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Elgato EyeTV Hybrid

EyeTV Hybrid is a superb all-in-one solution that delivers free-to-view digital and analogue television to your Mac via aerial and cable, as well as FM radio. Whatís more, EyeTV Hybrid can connect a variety of devices to your Mac via composite and S-Video such as a set top box for premium channels and satellite, a VCR, or a camcorder. Comes with EyeTV software and an EyeTV Remote.

  • Watch TV on your Mac
  • Rewind, fast forward, and pause live TV
  • Export recordings to your iPod, iPhone or Apple TV
  • Record hours of television on your Mac

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Overview

EyeTV Hybrid delivers free-to-view digital (DVB-T and DVB-C) and analogue television to your Mac via aerial and cable. With EyeTV Hybrid, you can also tune in to local FM radio on your Mac.

EyeTV Hybrid contains a full-size and built-in coaxial plug and does not require an adapter to connect cable or an aerial and comes with a composite (RCA) and S-Video break out cable to connect a variety of devices to your Mac, such as a set top box for premium channels and satellite, a VCR, or a camcorder.

Features

  • Receives free-to-view digital TV (DVB-T and DVB-C) as well as analogue TV
  • Receives FM radio
  • Conveniently-sized USB stick
  • Contains a full-size coaxial plug; does not require an adapter
  • Comes with an EyeTV Remote

All-in-One TV for your Mac

EyeTV Hybrid is the only TV tuner that delivers both digital and analogue TV to your Mac via aerial and cable. A superb all-round device, EyeTV Hybrid receives unencrypted digital TV via aerial (DVB-T, also known as DTT or Freeview), unencrypted cable (DVB-C), analogue cable and analogue aerial TV. In areas in which HDTV is broadcast, enjoy watching stunningly clear 720p or 1080i HDTV (MPEG-2 as well as H.264/AVC) on your Mac.

FM Radio

EyeTV Hybrid is the only EyeTV device that delivers FM radio to your Mac as well as television. Tune in, record your favourite radio programmes, and export them into iTunes to enjoy later on your iPod or iPhone.

Superb quality digital TV recordings

EyeTV Hybrid records digital TV in one quality setting, lossless. The digital stream is recorded unaltered for full quality digital content as encoded by the broadcaster. EyeTV Hybrid also supports multilingual programming and Dolby® Digital sound.

EyeTV Hybrid processes analogue signals using the encoder built into the EyeTV software together with your Mac’s processor. As a result, the quality of analogue video depends on the processor speed of your Mac.

Made for the Mac

With its classic matte aluminium finish and surprisingly small size for such a versatile product, the EyeTV Hybrid is a perfect complement to the Mac. It features a USB 2.0 interface for the streaming of superior quality TV content to your Mac. EyeTV Hybrid is USB powered and therefore requires no external power supply, and contains a built-in and full-size coaxial plug.

What’s in the Box

  • EyeTV Hybrid analogue/digital TV receiver
  • EyeTV 3 digital TV recorder software (CD-ROM)
  • DVB-T rod aerial with tilt/swivel magnetic base and detachable suction cup
  • Infrared remote control with battery pack
  • USB cable
  • Video cable
  • PDF product manual (CD-ROM)
  • Quick Start Guide

System Requirements

Macintosh computer with a PowerPC G4,G5 or Intel Core processor, 512 MB of physical RAM, a built-in USB 2.0 port, Mac OS X v10.4 or later. Internet connection required to download Program Guide data. A CD/DVD recorder and Toast Titanium software (not included) are required to create DVDs, SVCDs or Video CDs (optional). Note: 720p or 1080i HD features require an Intel Core 2 Duo processor. Analogue signals are processed via software encoder, therefore the quality of analogue video depends on the speed of your Mac’s processor.

DVB-T reception can vary by location, and a rooftop aerial may be required in areas with a weak or obstructed DVB-T signal.

EyeTV Hybrid is intended for use in countries supporting the PAL or SECAM standard (including Europe & Australia) and in countries where digital terrestrial television is broadcast. Digital terrestrial television is also known as DVB-T, DTT, Freeview in the UK, and TNT in France.

For a list of countries in which DVB standards have been adopted, visit www.dvb.org.

EyeTV 3 is the award-winning software that comes with all of Elgato's TV tuners.

EyeTV 3 Software Features

  • Watch TV on your Mac
  • Rewind, fast forward, and pause live TV
  • Search the Program Guide using detailed criteria – includes one year of free television listing data from tvtv (where available)
  • Record hours of television on your Mac
  • Edit out unwanted content
  • Create TV series subscriptions with Smart Guides
  • Organise recordings in Smart Playlists
  • Export recordings with one easy click of a button to your iPod, iPhone or Apple TV
  • Share recordings with multiple Macs in a local network
  • Access recordings via Wi-Fi on an iPod, and iPhone and selected SmartPhones
  • Store your recordings on an external drive, or burn to disc using Toast® 9 Titanium (not included)
  • And much more…

Watch live TV on your Mac

Turn your Mac into the coolest television in the house. Pause the TV show while you get a snack. Rewind and watch that great play again. Fast forward past the advertisements. Float the EyeTV window on top of other applications to keep an eye on your show while you work or surf the Web, and watch two TV windows Picture-in-Picture.

At your Desk or in the Living Room

Sit at your desk and navigate with a mouse, or stretch out on the couch with an EyeTV or an Apple Remote. EyeTV’s gorgeous On Screen menu makes it easy to channel surf and move through the Program Guide and menus.

Integrated, searchable Program Guide (EPG)

EyeTV puts detailed and up-to-date TV listings at your fingertips, ready to view and search using multiple search criteria and full text search terms. EyeTV’s integrated Program Guide harvests the TV listing data contained in over-the-air digital broadcasts as well as online sources such as TitanTV in the USA.

Organise channels

EyeTV provides detailed information about each television channel. Drag and drop the ones you watch most frequently into a “favourites” list, or go a step further and organise your sports, news, movie channels and more into their own lists. Each list of channels comes complete with matching Program Guide information.

If you travel frequently, you can save your channel list configuration for each location and easily switch between them with a click. No more re-auto tuning, renaming, or sorting channels after you’ve used your tuner in a different place.

Smart Guide subscriptions

Smart Guides create subscriptions based on any criteria you like. Smart Guides are automated searches that can add new episodes to a recording schedule as soon as they appear in the Program Guide. What’s more, you can manage the number of episodes that are retained, drop the recordings into Playlists, and even export the recordings automatically to an iPod, iPhone, or Apple TV.

Create Playlists

Organise your growing library of EyeTV recordings any way you like. File them by series and season, by artist, by genre – there is no limit to the number of Playlists you can create to store and find your recordings easily.

And to make things easy, you can tell EyeTV to do your filing for you. Simply create Smart Playlists to update in real time based on the criteria you choose. Or, set your recording schedule to go to a specific playlist automatically as soon as it finishes recording.

Edit your recordings

Use EyeTV’s built-in Editor to remove unwanted content from your recording, or to crop the beginning and end of the show. The Editor also enables you to create one or more short clips from a longer recording and save the clips individually. If you’re in a hurry, simply export video clips straight to your iPod, Apple TV or iPhone without saving them first.

Archive your collection

EyeTV integrates seamlessly with Roxio’s Toast® 8 Titanium (not included). To burn a DVD, simply select the recordings in EyeTV and click the Toast button – that’s all there is to it. You can also create a perfect back-up by dragging the recordings you’d like to backup from EyeTV directly into Toast’s data panel. Toast will span the data across multiple discs if necessary.

Turbo.264 Integration

EyeTV is fully integrated with Elgato’s Turbo.264 H.264 Hardware Encoder. Simply plug in Turbo.264 before you export for iPod, iPhone, or Apple TV formats, and before you prepare your EyeTV recordings for Wi-Fi Access. EyeTV will use the Turbo.264 as a co-processor to speed up the export without taxing your system resources.

Watch on an iPhone, iPod, and Apple TV

Enjoy last night’s late show on your iPod or iPhone during your morning commute. Watch your own recordings on your widescreen television with an Apple TV. Build up your iTunes library with TV content that you’ve recorded yourself. EyeTV makes it all happen with one easy click of a button, or simply set your recordings to export to iPod, iPhone or Apple TV automatically. Share recordings on a LAN or via Wi-Fi

Share recordings on a LAN or via Wi-Fi

If you’ve got more than one Mac in the house and EyeTV 3 is installed on all of them, then you can share EyeTV recordings over your local network. Shared libraries show up in the sidebar, and you can browse and play them in standard or HD resolution.

Superior Picture Quality

EyeTV is the only TV software that supports “Progressive Scan” for excellent picture quality, and it is capable of displaying full resolution HDTV on Macs with Intel Core Duo processors or dual G5 processors. EyeTV also supports closed captions and DVB subtitles as well as Picture-in-Picture (PiP).

Dolby® Digital Sound

EyeTV records and plays Dolby® Digital sound, including 5.1 Surround Sound, where available. EyeTV also supports the digital optical audio output built into newer Macs and passes Dolby® Digital 5.1 sound through to Surround Sound amplifier and speaker systems.

AppleScript Menu

EyeTV now offers an integrated AppleScript menu. Combined with more robust script support, EyeTV gives advanced users even more control and flexibility to create custom applications.

Note: Products sold through this website that do not bear the Apple Brand name are serviced and supported exclusively by their manufacturers in accordance with terms and conditions packaged with the products. Apple's Limited Warranty does not apply to products that are not Apple-branded, even if packaged or sold with Apple products. Please contact the manufacturer directly for technical support and customer service.

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Ratings & Reviews

3.5

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  • Elgato EyeTV Hybrid

    5.0

    This product is awesome!

    Written by LC from Baltimore

    27/03/2009

    I was initially hesitant about buying this, so I wanted to let people know how cool it was. I've hooked up my PS3 to my iMac (2006, 2 GHz, 2 GB ram) and it works amazingly (but only standard-definition). I can play my games with no lag and use my iMac as a TV. But it's even better than that. It picks up local radio stations. It picks up local TV stations without any wires (and I'm sure it will do the cable TV stuff once I hook it up) and I can watch and record full HD-quality TV shows right onto my mac, and then easily edit out commercials and archive them. Basically, if you'd like to watch HDTV, but don't have $400 - $2000 right now to spend on a nice tv, but have a nice mac screen, it's an excellent product …More

    154 of 167 people found this useful

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  • Elgato EyeTV Hybrid

    5.0

    Amazing product!

    Written by PP from BEVERLEY

    6/10/2008

    This unit allows you to watch, record and convert digital tv to other formats, namely Apple TV. The top spec unit also has input for video source, such as a VHS player. I havent't tested the video import feature yet, but it will allow you to put your old tapes onto computer and then onto your Apple TV! Cheaper options are available from £39.95 if you don't need all the bells and whistles. In my opinion - the best TV adapter out there, as long as you are using a good quality, roof mounted antenna. …More

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  • Elgato EyeTV Hybrid

    5.0

    The one star reviews are of a different product

    Written by MP

    3/12/2008

    Hmm, the problem here seems to be that the one star reviews are of the previous version of the Hybrid, the one without the FM Tuner. Whether or not they have a point, they aren't about this new version of the hardware. (Apple, is you cut the wrong reviews out, you can cut this paragraph too)

    I use the Hybrid (the new one) to record Digital TV, and occasionally radio shows, and have found it to be great. I used it to transfer an old VHS video, just the once. It did a decent job, but comparing it to DTV just shows how bad VHS was.

    The EyeTV software is amazing, and works like a dream. I can even (with a little effort) remotely (from my iPhone) tell it to record a show when I'm a little later in the office/pub than I had planned to be.

    As I only used the analogue tuner once for the VHS transfer, so I'm thinking I might have been slightly better off with the Diversity, which has two Digital Tuners. But I'm very happy with the quality of the Hybrid, and the radio recording is handy from time to time.

    One other thing, I use this with a small indoor antenna and it works well in my area. But areas with weaker Freeview signals may well require an outdoor antenna. A good rule of thumb is, if your main TV needs an outdoor ariel, you will your Mac (that should be obvious right?).

    This is my second EyeTV product, I had an older analogue only model a few years ago. I have no hesitation in recommending this, or any Elgato product.     …More

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  • Elgato EyeTV Hybrid

    4.0

    Great product

    Written by TK from Birmingham

    21/11/2009

    I have had a cluttered home desk (it's in the kitchen) for 5 years. TV, satellite tuner, laptop, phone, etc. We recently bought an iMac and EyeTV. EyeTV is great (particularly in HD). We now use our 21.5" iMac as our kitchen TV and have extra space on the desk. Good product, very easy to setup. The only drawback is that you still need the satellite remote to change channels because of the external satellite tuner box. …More

    2 of 2 people found this useful

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  • Elgato EyeTV Hybrid

    5.0

    I love Eye Hybrid TV

    Written by JB from Markle

    25/10/2009

    I purchased the Eye TV Hybrid a week ago. Downloaded the software and the update immediately. Went through the scan for channel process and was watching television over the air using a ten dollar portable antenna from Best Buy.

    Live television is very reliable. I have not tried to hook the tuner up to my satellite television cable but I see no reason why it wouldn't work as well. The picture quality is stunning. I live in NE Indiana and my cheap antenna pulled in eleven channels. Two local HD channels provide the best picture quality I have ever seen. Your reception will depend on your location to local television stations (over the air). I'm using a MacBook Pro13-inch: 2.53GHz with a solid state drive.

    The Eye TV Hybrid works beautifully with the eye TV App. I can watch live television on my iPhone as long as I am in a wifi hot spot. Incredible!     …More

    16 of 16 people found this useful

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  • Elgato EyeTV Hybrid

    1.0

    Hardware not recommended

    Written by DH from WINCHESTER

    22/10/2009

    I bought 1 of these units. It worked fine the first time I used it. The second time I used it, it was dead. So I returned it and bought another one. The exact same thing happened. In short, this hardware, in my experience, needs a lot of work and is prone to failure. I would be very concerned about reliability in the long run based on my experience. The software seems ok, but I had limited opportunity to use it because the hardware (2/2) died very quickly after plugging it in. …More

    16 of 24 people found this useful

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