It also has a TV guide functionality that comes free for the first year but costs $20 a year after that. Really, this is sort of only perfect for people who have Macs, in our opinion, because you can probably get a more affordable TV tuner elsewhere but if you're going with the Mac approach, EyeTV 3 is a really nice DVR package. Now, the included software, the EyeTV 3 software, is only for Macs so you're losing some of the value equation. If you're using a Windows computer, this will be compatible with Windows Media Center. It may be a little pricey compared to other USB tuners. That plugs into a small jack on the side which means you can also record video inputs from those sources, but, sorry, not HD sources. The EyeTV Hybrid also comes packaged with S-video and composite video in Here's where you plug in your coax cable and it also has IR around the edges that works with a remote that comes packaged with the Elgato Hybrid. You've probably seen a lot of these before. When it works, it's nice and plus you could pause live TV which is one of the cool features of it if you wanna watch a sporting event, let's say.Īlso, you can watch your recorded shows back on your computer on the app. The EyeTV does it by streaming to a computer first and then establishing a link to the EyeTV app that's available on the app store to an iPhone or an iPad. How about taking a live TV signal and streaming it onto your iPad? Well, in the ever growing world of iPad apps that stream video, here's one you may not have thought of. I think it will retail for about the same as Elgato's version.Hi, I'm Scott Stein and this is the Elgato EyeTV Hybrid, so why is there an iPad in this shot? Terratec were demoing their version of the Diversity USB stick at MacExpo. The HVR-900 is also bundled with a 20 discount voucher off the price of the Elgato EyeTV software 'for Mac users' however, this is currently on sale at the same discount, anyway (60 instead of 80) at Elgato's website. It also works with the Apple IR remote.Īlternatively, you can download the Hauppauge drivers and software to use with your Elgato Hybrid under Windows, if you want. It is up to you, and the same drivers are loaded anyway. You can either install it as the HVR-900 using the EyeTV software or as the Hybrid. The accompanying telescopic stick aerial from Hauppauge is a tad better than that bundled with the Elgato. The EyeTV Hybrid is also known as the Hauppauge HVR-900, which you can get from PCWorld for about £60, which I would advise as you save about £35-40 over the price of the Hybrid for software that you already have.

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