How’s that Apple tattoo treating you? Good, good. Well, Elgato has something for the true: a brand-new EyeTV HD. The device grabs the 1080i vigilance over member from your DVR or wire box or Blu-ray player, as well as records which video to your Mac regulating Elgato’s own desktop DVR program. The shows can then be auto-transcoded to iPhone or iPad-friendliness, on condition that you the bit of much needed Animal Planet during your commute a subsequent day. That’s all good as well as good, but a genuine kicker is a live streaming a device can pull to your iPad or iPhone, regulating an IR blaster to shift a channel upon your wire box. It’s all rosy solely for a actuality which you’ll need to plug this directly into your Mac and your wire box, definition which they’ll have to be in sincerely tighten vicinity (there’s a six feet USB wire enclosed. The section retails for $200 and is available right away without delay from Elgato or Apple stores. PR is after a mangle.

We haven’t plugged in a box yet, though we played around with Elgato’s setup regulating an iPad 3G and found it pretty considerable. The streaming extravagant isn’t unequivocally at, contend, a Netflix level (it’s some-more matched to the phone shade, though it’s positively endurable, as well as a interface for browsing your own channels and recordings is really pleasing. We additionally loved a inclusion of meta interpretation and chapters in the available shows as well as cinema which had been installed onto the device (you can check that out in a gallery next. Elgato might’ve only expelled the most superb “analog hole” yet. Elgato EyeTV HD press shots

Elgato EyeTV HD hands-on

Show full PR textElgato Debuts EyeTV HD – The Ultimate DVR for High Definition TV
Full-featured DVR captures television, including reward channels, from wire or satellite receivers and delivers it live to Macs in full HD

Updated EyeTV 3.4 program will capacitate streaming of live or available TV upon Apple’s® iPad

San Francisco, Calif. – (May 24, 2010) – Today, Elgato debuted a world’s only DVR resolution that provides full access to reward cable or satellite TV content on the Mac – EyeTV HD. Customers can now watch record, revise as well as suffer wire as well as heavenly body in tall- clarification, together with all their reward channels. EyeTV HD includes a singular twin- format constraint mode which annals in iPad and iPhone formats at a same time, permitting users to stream live and available TV to an iPhone or iPad regulating a discretionary EyeTV app.

Easy Setup

EyeTV HD is the zephyr to setup as well as make use of; simply connect EyeTV HD to a outputs of a wire or satellite receiver with a enclosed component cables, as well as to a computer via USB. Then place a enclosed infrared channel changer wire circuitously. The EyeTV program setup assistant takes you by a elementary configuration process as well as in only the few minutes you’ll be enjoying all your premium calm like never prior to.

Unique dual-format constraint mode

EyeTV HD additionally has a singular dual-format constraint mode so which you can jot down in iPad and iPhone formats at a same time. EyeTV HD enables super-fast exports to iTunes from EyeTV. It is also probable to stream live TV, including tall definition TV, to iPad or iPhone, using a optional EyeTV for iPhone/iPad app.

Superb extravagant digital TV recordings

EyeTV HD annals in a primitive H.264 format for a crystal transparent, high-definition digital picture. The H.264 format delivers beautiful picture quality and the superb application comparative measure, that produces not as big record distance when compared to MPEG-2 recordings. H.264 can compare a most appropriate probable MPEG-2 peculiarity during up to half the data rate.

Capture HD as well as SD video from the camcorder or VCR

EyeTV HD can capture video from analog and digital sources such as the VCR or the camcorder. EyeTV HD includes component inputs for HD sources, as good as S-Video as well as composite inputs for customary clarification sources. Simply bond a video source to your computer using a enclosed dermatitis wire, afterwards watch and even jot down a picture upon your mechanism as an EyeTV recording.

Archive recordings

EyeTV HD additionally comes with Toast Basic disc-burning software so you can archive your the one preferred movies as well as TV shows as well as save space upon your hard drive.

Award-winning program

EyeTV HD comes with EyeTV 3, a award-winning TV program for Mac. Watch, postponement, as well as rewind live TV – during a table or upon the cot. Search a Program Guide regulating mixed criteria, and record a single show or emanate Smart Series Guides to record a complete season of a TV array. Edit recordings, as well as share them with alternative Macs upon the network. EyeTV can even trade TV shows to iTunes automatically for playback upon iPhone or iPad.

EyeTV 3 includes a single year of giveaway data from TV Guide, with discretionary renewal for usually US$19.95 per year. An discretionary EyeTV app is available to stream live or available TV to an iPhone or iPad. Smart Series Guide functionality requires the TV Guide subscription.

System RequirementsMacintosh: 2.26 GHz Intel Core® 2 Duo processor or improved, Mac OS X v10.5.8 or later2 GB IMPEL, built-in USB 2.0 portCable or heavenly body receiver with analog video as well as audio outputs (component outlay compulsory for HD)Internet connection compulsory to download Program Guide data.What’s In The Box:EyeTV HD recorderEyeTV 3 TV program for Mac (CD- ROM)Infrared remote control with battery packEyeTV infrared channel changerUSB wire (6 ft)Component video wire (6 ft)Stereo audio cables (6 ft)Breakout wire for combination as well as S- Video inputsPDF product primer (CD-ROM)Quick begin guideAvailability

EyeTV HD is accessible from the Elgato Online Store (www.elgato.com) and from the Apple Store during the cost of US $199.95.

About Elgato

Elgato produces award-winning TV software together with a finish operation of TV tuners as well as capture inclination to watch, jot down, as well as revise TV and HDTV upon Macs and PCs. Elgato is a home of EyeTV, a world’s heading radio resolution for Mac computers. Elgato also produces the accumulation of world-class H.264 video acclimatisation as well as streaming products. Elgato is secretly hold with offices in Munich, Germany and San Francisco, California.