To determine if an Eye TV 310 receiver is capable of receiving DVB-S2 signals, the unit must be connected to a Mac and interrogated via Mac OS X's System Profiler Application. As for EyeTV 310 units sold from the beginning of 2008 by retailers, it was immediately discovered that it was impossible to determine if any of these units could additionally receive DVB-S2 signals just by physically inspecting any such device. However, a relatively unknown fact, (and somewhat unannounced by Elgato), concerning later production Eye TV 310 receivers was that EyeTV 310 units sold via Elgato's online store from the beginning of 2008 were capable of receiving both DVB-S and DVB-S2 signals.
)ĮyeTV models 300 and 310 sold before the end of 2007 were built to receive DVB-S signals ONLY and cannot receive/decode more recently introduced DVB-S2 signals. Transmits data to the computer via a FireWire 400 port.Now discontinued, (but as of mid-September 2009, the EyeTV 310 was still available from Elgato's Online Store, via various 'backdoor/residual' URL's on the company's website. It enables European and UK customers to receive unencrypted Digital Satellite Television, or DVB-S, on a Mac, and includes a Common Interface (CI) for PayTV. Released in June 2004, the EyeTV 310 replaced the EyeTV 300.
While the EyeTV 500 could display an HDTV signal on a G4-based Mac, a G5 or better was required for hi-def recording and advanced DVR/PVR functionality. Unveiled June 29th, 2004 at the Worldwide Developers' Conference ( WWDC) in San Francisco.The EyeTV 500 was identical to the EyeTV 200 in most respects, but featured ATSC HDTV capability instead of the 200's standard-definition NTSC.
Among its many accolades, on December 13th, 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, aka PVR. 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. Transmits data to the computer via a FireWire 400 port. 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. EyeTV 300įor free-to-air digital satellite television, or DVB-S, in the European/UK market, released in November 2003. 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 (same-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 paperback-book in size, 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 29th at the 2002 Macworld Expo in New York.
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