It's this scheduling which is Elgato's unique strength. You get a year's subscription to an online electronic programme guide that features programme details for roughly the next fortnight, and you can schedule recordings manually either from your Mac or by visiting the tvtv website on any computer or mobile phone.īest of all, though, is that you can schedule repeat recordings based on either the usual rules or by defining Smart Guides. With these, you can tell the system to record based on certain criteria: every programme that has 'Doctor Who' in the title except those on BBC Three, for example. If only Elgato could implement a Tivo-like recommendation engine too.
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Most of the EyeTV range consists of conventional TV tuners such as the recently reviewed EyeTV DTT and EyeTV Deluxe that allow you to watch and record terrestrial TV channels, either analogue or digital, on your computer.
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Recordings can be exported to iTunes, converted for portable devices such as the iPod, and passed to Roxio Toast (£70, to be burned onto DVD.
I've owned two EyeTV systems: the original analogue USB one and the DTT 410 FireWire version. In essence, Elgato has taken everything that's great about the original EyeTV DTT, made it smaller, and slapped on a £20 premium. The USB box was fine, but the picture quality was limited by the USB cable.
I upgraded to the firewire version and of course there was a big improvement. And that would be fine, if the implication wasn't that you could use this without having to tether yourself to a ruddy great aerial. In our testing, we couldn't get a signal using either of the supplied mini aerials, and while we don't doubt that you would receive TV in areas with a very strong signal, we had to plug it into a roof-mounted aerial before we could tune it in.
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