#EYETV MOBILE TV#
MPEG-2 HD and MPEG-4/H.264 TV channels are not supported, neither are Freeview HD or DVC-T2. Your iPad 2 will have to be working with iOS 4.3.3 or newer (not a problem if you’re up to date at this point,) and you’ll want to know that EyeTV Mobile supports MPEG-2 standard definition video only. You’ll be able to record shows played through your iPad 2 then transfer them using iTunes to watch elsewhere – note that there’s no anti-copy protection in any of this. You’ll have to keep your iPad 2 charged up before you go about watching any television as your only port for charging will be taken up by this receiver which has no additional iPad cord port. The EyeTV Mobile receiver comes with several things a miniature telescopic aerial (MCX), a rod aerial with magnetic base and removable suction cup, a USB charging cable (which, mind you, charges the EyeTV Mobile battery, not the iPad itself, and a printed Quick Start Guide. Want to get the weather report but don’t have an internet connection down on your farm? Plug the EyeTV Mobile tuner in to your iPad 2 and BAM! Weather channel.
#EYETV MOBILE FOR FREE#
You’ll be able to download the EyeTV Mobile app from your iTunes App Store for free to work with the tuner in a very simple way. What this little piece of hardware does is connect to your iPad 2’s dock connector, receiving then television signals without the aid of an internet connection. The EyeTV Mobile tuner measures 31x41x11mm and weighs 14g, it supports DVB MPEG-2 video, but not HD.What you get is this little piece of hardware that you see in the photos above and below. Vote for Elgato in the Recombu Awards to win an Apple iPad 2
#EYETV MOBILE FULL#
We’ll bring you a full review as soon as we get a sample. We’re hoping it could work with the new iPhone (which we’re expecting to have confirmed next week), especially if it’s more powerful than the current iPhone 4. also includes a rod aerial with magnetic base and removable suction cup.Įlgato’s crafted a niche at creating TV tuners and software, most recently we tried Elgato Tivizen, a wireless TV tuner that lets you watch TV on your tablet, even in you don’t have WiFi or 3G, by creating its own hot spot.Įlgato EyeTV Mobile is expected to ship in the next couple of weeks and will cost £99.95. Live TV is included and a particularly interesting feature is Timesift Buffer, which provides a 2GB buffer (around 76 minutes), should you wish to pause Live TV.Įlgato EyeTV Mobile works with the iPad 2 running iOS 4.3.3 or newer. This well featured app lets you access a full EPG, recordings which are stored on the iPad’s internal memory.
#EYETV MOBILE SOFTWARE#
Elgato was keen to stress the the software is not final yet. It plugs directly into the doc and has a mini aerial that pulls out to receive a Freeview signal.Ĭontrol the tuner using the simple (and free) EyeTV Mobile app. First thing to know before anything else is that the eyetv Mobile is not picking up television signals directly from network transmission towers instead it is using a free service called Dyle TV. The EyeTV Mobile is tiny, very small – smaller than a box of matches. Recombu got some hands-on time with it last night at the Computers Unlimited event. Elgato recently introduced the EyeTV Mobile a compact TV tuner designed especially for the Apple iPad 2.
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