Used EyeTV for Mac? Share your experience and help other users.
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Used EyeTV for Mac? Share your experience and help other users.
Full Specifications
- GENERAL
- Release
- Latest update
- Version
- 4.0.0-build-8527
- OPERATING SYSTEMS
- Platform
- Mac
- Operating System
- Mac OS X
- POPULARITY
- Total Downloads
- 103,961
- Downloads Last Week
- 2
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User Reviews
3.8/5
181 User Votes
Excellent software with no problems
PaulKB- Pros
- Works very well on my eight year old iMac. The picture is smooth, with no stuttering as other reviewers have experienced, even when I have all the setting set to produce the highest quality picture. I do not have an HD video source to test EyeTV with so I don't know how that works. I have never experienced any of the problems/issues other users have reported. BTW I am using OS 10.7.5. Maybe if I was still on an earlier OS version I might experience some of these issues.
- Cons
- None......
- Summary
- EyeTV is a very good Mac program for recording TV. I would highly recommend it to anyone wanting to record TV on their Mac.
my eyetv device no longer worked with the update
patddfan88- Pros
- works on any mac that is 2007 or newer
- Cons
- the eyetv usb device may be unsupported, and the upgrade is $79
- Summary
- skip this update unless its going to cost you $0 to update
uses more CPU
gizmo00042- Pros
- adds more features and is updated for more recent macs...
- Cons
- I have an older macbook (core2duo) and have noticed when set to "progressive scan" the video now stutters a little and is not smooth like it was in older versions of eyetv.
- Summary
- This is case of all older computers, new software demands more performance from the hardware. I am trying to downgrade the eyetv software to an older version now.....
Regrettable purchase
b2010d- Pros
- Easy to install and setup Great UI
- Cons
- Unreliable
- Summary
- This is potentially a great piece of software. However you need to be checking it regularly to see if it works. In my experience it regularly forgets to stop a recording and will just fill up the HDD on which you are storing programs. I'm using it on a Mac Mini (2011) with a 1TB HDD and an Elgato NetStream. The usual scenario is that i program one or two programs to record during the week, go away, come back on Friday night, and it will have not stopped a random recording from early in the week, so that I have a show that should be say a 30 min or one hour recording, but it will have recorded the next 24 or 36 hours on that station. I am now using V3.5.6 but all versions seem to have the same problem. Customer support has worked hard to try to rectify, but I am giving up and will purchase a stand alone PVR to replace.
Excellent software/hardware
Donald S. Hunt- Pros
- Works every time
- Cons
- EyeTV 250 Plus has problematic power connection and case heat distortion
- Summary
Very Impressive Software
Siskel & Ebert- Pros
- Works Great Very Reliable Great Remote Access with iPhone Wake on WAN request, daemon even starts app.
- Cons
- cost (a little high)
- Summary
- Great job on an excellent product!
Very good, but...
sherab108- Pros
- see below and please post if I am missing something
- Cons
- see below and please post if I am missing something
- Summary
- ..This version is a bit of a step back IMHO. The only thing I can see as that step backward is that to access the main onscreen menu one has to go from fullscreen to a windowed screen thus making it very "Un-TV like" and making it more like a computer program. My computer IS my TV/entertainment center and when in TV mode I don't want it to even resemble a computer (if/when possible)...having to resize the main TV screen to reveal the guide and recordings is VERY clunky. version 3.4 is NOT like that and I have gone back to that version until there is a fix. I may be missing something because no one else seems to be complaining about this change...if I am please post a reply to this review.
Have happily used EyeTV for several years. Love it!
rammda- Pros
- Easy to set up and use.
- Cons
- Sorry that the latest versions/updates no longer support Power PC processor.
- Summary
Irons out the few creases that existed previously
grahamfowler- Pros
- Always been easy to use and gets better
- Cons
- Would like the e.p.g. to sort better into categories on the basis of the colour coding
- Summary
It does everything that I ask-what could be better?
dmac6- Pros
- it works great
- Cons
- no negatives
- Summary
- A great investment!!!!