Reviews for Elgato EyeTV Hybrid

Have had this for a few years now. Great unit! Great software! Easy to record and program content, and easy to save that content and convert to mp4 format. All from the provided software.

As we all know, the cable companies are locking out the ability to back up your saved video footage, as they're dictated to by the copyright police. But with the EyeTV, you are left to your own to do as you wish when it comes to copying. Keep your footage in the EyeTV format or convert it to mp4 format, your choice, as it should be. Enjoy!

6 of 7 people found this useful

I have had EyeTV Hybrid for almost 4 years. Works great. I don't know how some people say it doesn't work. I use it on my iphone 3g network also when not at home. Last week I connected my new 1080p Apple TV to my network and EyeTV wants to work only on the network unless airplay and file sharing are turned off on the Apple TV. I'm still trying to figure that one out.

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I bought my first Mac and used to have a windows media center edition. I was used to watching TV on my computer and taping things for watching later. I was nervous that Eye TV wouldn't match up, especially since there aren't many reviews. I have to say that I have been very pleased with this product and don't miss media center at all. The only negative is having to pay for the TV guide after 1 year. I like being able to edit commercials out of different shows for watching later. Great product!

15 of 17 people found this useful

Not only can this plausibly replace a dedicated dvr, it's great for tv on the go allowing one to watch (and record) over the air (and analog cable) tv in the office, at a hotel room, or wherever ones laptop is. It's amazing how small this tuner really is.

The video quality is as good as the source (for over the air HDTV, meaning awfully good), and there's a lot to like about the product. The biggest knock is that it can't (directly) handle encrypted digital cable (including HDTV), but that's not a flaw of the product at all. Blame the cable companies instead.

72 of 78 people found this useful

I bought my Hybrid a few months ago after reading an article about people canceling their cable and satellite services and switching to online sources exclusively for tv content. My wife and I had been talking about pairing back our cable service at around $70 a month anyway and some of the suggestions that were made in the article seemed to be reasonable (switch to netflix, hulu, and buy shows from Amazon and the Itunes store). Still I worried about live shows. I did some research and saw that for Mac users most people were pointing towards the EyeTV. I bought one along with a cheaper antenna and sure enough after a relatively easy setup process I was getting about 12 channels in full HD. I could watch shows like the Office (NBC), Letterman (CBS), and the simpsons (fox) easily and I could also schedule recordings of this shows. I can get sports in HD too if they are played on the networks. What’s nice is that PBS comes in great as well so I can catch Frontline in HD…or transfer it to my iPod later with the EyeTV (can’t stream when in the subway or on the plane…more or less) I live in a dense urban area so we happen to get a lot of channels via the antenna (all come in digitally). Either way, I am really happy we did it. I haven’t played with an Antenna since I was a kid and I happy to have rediscovered it in the digital broadcast era. Now I am trying to figure out the best way to connect a computer to our LCD TV to work along with Hulu\Netflix\Itunes and probably an extra EyeTV to go with it. I cancelled my cable tv service about 3 or 4 weeks after playing with the EyeTV. It’s definitely a bill I don’t miss…be brave you can do it to!! (70 x 12 months saves me $840 a year)

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