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I got it from Magnummac in newton road. Last time I was in there, I think they still had one in stock. When I asked them about whether it could do analog tv, they said no. They didn't know what the box they were selling, does.

I'm running in on standard analog tv, the old kind we've had for 30 years.

As far as I can see there's no integration with the apple remote, or front row.

Or here:
http://www.totallymac.com/nz/detail.lasso?product=AESEYETVHYBRID

Daniel
Totally Mac

Hi

I've just bought the Elgato Eyetv Hybrid and am trying to connect it to my sky decoder... Not having much luck. Do you know how to do this? Do I need to find an "AV" channel on the Mac and then use the sky remote to flick through the channels? Any advise would be great.

in the eyetv software go to the controls menu and select composite video input near the bottom - this is the AV channel.

make sure your sky decoder is connected to the eyetv using the yellow/white/red composite cable

flan wrote:
Hi

I've just bought the Elgato Eyetv Hybrid and am trying to connect it to my sky decoder... Not having much luck. Do you know how to do this? Do I need to find an "AV" channel on the Mac and then use the sky remote to flick through the channels? Any advise would be great.

This thread might be useful for you too... http://www.nzmac.com/forum/macs-and-peripherals/14354-reeye-tv-&-sky-digital.html#14354. Yes you have to use the Sky remote to flick through the channels.

I use the haupauge hvr-900, works brilliantly. As for dvb-t here in NZ, your basically screwed. SD and HD are using H.264 and a pretty modern profile at that. Eye Tv Does not yet support H.264. Also, the AAC audio standard being adopted here is cutting edge stuff, and there is very little support for it even in Linux and Windows.
What you can do is setup an 'IR' blaster, from your computer to the sky box. This will 'imitate' the sky remote and allow you to change channels from the computer.
http://www.geekzone.co.nz/Fossie/4313 That is an HD sample from the dvb-t trial, it was only able to display stills.
SD doesn't even display a picture.

Hello all,

I'll be testing the TubeStick DVB-T USB receiver from http://www.equinux.com in the next weeks (have to get it first by snail-mail). I'm beta testing it for NZ. I'll let you know if it works. If so I'll also let you know whaere you can get the stick. If we're lucky it's less than NZ$100 including software.

Cheers Oliver

This email was from Elgato in first week of March. Not looking hopeful for DVB-T launch in May, but may not be far off.


Thank you for contacting Elgato Systems.

We are working on getting MPEG4 H.264 DVB-T support for EyeTV, but currently, it looks like it will be a lot of work. This problem is due to the fact that each country is using a slightly different MPEG4 H.264 format (a couple already work with EyeTV, but most do not), and that there no existing codec for us to adapt for this, and we are having to write it ourselves. Beyond that, I don't have any official information.

Have you tried tuning to the current test frequencies with EyeTV? What are the results currently?

In the near future, we might start collecting transponder data from NZ for engineering to study, but I haven't heard any requests along those lines yet. The current priority is Norway, since their H.264 rollout was a few days ago.

At some point, would you be able to run a transponder dump from EyeTV (possibly from a special build) and upload dump files to our FTP server? These files are typically around 500MB in size, so naturally that would depend somewhat upon your internet connection type. But if you can, that would be a big help in allowing us to support the NZ MPEG4 broadcasts.

Look forward to hearing if Equinux software supports the NZ MPEG4 H.264 codec

Just saw this,
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/15645

Check the "what's new" part.

I have an EyeTV Hybrid and I'm running EyeTV 3.0.2.

I can confirm that it is now working fine with Freeview HD (digital terrestrial). In Wellington (specifically at points with good reception in Avalon and Miramar, using a good UHF antenna) I was able to get a total of 17 channels on Freeview, of which about five were unused. A total of three transport streams at each location (from different transmitters).

With version 3.0.1 of the software, only progressive scan channels (TV1 and TV2) worked. Interlaced channels crashed the software.

Version 3.0.2, I can also watch TV3 (1080i), and all the standard definition channels (576i).

The full list: TV ONE, TV2, TV3, C4, Maori Television, TVNZ 6, TVNZ 7, TVNZ SPORT EXTRA, Parliament TV, tvCentral, Radio NZ National, Radio NZ Concert, Freeview | HD and four reserved channels.