Though in reality I have to delete the watched shows from iTunes manually. When she finishes watching a show, she holds the center remote button and "marks as watched", making the show disappear from the on-screen "unwatched" list. She can sort the shows on Apple TV so that she only sees "unwatched" shows (they have a little blue dot next to them). My wife likes this because it is similar to a DVR setup. Once it is in iTunes, I just use Home Sharing to watch the shows on Apple TV. ![]() This takes a while for my MBP to transcode the 4-10 GB eyetv files to 1-2 GB iTunes files, but we usually watch the content a day late anyway. (Great!) EyeTV auto-exports the shows to iTunes. Once the shows are in EyeTV, I use one of two options to watch them on my Apple TV 2:ġ. ![]() ![]() (I live in L.A., and get great reception of lots of channels. I have a similar setup: Antenna on the roof -> HDHomerun -> EyeTV on Macbook Pro. Total invested: EyeTV3 ($80), 950Q ($70), EyeTV iOS ($5) = $155įeatures: Recording of HD shows, Streaming of recorded shows via 3G and Wifi, Playback of recorded shows via AppleTV and iTunes sync to iPad/iPhone, live TV via 3G and locally on AppleTV via Airplay.Īnyone else have a similar setup they enjoy? Any feedback for me on what I can do/add to improve my setup? The only part I don't like is the fact that you cannot open the guide and keep the current channel playing in the background. Changing channels is fairly smooth and speedy. Instant access to all my live channels with the ability to pause and rewind. But, using the iOS app, I can pull up any live program and AirPlay it to the AppleTVs. The AppleTV plays back my recorded shows like a DVR from iTunes home sharing, so no issues there. The 3G was good quality (Netflix-ish) which the WiFi was fantastic quality on my iPad. I tested and verified that streaming worked 3G and WiFi. Next I downloaded the EyeTV universal iOS app for live streaming (WiFi and 3G) to my iPhone/iPad. I then turned on iPhone sharing in the App. This was all automatic and in the EyeTV app. Using the EyeTV software, I setup a series of scheduled recordings, and set these to encode an iPhone version and to create an AppleTV version and export into iTunes. I tuned the ClearQAM channels which include my locals in HD, HGTV HD, A&E HD, Palladia HD, Sun Sports SD, and Universal Sports SD. The EyeTV software and tuner are running in the office on the iMac. As long as you are ok with giving up ESPN HD this setup will work very good. The short answer is Yes, and it works quite well. What I wanted to do is see if I could make a pay TV replacement (DirecTV with HD DVR) using the above. I appreciate it.I just finished my complete setup and I wanted to share it since its working so well. ![]() Basically, what is the best way and the most affordable way of watching cable over the internet. Would it better to just set up a slingbox at my parent's home and use that to watch TV in my apartment? I don't even know if that is possible but I wanted to find out. How do you actually get the TV signals? Do you have to have it set up with a preexisting cable line like Slingbox? What channels could I get? I know a lot of people do the HTPC route and use this setup but I was wondering if there was any way to watch cable TV just using the Eyetv.Īlso, more questions on the EyeTV for people that do own it. I was wondering if there was any way to rig the Elgato EyeTV tuner to the Apple TV and use the harddrive in it as storage for the DVR function. Cable is really expensive and being a student does not offer many luxuries. I live in a studio and normally just stream all my video/audio content to my Apple TV and just watch it from there. If there is a preexisting thread then please direct me in the right direction. Hi, I did a search on Macrumors but was not able to find a thread on this but I am pretty sure one does exist.
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