HDTV Comes to the Mac 24
konfoo writes "Elgato just announced the availability of their FireWire DTV ATSC receiver (ATSC is the USA standard for digital and high definition television), EyeTV 500, at a price of around $350. It can be used in tandem with TitanTV to get EPG data and pick shows to record. Now Mac owners too can view and record those hidef broadcasts. On a sidenote, lets hope that the broadcast flag and other efforts don't squelch cool new products such as this." We reviewed the original EyeTV USB a year and a half ago. Since then, their product line has expanded, with all other models sporting FireWire, and covering a variety of analog and digital TV sources.
scriptability (Score:5, Informative)
g5 only (Score:2, Informative)
Apple provides free HDTV recording tools at ADC (Score:5, Informative)
This presupposes you can get the hardware HDTV box from your cable company, but that's usually only a nominal fee (+$10 a month).
~jeff
Re:g5 only (Score:4, Informative)
I'd really like to know how useful this box is. I'd love to watch TV on my Mac, but I'm not even sure how many "over-the-air" channels I have anymore, much less HD channels...
oh well
HDTV Mac OS X for Australia (Score:2, Informative)
http://www.defyne.org/dvb/
Daryl