Unveiled Jat the Worldwide Developers' Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco. Among its many accolades, on December 13, 2004, the EyeTV 200 won Macworld's Editors' Choice Award for Hardware of the Year. The EyeTV 200 also featured a new, trade-size silver housing with a red IR lens on the front for the included remote. ( digital video recording) capabilities, a.k.a. In addition, the EyeTV 200 possessed much-expanded D.V.R. Whereas the original EyeTV used a 12 Mbit/s USB 1.1-connection and was thus limited to MPEG-1 only, the EyeTV 200 featured the much higher bandwidth of 400 Mbit/s FireWire, and could easily support recording to DVD-quality MPEG-2. Unveiled Januat the Macworld Expo, San Francisco. EyeTV 200 - FireWire D.V.R.Įlgato's second-generation EyeTV product.
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Transmits data to the computer via a FireWire 400 port.
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Released in November 2003, EyeTV 400 enabled European and UK Mac users to watch and record unencrypted Digital Terrestrial Television, or DVB-T on a Mac. And because virtually any recent (G3 or better) Mac could process the MPEG-1 format without difficulty,even the EyeTV's lesser-quality capabilities worked in its favor.
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The EyeTV's (identically-named) software was easy to use and configure, letting users choose different recording settings, and different viewable-TV window sizes, including full-screen.
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It was also the first Mac-based TV tuner to partner with TitanTV, a free online TV-programming guide, to permit the scheduled recording of upcoming TV shows. While it could only record in the lesser-quality MPEG-1 format, the EyeTV was the first Macintosh-based TV tuner to offer the highly-coveted TiVo-like ability to 'pause and replay' live TV. Made of white plastic and roughly the size of a paperback book, the $199 device was USB 1.1-based and had an analog NTSC TV tuner. Products Hardware EyeTV Models, Past To Present 1st EyeTV (aka EyeTV USB)Įlgato's first EyeTV product was unveiled on September 29 at the 2002 Macworld Expo in New York.