTT. It basically was designed for the PowerBook.
 
I briefly skimmed through this thread, so excuse me if I missed what I'm about to ask.

I've been wanting to connect my Xbox 360 to my iMac, so that I can record my gaming sessions, along with my analog tv. So will this new hybrid get the job done and do it well? Is it the best solution or is there other options out there for cheaper?
 
I'm confused by Elgato's amateurish website... is this product released? When you go to order it, it says "preorder only".

Has anyone purchased one of these?
 
desenso said:
I'm confused by Elgato's amateurish website... is this product released? When you go to order it, it says "preorder only".

Has anyone purchased one of these?
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The Aug 17 news item at macminute.com says "available later this month."
 
Bought one - and it is worthless.

The Elgato EyeTV Hybrid is useless for trying to view or record HDTV in at least the Los Angeles area. Does fine with SD from a cable box, but cannot view HD feeds. The over-the-air nonsense is worthless. All local non-pay stations show up as "Encrypted". Regular SD TV is fair. I do stress the unit trying to display on a 30" monitor despite hardware that is as good as it can get (Mac Pro QUad 3.0, 6 GB Ram, ATI X1900XT video, RAID 0 Raptors).
 
Neurorad said:
The Elgato EyeTV Hybrid is useless for trying to view or record HDTV in at least the Los Angeles area. Does fine with SD from a cable box, but cannot view HD feeds. The over-the-air nonsense is worthless. All local non-pay stations show up as "Encrypted". Regular SD TV is fair. I do stress the unit trying to display on a 30" monitor despite hardware that is as good as it can get (Mac Pro QUad 3.0, 6 GB Ram, ATI X1900XT video, RAID 0 Raptors).
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When you say the "over the air nonsense is worthless" do you mean the content of the channels that you receive over the air is worthless, or that the reception of the over the air channels is worthless?
 
Elgato EyeTV Hybrid

In the Los Angeles area, within sight of major broadacast attenae on Mt. Wilson, only a handful of stations can be found, even with an active/powered external attena. Of the stations found, none of the major stations can actually be viewed - they are simply listed as "encrypted", even though these should be the free broadcasts, not the premium channels. The few that do have an image, are not HD and are obscure channels not worth wasting time on. Connecting a coaxial cable directly to the cable box/decoder does not help - no HD stations are found.

And EyeTV is the ONLY program (asides from early betas of Parallels) that routinely Kernel Panics my machine!

Better of with a simple $99 USB-TV adapter - if you live in a city like LA wihtou broadacst HD. If anyone has any suggestion/solutions, please post!
 
This might be a little bit off topic but...

what I want is a universal way to link to a USB 2 port over Ethernet, then connect a printer/scanner, or ElGato Hybrid, or whatever.
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You can get a USB extender that uses CAT5 to extend the USB. I've seen them used to extend keyboards, mice, etc close on to 100m. Although I'm not sure about bandwidth, but seeing that you can actually get gigabit speeds over standard CAT5 maybe it will be sufficient?

Maybe even find a way of routing the CAT5 section it thru an Airport Express? I'm sure bandwidth would be a problem though......If it works at all! :confused:
 
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