“That’s plausible, and depending upon your boob tube ingestion requirements, perhaps affordable. But I don’t like paying for my content again and again,” Brannan reports. “So, how does a Mac user get free TV on a Mac?”
Brannan reports, “Elgato’s EyeTV. I know. EyeTV isn’t free. But remember, if you can’t be with the one you love, love the one you’re with… It’s the classy, Mac-like software that controls television—scheduled recordings, pause, live, fast forward, rewind. It even converts television recordings for your iPhone or iPod.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
hulu works
and a myriad of others…
Mac360 was great when Tera was there.
Speaking of boob tubes, I’d like to see her (Bambi) in one! Check out her photo at Twitter.
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hulu and the others like fancast et al. will soon be paid viewing because Rupert Murdoch hates giving anything for free.
I like my El Gato Hybrid. It offers DVRing and the tuner is terrific. I can even snag free HD programming using an OTA antenna.
El Gato’s iPhone/Touch app gives me even greater control by providing me TV Guide access from which I can scan programming and record with the touch of my Touch. The EyeTV software also streams live television to my Touch.
Don’t forget Boxee and Plex..
Tera’s Mac360 friends are still there. They miss her, too.
No matter what gods Apple’s fans pray to, Steve is extremely unlikely to wave his magic wand and turn the Apple TV into a TiVo.
Except that the EyeTV won’t record the vast majority of digital cable channels.
Not their fault — just the way the cable companies have it set up.
The software is beautiful and so well thought-out. The hardware works perfectly. I love my EyeTV, but it doesn’t get much use, since everything I want to record seems to be on a digital channel.
Sorry. I meant encrypted channel.
Ninjavideo.net
Bit torrent
Youtube.
“EyeTV isn’t free”.
Duh, neither is your Mac, printer, router, backup HDD etc…
Buy the hardware you need to do the jobs you want done- In this case EyeTV fits the bill- Then you have free tv.
TivoToGo and Turner Classic Movies – works for me.
@ Quad Core.
Do you use little snitch? ever had any strange connection attempts from their little helper app?
Thanks for the link!
I don’t really watch television. I’m not being smug, I’m just sayin’.
However, I have Netflix and a Roku box and a PS3, so I can stream a whole mess of stuff to my Mac or my television. They even have the entire run of Monty Python’s Flying Circus and the first three seasons of Dexter, which my wife discovered and is now eerily addicted to. I worry about that. I really do.
I have an ElGato EyeTV hybrid. It works great. I wish my cable company broadcast more digital channels unencrypted, but them’s the breaks.
TV is toxic garbage. All of it.
Maybe that’s why it’s not an Apple thing?
The US Cable industry has tried all it can do to kill CableCard and if they would license it to ElGato, all would be well with the universe.
You can view the encrypted video on your Mac by running it out of the converter box and then through your EyeTV. My old 200 does this fine.
You can also do it with Firewire (as I’m sure many of you know)
Try here
http://project-tigershark.com/people/rob/blog/2007/01/14/cable-tv-mac-firewire-hd-pvr
CableCard
Not sure what you mean.
Have you tried to buy a TV with CableCard lately?
Tera was the greatest Mac journalist I’ve yet seen- had credibility and integrity, as well as being an incredible writer in general. Her loss is still painful to me, and I didn’t know her.
i’ve used elgato’s eyetv for the last 7 years
AMAZING
10/10
apple should buy them