The installation is simple, easy, and very intuitive. The Quick Start Guide is very clear and useful. The Setup Assistant will guide you and when you finish, you're ready to watch TV. It's that simple. EyeTV digitally records your favorite TV shows on your Mac's hard drive for immediate or later viewing. You can program your favorite shows once, daily, or weekly. That's right, Mac doesn't get many invites to the convergence party, but Elgato Systems has made him feel right at home.
Home Is Where the Hub Is The EyeHome allows you to view all of the movies, music, and photos stored on your Mac and use your computer's Internet connection to surf the Web in your living room.
There are three setup options: If your Mac s is already connected to an Ethernet hub or switch, you can run a standard Ethernet cable from the switch to the EyeHome box; you can connect one Mac directly to the EyeHome box with a crossover Ethernet cable; or you can use an Setup is detailed on a postcard-sized QuickStart Guide that comes in the box. It took only moments to load the EyeHome software on the PowerBook. Important setup note: If your network is firewall-enabled as it should be , you need to go into your Mac's system preferences and configure a custom port that allows the EyeHome and Mac to communicate.
This wasn't detailed in the QuickStart Guide that came with my review sample it was buried in the manual's troubleshooting section ; however, at press time, Elgato had announced plans to release a new EyeHome box in which this important setup info is more-clearly emphasized current EyeHome owners can download the new guide from the company's Website.
Upon powering up the EyeHome with the remote, you're taken to a "Connect" menu that lists all of the Macs it sees on the network; you simply highlight the one whose content you want and hit the OK button, and you're taken to a menu in which your digital content has been neatly organized into five categories: EyeTV more on this in a moment , movies, music, pictures, and services Web portals.
The EyeHome reads whatever is stored in your Mac's music, movie, and photo libraries. If you use programs like iTunes and iPhoto to import and store all of your media, then this content will be awaiting you in the EyeHome menu.
If you want to access content that isn't in these folders, you can move it or just an alias of it to these folders. The EyeHome lets you browse your music in the same manner that you organized it in iTunes—by genre, album, artist, or the complete library. The random and play-all commands work in a specific folder or with the entire library.
It would take a heck of a lot of CDs to hold my entire legally ripped music collection, so having direct access to the content on my Mac's hard drive was extremely convenient. Plus, whenever I added new content to the Mac, it showed up immediately on the EyeHome box. Likewise with my photos. Snapshots from the EyeTV Viewer Window If you want to capture a snapshot of the current frame of video, you can press z-C, which will save the picture to the clipboard.
The Controller enables you to fully manage your TV viewing experience. You can use the Controller while watching either live or pre-recorded programs. The picture and table on the next page describes the function of each of the buttons on the Controller.
In the case of live television, EyeTV keeps recording the live feed onto your disk. The pause time remaining for your now timeshifted show depends on the free space available on your disk.
Program Guide - Clicking this button launches your default web browser and brings up the TitanTV or tvtv web site so you can view TV program listings and schedule shows for recording. Each time you record something or you schedule something to be recorded using EyeTV, a new entry will be added to the list in the EyeTV Programs window.
Page Stored Recordings EyeTV Manual Once a scheduled program has actually been recorded, its shaded color will change from pink to blue. Stored Recordings Programs that have been previously recorded are called Stored Recordings.
This button launches your default browser and brings up the TitanTV or tvtv web site. Automatic wake up occurs two minutes before the scheduled recording starts, in order to allow your Mac time to wake up. For example, with the two minutes of default padding, EyeTV will launch four minutes before the scheduled time. Or, press the grey button in the top right hand corner of the video window.
Page Visual Editor Drawer When the editor is visible the right and left arrow keys can be used to navigate between thumbnails. When the editor is closed, and EyeTV is playing over a clip marked for deletion, the right arrow skips playback to the end of the clip. The marked clips will not be exported, but will remain in the EyeTV recording archive. Examples of Using the Visual Editor Use the editing tools to mark a clip so it is highlighted in yellow, and then choose Save Clip as Recording from the File menu.
Choose Export Clip from the File menu and save the first chunk. Page Titantv Sections More about this is in the next few sections.
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