#Eyetv hd video recorder install
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.
#Eyetv hd video recorder 720p
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. Wait for Windows to install the drivers, which it should do automagically: Getting the EyeTV to work with WMC is a two step process. If you have any version of Windows 7, you should have (or can install) Windows Media Center. This isn’t a review of Windows 7 or the Windows Media Center, so I’m going to breeze through this pretty quickly. I did not verify this, but I expect the IR codes used are compatible with/the same as Hauppauge-based tuners/remotes, so it may be fairly simple to use a universal remote. The remote is one of those standard gray slabs we all know and love. The left edge has the IR receiver for the remote. Not that you can use it with it removed, anyway – but we’ll get back to that later. The large antenna/coax adapter on the right is often not shown in promotional/web shots on the elgato web site, but the review unit arrived with it attached and I wasn’t able to remove it with gentle tugging. The device itself is roughly the size of your average USB memory stick. For the review I set the EyeTV up on a couple Windows Laptops (an HP “entertainment” class laptop with Core 2 Duo CPU and Windows 7 Home Premium, and an Acer Aspire One netbook with 2GB ram, running Windows 7 ultimate) and one MacBook.īefore we get to the nuts and bolts, let me show you the reviver and remote up close. The photo above shows you everything in the box: the EyeTV receiver, a USB extension cable, the breakout cable for connecting analog sources, Mac software, and the IR Remote.
If you’re a Mac, the included EyeTV 3 software enables viewing and recording for you. The EyeTV is fully supported without additional drivers under Windows 7, via Windows Media Center. It even has adapters so you can hook up a Composite or S-Video source (such as an analog camcorder) to capture standard definition video. It’s “hybrid” in that it will tune just about anything you’ve got: analog cable/tv, Digital/HDTV, and Clear QAM digital cable.
#Eyetv hd video recorder for mac
The elgato EyeTV Hybrid is a beautiful little USB 2.0 TV Tuner for Mac or Windows computers. If you buy something through the links on this page, we may earn a commission at no cost to you.
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