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EyeTV products lets you watch, record, edit, timeshift and archive TV on your Mac. With solutions for analog and digital television, and video quality options to meet differing customer needs, Elgato has an EyeTV to fit your Mac.
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WHAT'S NEW
Version 3.0.2:

  • Full Support for H.264 Broadcasts
    EyeTV now fully supports digital television H.264 broadcasts in standard TV and HDTV resolutions. More and more countries are adopting the H.264 video compression standard for digital television. H.264 provides excellent picture quality at lower data rates than MPEG-2, thus reducing the amount of bandwidth required per channel. The end result is that television stations can broadcast more channels, while using the same number of transmitters.
  • Several countries' over-the-air DVB-T broadcasts exclusively use the H.264 format:
    In Norway, both the free and Pay TV (RiksTV) services use H.264.
    New Zealand's Freeview|HDTM service also uses H.264.
    Many other countries broadcast H.264 HDTV test transmissions in certain areas. H.264 broadcasts are also available in many digital cable systems and via satellite (DVB-S2). All EyeTV 310 digital satellite tuners shipped since November 2007 are capable of receiving DVB-S2.
  • Closed Captions Support in QuickTime Format Exports (North America only)
    EyeTV now supports the exporting of ATSC/NTSC Closed Captions for use on iPhone, iPod, and Apple TV. The Closed Captions are also supported for playback in QuickTime and iTunes.
    When an ATSC/NTSC EyeTV recording with Closed Captions is exported from within EyeTV, EyeTV automatically creates a Closed Captions text track. The Closed Captions will be played back on the iPhone, iPod and Apple TV if Closed Captions have been enabled on the device. Turn on "Show Closed Captioning" in QuickTime Player, or the appropriate "Show Closed Captions When Available" preference on the iPod/iPhone/Apple TV or in iTunes.
    EyeTV will export the last Closed Caption track used in EyeTV. For example, if CC3 captions are used, they will be converted to CC1 captions upon export. Only one Closed Captions track is supported.
    It is recommended to have the latest software and firmware updates for QuickTime, iTunes, iPhone, iPod and Apple TV as older versions did not support Closed Captions.
  • tvtv Sweden
    Sweden has been added to the list of countries available for use with the tvtv electronic programming guide (EPG). When Sweden is selected as a country, the EPG will automatically be set to tvtv - UK.
  • Separate Deinterlacing Options for Standard TV and HDTV
    EyeTV now has separate deinterlacing options for Standard TV and HDTV. For Standard TV on Intel Core Duo Macs, the default is Progressive Scan. For HDTV, the default is Always. To change deinterlacing, open the Display pane in the EyeTV Preferences.
    The deinterlacing options can also be changed by using the On Screen Menu. This can be accessed by navigating to More>Settings>Display Options>Deinterlace in the On Screen Menu.
  • Improved On Screen Menus
    The text used in the On Screen Menus has been updated for improved readability. Errors and messaging have also been improved to help users troubleshoot problems.
    The On Screen Menu now has an Audio item that can be used to select a specific track on recordings with multiple audio tracks.
    Closed Captions (CC), HD, and Stereo Icons are now displayed in the Details screen of the On Screen Menu.
  • Unplayed Recordings Badge
    EyeTV now displays a badge over the thumbnail of recordings that have not yet been viewed.
  • Hardware Support
    Support has been added for the TerraTec Cinergy T USB XXS.
    Support has been added for the Digital Everywhere line of FireWire tuner products (FireDTV C/CI, T/CI, and S2). Please contact Digital Everywhere for a firmware update.
  • EyeTV 310 firmware has been updated to work with the Netherlands Pay TV provider "Canal Digitaal".

    Bugfixes:

    • The overall stability and reliability of EyeTV has been improved.
    • EyeTV 3.0.2 now automatically updates the built-in EyeConnect server. If you are using EyeTV 3's shared archive feature, this requires updating to EyeTV 3.0.2 on all computers.
    • A problem that caused MPEG Program Stream exports to be corrupted has been resolved.
    • A problem where Smart Guides would not update if two Smart Guides used the same criteria for "Any field" has been resolved.
    • A problem which caused the Smart Guide searches to be 1 hour off has been resolved.
    • A problem where edited MPEG-4 EyeTV recordings would not play back over markers has been resolved.
    • Numerous improvements to resolve problems while running EyeTV from a non-admin user account.
    • Problems which would cause the EPG to not be updated on a Standard User Account have been resolved.
    • The RAM Cache in EyeTV is now limited to 1.5GB.
    • The channel sorting for European channels has been improved.
    • A problem that would cause the Turbo progress bar in EyeTV to use a large amount of CPU when exporting has been resolved.
    • EyeTV now correctly auto-tunes both UHF and VHF channels in New Zealand.
    • EyeTV now automatically starts and stops the EyeConnect server when the location of the EyeTV archive has changed.
    • Resolved a problem with shared recordings not appearing.
    • A problem which caused SECAM D/K analog signals to lose audio has been resolved.
    • DVB subtitles no longer display over the editor and On Screen Menus.
    • Improved parsing of the XMLTV data. Errors are now logged to the Console when XMLTV files can not be parsed. Successful parsing of the XMLTV data is also now logged to the Console.
    • Several problems with EyeTV's auto update feature have been fixed so that downloads are now more reliable.
    Full release notes available.
REQUIREMENTS
EyeTV is a Universal application. It requires a Macintosh computer with PowerPC G4 (500MHz or faster), PowerPC G5 or Intel Core processor, and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or later. We recommend Mac OS X 10.5 with all software and security updates installed.
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Developer:Elgato Systems
Downloads:101,955
  - Version d/l:2,278
Multimedia & Design:Video
License:Updater
Date:08 May 2008
Platform:PPC/Intel
Price:$39.95
RATING
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EyeTV User Reviews (151 posts)Write A Review
Mar 20 2008

DRDUL  The one thing that's been driving me nuts with EyeTV 3.0.1 is the constant prompts to authenticate as an administrator (I run EyeTV from a standard account, as I do with all apps).

I tried changing permissions on the com.elgato.* prefs files, and on a few other files I found in the Application Support folder, but with no luck. I contacted Elgato's tech support, and received the following answer:

Thank you for contacting Elgato Systems.

We are aware of a problem with non-admin accounts and EyeTV 3.0.1. There is a problem with saving a setting to our global preference when quitting out of EyeTV. Hopefully our Engineers will fix the problem soon.

Some of my customers have been able to click Cancel and bypass the admin password entry. Another changed permissions for ~/Library/Preferences so the non-admin accounts had Read/Write permissions.  (Version 3.0.1)

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Mar 18 2008

BLUEPOLO  On the whole I do like EyeTV, but I have doubts about why it phones home to 194.110.194.1 and www.stuffware.co.uk.

It pings 194.110.194.1 ever 15 seconds, so my firewall logs are full of it.

What gives?  (Version 3.0.1)

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Mar 16 2008
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SCHMELDING  A big improvement over the 2.0 version, especially with the UI. That said, it crashes every time we try to delete a recording.

One feature that would be nice to see added is a prompt to delete a recording once we have finished viewing it (a la Tivo). (Maybe make it a preference-switchable feature?)  (Version 3.0.1)

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Feb 22 2008

BROWN2HORNET  http://www.elgato.com/elgato/int/mainmenu/support/Update-Start/Update-EyeTV-3.en.html  (Version 3.0.1)

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