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I also had a Winegard SS-3000 indoor amplified antenna handy (I seem to collect antennas) and sure enough, it only pulled in the closest couple of stations from inside my house – and it’s nearly three feet across. Plugging into that monster on the roof got me upwards of 40 digital channels. When the EyeTV arrived for review I tried it naked, with no antenna, and as I expected got no channels at all. The antenna still sits, neglected, on the roof. Fast forward to 2010, and Comcast gives me all the HD I want. From my home to the big HDTV broadcast tower in San Fransisco, I needed not only a full-sized rooftop antenna, but also a 10 foot poll to mount onto the chimney, to put it up high enough. I went through this dance in the early 2000s when I got my first HDTV – before the digital transition, and before Comcast even offered HD. Depending on where you live (or where you want to watch TV) you’ll need anything from a small set-top antenna to a large rooftop one. What you have here is a really small TV tuner. It seems silly to have to point that out, but you could get the impression that an antenna isn’t needed. Without a fairly decent sized antenna, or a Cable TV source, you’re not going to be seeing anything with it. Tuning, Antennas and Other Small DetailsĪs promised, this is my big problem with this nifty little adapter. This shouldn’t be a problem for any Mac with a Core 2 or better CPU. I actually don’t have any analog sources left in the house to test the analog recording, but it clearly states on the elgato site that analog recording is encoded as mpg2 via software, and not on the EyeTV hardware itself. A small clip from the opening of a world cup game, recorded via EyeTV 3, is available here. I was able to record digital sources even on a very underpowered Macbook without difficulty.
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You can change settings in full screen mode as expected. It pops back up if you move the mouse (that’s why its in all my screen shots!) but it does go away if you’re using the IR remote. In full screen mode, the on-screen remote disappears after a few seconds.
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Navigation via the keyboard, on screen remote, or physical remote was straightforward, and the software worked equally well in windowed mode (in case you wanted to work with the TV on in the background) or in full screen mode. It performed as expected during the review.
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The EyeTV 3 software is a full featured DVR, with built in program guide, scheduler, series recorder, and timeshifting/pausing live TV. You can also use your Mac remote, if your Macintosh has one. After a few setup screens, success again:Īs with Windows, the EyeTV remote fully controls the software. I used the same Digital over the air antenna, and (not surprisingly!) found the same channels. Installation went without a hitch:Īs in the case with Windows, the setup detects the device and walks you though setting up/detecting channels, and determining what guide you should be using based on your service.
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On the Mac you’ll need to install the EyeTV 3 software to get to the point of viewing/recording video. Phyiscal installation on the Mac is identical.
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Below are two frames from recordings made in WMC with the EyeTV of 1080i and 720p programs:Īs expected, digital TV captures (and live viewing) work beautifully. A small clip of the ABC nightly news (720p) is available here. I captured a few seconds of our local NBC and ABC stations to get 1080i and 720p video. Windows 7 can’t take a screen shot of a full-screen video overlay, so first here is a shot of PBS in a window. I tuned to a couple of HD channels and verified that both 720p and 1080i HDTV works fine. The EyeTV remote is fully supported under WMC and, assuming you can see the dongle itself with the remote, works fine from normal “couch” distance of 6-10 feet. Very promising! Continuing on for another few setup screens finally leads to victory: This is showing that, when plugged into my very large HDTV antenna coax cable (we’ll get back to that at the end, I promise!) WMC and the EyeTV agree that they can see lots of HDTV over the air channels. One of the many many windows you will see is: Fire up WMC and it will walk you through the configuration for your TV source. After a while, Windows will tell you it’s ready to use.
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