FLASH1296  I am a long-time user of Eye T.V. and now am using the Eye TV HD External DV Recorder

Elgato Turbo.264 is an excellent video convertter appl' as well.

Loving it.

Very versatile. The interface took some getting used to. The HELP files are very helpful.  
(Version 3.4.2)

CERNIUK  Neat software and impressive interconnection to FrontRow to make your Mac (mini?) a true multimedia center. The presentation (multimedia interface) is near perfect but the user interface in the software proper (mac interface) can be somewhat confusing and frustratingly buggy.

There is no local help file on the Mac with this software. This is unacceptable.

My hard disk continuously gets overloaded because the "keep [ ] shows" option on a smart play list does not delete the recordings automatically. There should also be an option to delete a recording as soon as it has been exported to iTunes. Without these two, i suffer through hours of matching up recordings in Elgato to exports to iTunes and deleting the duplicates.

Why hours, because the channel guide gets messed up and starts recording CNN instead of SyFy channel for example and Twilight Zone looks an awful lot like a political nightmare that never ends.

Then there is the lock up problems that seem to occur when other USB related operations are running. If you run EyeTV and have exports going on using their Turbo compressor product (hardware that offloads the video compression) the EyeTV and in fact the whole system gets hurky-jerky. I bought the Turbo specifically to avoid this problem but it seems to make it worse because the eyetv and turbo units are both USB and USB is not exactly the best at sustained throughput (these products should have been firewire for technical reasons I will not dive into but suffice to say I worked with the TI Firewire camera group and know the animal)

So over all story, good software but frustrating to use sometimes and a maintenance headache. High hopes for it getting better. Would have paid another $50 for a better designed firewire product which would have made the entire user experience smooth as silk an possibly made it so the hardware could have fed iMovie or other applications.  
(Version 3.4.2)

JEFF H.  I've been using EyeTV software for years, in fact I think since it came out. I've always had great luck with them and for the most part they listen to their customers.

But I unchecked the "Check for updates automatically" a couple updates ago.

I've got a VERY stable, working, EyeTV, and I'm not going to update just to update.

I recently had a problem with losing Clear QAM channels on a hybrid so I figured I would update to the latest...the update was rubbish! I could no longer reach the menu while I was in full-screen mode, I had to exit fullscreen then enter the menu command (I have an ATI Remote Wonder as my remote) then re-enter fullscreen mode. This really kills the TV experience in my opinion and makes it more buggy/computer-like. Also the descriptions are no longer windowed which IMHO make them harder to read, a lot from across the room,which I would think is where you would be viewing your TV from. And I have a 47" panel, so its not a 20" screen thats hard to see at a distance.

Thank god for Time Machine! I simply rolled back to 3.4 and everything was back to normal.

This seems like a small thing but it really isn't. What made them think this was a good idea? Am I missing something? Is this an option setting?

I still love EyeTV...I highly recommend it, in fact I have and several of my friends use it and absolutely love it! One of the best pieces of software on my computer, just gotta wonder what they were thinking on this update.  
(Version 3.4.2)

DOMINIQUE  Bienvenue dans EyeTV 3.4.2 !

Quoi de neuf dans cette version ?

Ajout du support de Turbo.264 HD 1.1.1. Assurez-vous de mettre à jour Turbo.264 HD et EyeTV car les versions précédentes d'EyeTV ne sont pas compatibles avec Turbo.264 HD 1.1.1.  
(Version 3.4.2)

JPW  Thank the Lord above (and the developer) for that precious - ever so precious - Vuvuzela filter!  
(Version 3.4)

REVCO  Aww kr@p! 3.3.2 aspect ratio cropping on exported files is messed up.

Sample:

http://www.glowfoto.com/static_image/19-232326L/8282/jpg/03/2010/img5/glowfoto

Opened the same recording in 3.3 and it exported fine.  
(Version 3.3.2 (6034))

SATCOMER  The new 64bit updates in v3.3.2 are great. This is the way to get TV into you Mac and Elgato continues to update the software to fix things.   
(Version 3.3.2 (6034))

DOMINIQUE PERETTI  The app being 32 bits doesn't mean the subprocess that decodes the video is not 64 bits...  
(Version 3.3.2 (6034))

MACLOVER1.1  I watch tv online now.. so er.. well.. anyone wants to buy my Terratec/Elgato lol  
(Version 3.3.2 (6034))

XCO  Frankly, I find some of the eyeTV reviews below disingenuous.

eyeTV is a good application that, in my 3-years experience with it in the US and UK, works as advertised. We have replaced all our US televisions with Macs running eyeTV.

In the US, we view TV using cable, the lowest cost Comcast service. Yet, using eyeTV, we get all the digital and, dare I say, all of the main HD (QAM) channels.

In the UK, I use Freeview. The problem is Freeview reception can be poor, especially in parts of London. That will improve as the signal strength is boosted in coming years.

One can use eyeTV with tuners from both Elgato and third-parties.  
(Version 3.3.2 (6034))