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EyeTV expands to EyeHome

Elgato Systems, makers of EyeTV, a sort of USB hardware and software TiVo/SnapStream for the mac platform has released a bunch of new products for this week of MacWorld and the Consumer Electronics Show (CES).

EyeHome is a new magic box that streams photos, music, video, and movies from your mac to your TV. I only does MPEG and DivX, so quicktime or raw DV output from iMovie won't work. It comes with a remote and all the standard home theater hookups, and looks like it has all the features most other media centers have, except it uses Apple's rendezvous network protocol to share media files from macs.

Their EyeTV line looks like it has expanded with a model for regular tv, one for digital satellite, one for HDTV over the air broadcasts, and all sporting firewire interfaces and the ability to dump recordings to DVD. The HDTV one looks the most interesting, I'd love to know what kind of storage and processor is required to record much hi-def content.

by Matt Haughey January 6, 2004 in News

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