EyeTV 3.0.4 update fixes "Record All Matches" bug
Ars Technica - Infinite Loop — ... released its 3.0.4 EyeTV upgrade. EyeTV, which works with many brands of tuners, lets you watch and schedule TV recordings under Mac OS X. I have a love/hate/love relationship with my EyeTV software and hardware. On one hand, EyeTV gives me the on-Macintosh television access I crave. (I have long since relegated the TiVo to my children's TV-watching tastes.) But it's never quite as trustworthy as TiVo. And yet, I rely on EyeTV to capture my grown-up shows, and I don't want to live without it. The new update promises improved stability and ...

EyeTV software gets maintenance update
Macsimum News — ... Elgato has released EyeTV 3.0.4, a free update to the EyeTV 3 television software. It includes some improvements to the editor, some additional hardware support, and a few bug fixes that are country specific. ...

Free-to-view digital TV coming to iPhone
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence — Elgato is developing new technologies that will allow Mac users to stream digital free-to-view channels directly to their iPhone. Television and the iPhone are twin stories, certainly in the UK, and the technology to bring mobile TV to Apple's global audience of iPhone users is already in place, to an extent. Elgato currently enables users of its digital tuner systems to encode recorded shows for streaming via WiFi - but the new scheme should see more automation and suggests more efficient compression to help boost these ...

EyeTV software gets maintenance update
Macsimum News — ... Elgato has released EyeTV 2.5.3, a free update to the EyeTV television software. The upgrade improves VHF reception for Australian users and offers fixes for live buffer recording crashes and manual schedule problems under Mac OS X 10.5 (“Leopard”). ...

MWSF: Elgato introduces new EyeTV Hybrid, updates EyeTV software
Macsimum News — ... Elgato has introduced a new version of the EyeTV Hybrid tuner stick and a new version of EyeTV at this week’s Macworld Conference & Expo.The new, US$150 EyeTV Hybrid sports FM radio capabilities, a new program guide, and series recording functionality. ...

Macworld Expo Blog Bits (Part 1)
The Mac Observer — ... is much more than a DVD-burning utility. You can use it to save videos from the Web, from TiVO recorders or from EyeTV -- and easily convert files to the exact format you want, such as for the iPhone. You can even use it to stream shows from an EyeTV or TiVo to your iPhone (I didn't see this demoed at the Expo, but that's the claim). The EyeTV Hybrid itself is a sleek, ultra-small unit that brings TV reception (and now FM radio) to your Mac. To be continued tomorrow. [Note: Overcoming my concerns about how much of a time-sucker it can be, I am now actively posting and following ...

Elgato, Hauppauge enable HDTV recording for the Mac
Macsimum News — ... Elgato and Hauppauge Digital have teamed up to bring high definition TV recording using H.264 to the Mac. Using the Hauppauge HD PVR USB 2.0 personal video recorder and the latest version (3.1) of Elgato’s EyeTV 3 software, users can watch and record HDTV from a cable or satellite set... ...

Watch commercial-free TV in Front Row with PyeTV
MAKE Magazine: hacks — If you're a Mac EyeTV user, you can bring your recorded shows into Front Row, commercial-free, with PyeTV and ETVComskip: This plugin allows access to EyeTV from within Front Row on Leopard, adding a EyeTV item to Front Row's top level menu. The plugin gives access to EyeTV's recordings (grouped by series), along with an image preview and recording metadata. PyeTV also integrates with ETVComskip, a Mac OS X port of comskip (http://www.kaashoek.com/comskip/) designed to work with EyeTV. ETVComskip allows users of EyeTV to ...

Watch commercial-free TV in Front Row with PyeTV
MAKE Magazine — If you're a Mac EyeTV user, you can bring your recorded shows into Front Row, commercial-free, with PyeTV and ETVComskip: This plugin allows access to EyeTV from within Front Row on Leopard, adding a EyeTV item to Front Row's top level menu. The plugin gives access to EyeTV's recordings (grouped by series), along with an image preview and recording metadata. PyeTV also integrates with ETVComskip, a Mac OS X port of comskip (http://www.kaashoek.com/comskip/) designed to work with EyeTV. ETVComskip allows users of EyeTV to ...

The MacReviewCast #200: Join us for this Special Episode
Macsimum News — ... The star of Episode 200 is Lola Wong. Besides doing episode number 7 of the MacReviewCast lounge where I join her this week, Lola does a special MRC episode 200 series of Mixes with the help of several other editors. Thank you Lola for all the work, I’m sure you will enjoy it as much as I did. eyetv hybrid from Elgato: http://www.elgato.com Fujitsu snapscan s300m: ...

Elgato turbo.264 (h.264 Video Encoder) Review
The Gadgeteer — The turbo.264 video encoder from Elgato has been available for several years. Software improvements along the way, have only made it more useful (and easier) for those who convert video content into the h.264 format. While it has been on the market for quite some time, this device is truly in a class by itself. Put bluntly, the turbo.264 sole purpose in life is to convert video into h.264 while reducing the burden on your processor and accomplishing the feat in a fraction of the time. ...

How Do You Love the Mac Mini? Let Us Count the Ways
Wired: Gadget Lab — ... 31 of you use the Mac Mini as a home theater PC, connecting it directly to a TV or HD monitor to watch TV, downloaded videos, Hulu, etc. Several of you mentioned that you ran EyeTV or the ...

Hands On With Elgato’s EyeTV Hybrid
Wired: Gadget Lab — I hate TV. It seems so limited. Ads, fixed schedules and limitless junk floating through the airwaves seems so primitive. I haven’t owned a TV for five years — everything comes through BitTorrent or via podcast. But I hate speaking bad Spanish even more, which is why this weekend I picked up Elgato’s EyeTV Hybrid, a USB stick which will let me watch as many culebrones as I like. My teacher tells me I should watch more TV to help learn the language, so I decided to do it on my MacBook. The Hybrid is, as the name suggests, a mixture. It can pick up analog signals along ...

Elgato launches Turbo.264 HD
Macsimum News — Elgato launches Turbo.264 HD Posted by Dennis Sellers Apple ico Mar 19, 2009 at 1:30pm image Elgato has announced the US$149.95 Turbo.264 HD, a tool that converts video files to a format that can be played on an iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV, used on a computer, and shared on the web. Turbo.264 HD is especially targeted to anyone who owns an HD camcorder. It automatically detects AVCHD camcorders and moves recordings to the Mac or iPod in one step. Turbo.264 HD comes with a software application that enables Mac users to convert just about any popular video format to a H.264 file ...

Elgato Releases Turbo.264 HD Video Convertor [TheAppleBlog]
GigaOM Network — ... Elgato is a company synonymous with television and video hardware products for the Mac. Today they announced the availability of Turbo.264 HD, a hardware conversion tool that offers a fast way to encode video between formats or move video off your HD camcorder. Many different software tools exist for converting video on the Mac, ranging from QuickTime itself, to more advanced solutions such as HandBrake. Depending upon the Mac hardware you’re running, these software solutions may mean an ...

Apple software updates for April 6
Macsimum News — ... Elgato has relased version 1.0.1 of its software for the US$149.95 Turbo.264 HD, a tool that converts video files to a format that can be played on an iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV, used on a computer, and shared on the web. ...

Macsimum review: Elgato Turbo.264 HD a must-have for Mac, AVCHD camcorder owners
Macsimum News — ... Elgato has announced the US$149.95 Turbo.264 HD, a tool that converts video files to a format that can be played on an iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV, used on a computer, and shared on the web. Admittedly, I wasn’t that big a fan of the original Turbo.264—I just didn’t find... ...

Macsimum review: Elgato Turbo.264 HD a must-have for Mac, AVCHD camcorder owners
MacBytes.com — Macsimum review: Elgato Turbo.264 HD a must-have for Mac, AVCHD camcorder owners Posted by Dennis Sellers Apple ico Apr 14, 2009 at 9:00am image Elgato recently released the US$149.95 Turbo.264 HD, a tool that converts video files to a format that can be played on an iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV, used on a computer, and shared on the web. Admittedly, I wasn’t that big a fan of the original Turbo.264—I just didn’t find that I needed it that much—but the new version (more powerful but smaller than its predecessor) has certainly wowed me. Turbo.264 HD is especially targeted to ...

Macsimum review: Elgato Turbo.264 HD a must-have for Mac, AVCHD camcorder owners
MacBytes.com — Macsimum review: Elgato Turbo.264 HD a must-have for Mac, AVCHD camcorder owners Posted by Dennis Sellers Apple ico Apr 14, 2009 at 1:03pm image Elgato recently released the US$149.95 Turbo.264 HD, a tool that converts video files to a format that can be played on an iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV, used on a computer, and shared on the web. Admittedly, I wasn’t that big a fan of the original Turbo.264—I just didn’t find that I needed it that much—but the new version (more powerful but smaller than its predecessor) has certainly wowed me. Turbo.264 HD is especially targeted to ...

Turbo H.264 HD encoder can now upload to MediaSilo’s online video asset management system
Macsimum News — ... and Elgato have announced direct upload capabilities from Elgato’s Turbo H.264 HD encoder to MediaSilo’s online video asset management system. ...

Elgato Video Capture puts analog video on the Mac, iPhone, iPod
Macsimum News — ... Elgato has released Elgato Video Capture, a solution for transferring analog video—including home movies on VHS tape—  to a Mac, iPhone and iPod. Elgato Video Capture connects VCRs, set top boxes, camcorders, DVD players, and other analog video sources to the Mac via USB 2.0. ...

Elgato Video Capture
Mac|Life all RSS Feed — The Elgato Video Capture works as promised, but lacks bells and whistles. If you are the kind of person that likes to "set it and forget it," you're in the money—the incredibly simple software only takes four clicks to output a good-quality video file. On the other hand, more advanced users will find themselves frustrated at the lack of options. Elgato Video Capture COMPANY: Elgato Systems CONTACT: www.elgato.com ...

Aluratek AIREC01F
Mac|Life all RSS Feed — ... The Aluratek is a UPnP-compatible device, so it should be able to read music stored on a Universal Plug-n-Play server. But the manual recommends PC-only software for hosting the server. To run a UPnP server on our Mac, we installed Elgato’s EyeConnect ($49.95, www.elgato.com) after not having luck getting the Aluratek to work with Playback ($15, ...

Elgato ships EyeTV for iPhone
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence — Elgato has introduced an App for streaming TV recordings from a Mac to an iPhone or iPod touch, EyeTV for iPhone. The software means users of the Elgato EyeTV TV tuner family of devices can view their show recordings wherever they are around their home using a WiFi network. Better still, they can also control their TV tuner, setting it up for remote recording, scheduling as well as providing a TV guide. The app connects to any Mac running the latest version of Elgato's software, EyeTV 3.2, and will automatically locate a Mac on the local network ...

EyeTV app for iPhone released
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — Filed under: Accessories, Multimedia, iPhone, iPod touch, App Review Elgato, maker of EyeTV, has released EyeTV for iPhone [iTunes Link], an app that allows access to both live and recorded video content from any Mac running EyeTV 3.2 or later. The $4.99 app lets you view live and recorded TV on your iPhone or iPod touch over your local network, and it also allows you to access the same content from a remote WiFi location using a service called ...

In the news
iPhone J.D. — ... that is possible, but it seems just as likely to me that Apple sees the increasing importance of location-based services on devices like the iPhone and Apple bought the company so that Waldman and his team would bring their experience to help Apple on these initiatives.  For example, I'm sure that you know that the Maps app on the iPhone works with Google Maps, but did you know that it was Apple, not Google, who wrote that app? If you have a Mac with a TV tuner and the EyeTV software, you can record over the air TV shows on your Mac to watch later.  MacNN ...

Smallest-ever Freeview receiver launched
Techradar - All the latest technology news — ... dongle is free from any other cables. Also included in the box is a handy infrared remote. Depending on which type of computer you use, the EyeTV DTT Deluxe works with Windows Media Centre (PC) or iTunes (Mac). If you are using a Mac, then you have the added bonus of being able to stream TV content on to your iPhone via the device and also other Macs within your vicinity. The EyeTV DTT Deluxe is out now and will be available for £79.95. Go to www.elgato.com for more details. ...

EyeTV App Lets You Steam Over 3G
Mac|Life all RSS Feed — ... An "work around" in the EyeTV application for iPhone lets you stream your television from your Mac over the AT&T 3G network, but probably not for long. ...

Apple declares war on the entire PC industry
Betanews — ... "The 27-inch iMac is too big and too pricey at $1,699." Maybe, but the screen size makes the desktop a potential computer and TV, when streaming or playing programs or when attached to a tuner from companies like El Gato. ...