Comments on: EyeTV Releases Placeshifting iPhone App

By: LordBeezzer

LordBeezzer — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:28:32 +0000

Live Tv works over 3G with (Unrestrictor) for us jailbreak folk.
The use of turbo 264 HD is cool but there is a lot of buffering. The instructions say you need a core 2 duo mac.
My mac mini is only a core duo not a core 2 duo. It still works but I’m thinking maybe this is the reason for the excessive buffering. I also have a slingbox and the slingmobile app for my iphone 3GS. The picture quality on the eyetv seems slightly better then the slingbox but the slingbox doesn’t continuously buffer like the eyetv setup does but the eyetv setup gives me the ability to remotely set recordings, watch my eyetv recordings and with my RF transmitter, change channels on my cable box to watch some Ok live tv, if you don’t mind the buffering.
The eyetv recorded video plays clear with almost no buffering.
All said, this is a pretty good app.

By: MarcoPolo

MarcoPolo — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 07:52:42 +0000

This has nothing to do with Apple. Elgato’s EyeTV has been the best solution for DVR on an Apple machine for ages, and just keeps getting better. This iPhone app is something I’ve been looking forward to for ages.

My Mac Mini is a full-time HTPC and EyetV integrates with Front Row through the wonderful pyetv script – but only through Leopard, not Snow Leopard. I had to roll back the OS, but it all works seamlessly now, and the ability to control remotely through this app is simply icing on a very tall cake…

By: ZeoTiVo

ZeoTiVo — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:29:36 +0000

I have alwasys said Apple has a great business model in selling shows to folks via iTunes. DVR is just a second thought for Apple – it just happens that their second thoughts are not bad – but then also not great.

By: Geoffrey Sperl

Geoffrey Sperl — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:49:38 +0000

Well, no live TV over anything but wifi. HD content seems to be giving me only audio over 3 G. It’s a start, though.

By: Geoffrey Sperl

Geoffrey Sperl — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:40:25 +0000

They now have “Smart Guides” for recording a series, and you can further tweak it just to record new shows. That, coupled with the TV Guide integration, has done a good job at recording regular series for me.

It does stil have a problem with “Wolfman Mac’s Chiller Drive-In,” but I think it’s the local station the show airs on that’s the problem, not EyeTV.

I’ve been playing with the iPhone app this evening and I’m impressed thus far. I really like the fact that it takes advantage of the Turbo.264 hardware and that you can run live TV through the app. It is a touch slow over my 802.11g network, so I’ll be curious to see how slow it is over 3G tomorrow.

By: Brent

Brent — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:36:20 +0000

Nice HTPC feature. I hope to see something similar for Media Center and SageTV as well. I’m not holding my breath, but would love the functionality.

By: Ben Drawbaugh

Ben Drawbaugh — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:40:49 +0000

My problem was the series recording options, or lack there of.

By: Geoffrey Sperl

Geoffrey Sperl — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:36:56 +0000

Ben: I would suggest trying it out again. I find EyeTV’s search abilities to be even stronger than TiVo’s if you have the patience to learn how it works.

I, personally, have been using EyeTV for a year (after dumping Comcast for TV) with two tuners and in conjunction with iTunes purchases and I’ve been very happy with it as a DVR. But, as I said above, it took me a while to learn how the search worked.