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It was a great show and as the closing credits roll I realize I'd like to save it and let my wife see it. in the picture below I have been watching The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. That's nice but the buffer allows something even nicer - you can record a show from the beginning even if you don't decide you want to record it until the end. That's sweet but the second way is even sweeter: EyeTV maintains a live TV buffer so you can pause live TV anytime you like. As soon as you do, EyeTV starts recording the show currently on-screen. To do so you'd click the red dot on the on-screen remote control or press the red button on the wireless remote. The first way is to start recording manually. Now let's look at some of the ways to record shows. Speaking of changing channels, you can do it with your choice of either the on-screen remote shown above or the wireless remote shown in Figure 3.įigure 3: The full-featured remote control included with EyeTV 250 plus. in picture above) appears for a few seconds after you change the channels. The semi-transparent overlay (59, CMDY-E, Daily Show With Jon Stewart, etc.

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You do it in your choice of a window of any size (as shown in Figure 2) or full screen (not shown but also quite nice).įigure 2: Watching TV in a window (left) and on-screen remote control (right). Let's start by looking at something simple: watching TV.

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Just install the excellent EyeTV software and in a few minutes you'll be watching, recording, and converting TV programming on your Mac.

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The EyeTV 250 plus itself is a tiny USB device you connect to your Mac and a cable TV or antenna cable as shown in Figure 1.įigure 1: The EyeTV 250 plus hardware, shown here in front of an iPhone, iPod, and Apple TV to provide a sense of scale, is not much bigger than a deck of playing cards. The Elgato EyeTV 250 plus not only resolved both of those problems elegantly, it's made watching television a more viable and pleasant experience.

I don't have room in my office for a TV so I can only watch television- live or recorded - in the den or bedroom.

So there is no easy way for me to get recorded shows into iTunes so I can watch them on my Mac, Apple TV, iPod, or iPhone.

I use a generic TimeWarner Cable DVR (because am too cheap to buy a TiVO box).

My two biggest TV-related issues prior to the EyeTV 250 plus were: I also have a penchant for HBO, which shows movies, specials and series I enjoy, such as Entourage, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Real Time with Bill Maher to name a few. I'm not a huge TV watcher but there are a handful of (mostly cable) TV shows that I like to watch, including (but not limited to) The Family Guy, and Criss Angel: Mindfreak. Before I tell you about it, though, here's a little background on my viewing habits pre-EyeTV 250 plus: This column is my opinion of my new Elgato EyeTV 250 plus, an analog/digital TV receiver and video converter that lets me watch, record, and convert TV shows among various file formats on my Mac.