

I moved one aerial about a millimetre and strength dropped to 64% from 100%, which is dismal. Here’s what the inky, dinky little aerials are giving me right now. Want every episode of Top Gear that starts after 6pm, but not the ones on BBC3, only the ones on Dave? Then you can set a Smart Guide to record them. Smart Guides were new in version 3.0 and just like iTunes’ Smart Playlists, allow you to set up rules, in this case to get EyeTV to record or alert you to anything that fits those rules. Latest addition in version 3.1 is the Record All button:Ĭlick it and EyeTV will set up a Smart Guide that will record all instances of a program, not just that episode. It does just about everything you’d want in a PVR and it’s very user friendly – I reviewed an earlier version elsewhere. Suffice it to say, the trailing cable’s now arriving this week some time.įirst, let’s differentiate the software from the hardware. So I had two options: either stick a great big trailing cable around the room to where there is a TV socket or invest in an EyeTV Diversity, which employs two mini antennae and some fancy signal processing skills to supposedly produce great pictures and reception even indoors. Twats).Īnyway, I’ve moved flat and my Mac is no longer sitting comfortably near a TV socket. After a few software updates, it got better and started to behave, even if it still warranted the name Bastard for refusing to export anything over an hour long to my AppleTV without giving an error (allegedly the fault lies with my Turbo H.264, made by the same company. It was originally called Bastard because of its occasional refusal to record programmes for no adequately explored reason.

As you may know, I have a PVR for my Mac called Bastard.
