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| Elgato EyeTV Hybrid (NTSC) | 
| Brand: Elgato
Category: CE
List Price: $230.13
Buy New: $112.99
You Save: $117.14 (51%)
Buy New/Used/Refurbished from $69.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  (108 reviews)
Media: Electronics
Memorabilia: No
Warranty: 1 year warranty
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 1.3 x 0.5 x 3.5
MPN: 10020415
Model: 10020415
UPC: 852095000645
EAN: 0852095000645
ASIN: B000HNJ6U0
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Box Content - EyeTV 3 digital TV recorder software(CD-ROM), EyeTV Hybrid analog/digital TV receiver, USB ext cable, Break out cable for Composite, S- Video & Audio connections, Quick Start Guide | | • | Watch and timeshift live television on your Mac. Record and subscribe to TV series. Edit recordings and enjoy them on your iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV | | • | Receive over-the-air HDTV and analog TV. Rewind, fast forward, and pause digital TV | | • | Browse EyeTV menus in Full Screen mode | | • | Record hours of your favorite TV shows directly on your hard drive and edit out unwanted content |
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Product Description
This El Gato EyeTV Hybrid Analog and Digital TV Tuner for Macintosh has been Factory-Refurbished to perform as new. It includes a 6 month warranty.
EyeTV Hybrid is a highly acclaimed TV tuner for the Mac. It's ideal for anyone who wants the flexibility of a free over-the-air HDTV and analog solution together in one small USB stick. EyeTV Hybrid does the work of two EyeTV hardware products for the price of one. It delivers stunning quality free-to-air digital HDTV (ATSC) to your Mac as well as conventional analog TV via standard cable or antenna.
EyeTV Hybrid records digital TV in one quality setting, Lossless. The digital stream is recorded unaltered for full quality digital content as encoded by the broadcaster. EyeTV also supports closed captioning and Dolby Digital sound. With its classic matte aluminum finish and surprisingly small size for such a versatile product, the EyeTV Hybrid is a perfect complement to the Mac. It features a USB 2.0 interface for the streaming of superior quality, uncompressed TV content to your Mac. EyeTV Hybrid is USB powered and therefore requires no external power supply, and contains a full-size coaxial plug. Includes Software and Installation instructions
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| Customer Reviews: Read 103 more reviews...
 Buy this and not the Pinnacle TV tuner stick! January 5, 2009
This item was a great buy! If you're looking at buying the Pinnnacle TV tuner for Mac, make a better investment and buy the Elgato EyeTV. Pinnacle tuner comes with EyeTV Lite, the Elgato tuner comes with EyeTV hybrid. The USB extention cable is great if you want to tuck away the tuner stick or just don't want it sticking out the back of your desktop. The software has a cable or satellite sytle program guide that makes finding your favorite show on any channel simple and only one click away. Recording a show or a series is also be done with a click or two. Another cool feature, you can use the mini remote that comes with your iMac. The Elgato EyeTV tuner is an over all great product and very user friendly.
 You should note this is the older model... December 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was excited to see the price of this, but there is NO hint whatsoever that this is the 2007 edition besides that fact that there is a date for when the product was first listed. There is a newer one than this which has better Clear QAM support and is the 2008 edition, but other than that this product is still great. I haven't A/Bed products to compare quality or features but this is definitely what I needed.
I use it to watch HDTV on my 22" computer monitor, and it's not even and HD LCD but still looks great. Would be cool if I had dual monitors. Good for someone who doesn't watch too much TV and is always using a computer or wants to set up a computer as their "media center". I also live in a studio so my computer is in the same room that I sleep in, easy to lay down and put on something to watch on my computer. I also used to to record old 8mm tapes from my camcorder. Works great but the cable on that comes with the EyeTV Hybrid is a female, and so is the camcorder, therefore you DO need you own male to male RCA if you are not using and Svideo cable (which a lot of old 8mm/hi8 camcorders do not have). And since the camcorder is mono out and the cable is L/R you'll have to set your audio in your video editing program to be mono so it doesn't come out on just the right side. I could've probably gotten a mono to stereo L/R cable but it did fine for me.
I either didn't to all of my research or Elgato just fluffs up the features and makes it sound amazing, when in fact it's pretty basic. It does the job and EyeTV is cool, but the menus aren't very intuitive, and neither is the remote since there are 4 colored and unlabeled buttons and I still forget which is which. The remote is very unresponsive when you are only a couple feet back and not in the direct line of sight of the Hybrid device.
All in all, probably the best out there for what it does, seems like a lot of people are satisfied with it, especially for $100. But there's a new 2008 edition that Amazon does not mention, the remote is lame and unresponsive, the editing features on EyeTV are horrible. If you need it to record from an external source, definitely cool, but if thats ALL you need, I'd rather go for a Canopus ADVC.
Great Product For the Price December 6, 2008
I am very pleased with my purchase of the Elgato EyeTV Hybrid. I liked everything about it. It's extremely easy to set up and record. I've never used another type of product like this so I can't really compare. That being said, all the other versions that work with macs seemed to be more expensive.
The only thing that I had a problem with is the editing aspect of the software. It's very awkward and hard to use. However, you can export the video files to be used in various editing programs so it doesn't really matter that the EyeTV editing sucks.
Great Product September 9, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This product does everything I would was expecting and hoping for. Since owning it, I have stopped using a DVD recorder. Clearly, it does not have the automatic "find similar shows" that is included in Tivo, but the advantages outweigh this loss:
1) near limitless recording capacity - constrained only by capacity of hard discs you wish to hook up
2) very easy to jump/scroll/scrub through recordings to find a particular part.
A bonus I was not expecting was the ability to transfer my old copy protected VHS tapes to the Mac (for subsequent transfer to iPod or DVD) with ease and at pretty good quality.
 Beware!!! August 18, 2008
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
Bought it to use on my macbook pro, didn't really use it that much. After 14 months I had an error that it was connected to USB 1 (which it obviously wasn't). Further investigation & emails to elgato reveal that the unit has failed & as it is more than 12 months old..... tough. I'd be very wary before spending money on this company's inferior products
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