I personally recommend a Mac Mini with an external hard drive, but that’s just me.
#Eyetv 3 price tv#
If the idea of having a TV in your living room is unappealing, you can use a laptop, although be sure it’s reasonably recent, as the requirements to run the EyeTV HD are a minimum Intel Core® 2 Duo 2.26 GHz or higher CPU with 2 GB of RAM and an open USB 2 port. There is also an IR Blaster port (more on that in a moment) and a mini USB port to connect the EyeTV HD to your Mac.Īs far as “workflow” goes, the EyeTV HD needs to sit in the center of a chain that goes from your Cable/Satellite box to your computer, so it should be noted that in order to use the EyeTV you’ll need to have a computer within reasonable proximity to your TV box. The EyeTV HD is roughly the size of a Mac mini, and has both composite (the Yellow, Red and White as well as S-Video) connectors for Standard Definition sources as well as component (the Red, Green, Blue) connections for HD broadcasts located on the rear of the device. With its ability to record anything you can watch on TV (and any other uncopyprotected video source) The EyeTV HD can provide both you and your family with virtually unlimited “free” content to fill your iOS devices and stream to your Apple TV. The BAD news is, for some reason these digital copies cost nearly as much as the physical DVDs and VHS’s of old. The good news is that with the iTunes store, today’s parents have a huge library of children’s entertainment and edutainment to choose from to fill up their little fanboys and girls’ iPods.
It would have been far better if your parents had a catalog of a thousand different tapes to add a little variety to your life and change up the lame (but catchy) children’s songs that got stuck in your parents’ heads. The problem of course is, that not only did watching the same thing over and over not stimulate YOUR brain, it made your parents want to strangle Elmo. So, how does the EyeTV save its user money? Well, in the “old days” (the days when YOU probably grew up) your parents probably sat you in front of the TV for hours on end, rewinding the same VHS copy of Elmo in Grouchland or some Barney tape to keep you sedated while they silently regretted ever having children.
I will state upfront that I have been a fan of the EyeTV for years, having been a long-time user of their standard definition EyeTV 250, and as you might expect, the Eye TV HD is the High Definition version of the device. Well, as odd as it might sound, as a father of two young Apple geeks I have actually found the biggest money saver of all comes in the form of a $170 device (Hey, sometimes you gotta SPEND money to MAKE money, right?) called the EyeTV HD by el Gato which turns your Mac into a full-featured DVR, capable of exporting its recordings to all manner of Apple devices. Once you, and your family, have committed to the Apple way of life, things can quickly get expensive – you and the wife each need iPhones, each kid needs their own iPod touch so they can watch shows and play games… the Family needs an Apple TV so the kids can watch their favorite shows OVER and OVER and OVER… and then there’s the family iPad. Many of us Apple Fanboys swore our oath of allegiance to Apple in our teens and 20’s, and now that we’re in our 30’s we have begun spawning our own new generation of little Fanboys and Girls. Turn your Mac into a full-featured DVR with EyeTV
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