Leave it paused for a while, as I did other things. Habits quickly altered: I’d turn on a program I wanted to watch and Only could I hit Pause when I wanted to get up and get something toĭrink, but having paused the program for a few minutes also meant IĬould Fast Forward through the next commercial break.
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Since I don’t have a TiVo, the ability to pause, rewind, and fastįorward live TV was new to me, and I quickly saw the attraction. Shows a completely different remote control with significantlyīetter-placed (though not always better-labeled) buttons.
The remote control documentation provided on the EyeTV CD You’ll have to get off the couch and walk over to your computer to start Remote control’s power button does not launch the EyeTV application Which is used to open the main EyeTV window. In addition, some of theīuttons are badly labeled, such as a button showing a musical note The remote, requiring an awkward grip to use. The buttons to play, pause, record, stop, etc. The buttons are poorly arranged: for example, It works, but itĬould be better designed. The EyeTV 250 package also includes a remote control. “older” computers (like my two-year-old PowerBook G4) can be used to watch Since the EyeTV 250 is doing the heavy lifting, Sure, my computer could do that, but it’d be highly The device also contains aĬompression chip which converts the incoming data into MPEG-1 or MPEG-2įormat. Through a coax cable into a Mac’s USB port. The EyeTV 250 hardware unit isn’t just a converter box to let data flow