Elgato Introduces Macintosh TV Tunerby Mark BassettPublished on Dec 1, 2003 12:00 AM 
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German based, Elgato Systems announced the release of their TiVo-like EyeTV 300/400 digital video recorders, which watch, record, edit and archive digital satellite and terrestrial television on the Mac. PowerBook or iBook users will be able to play and record MPEG-2 format digital satellite television with the EyeTV 300, and terrestrial television with the EyeTV 400.
Similar to TiVo or NVidia’s All in Wonder card, EyeTV users can record television to the Mac's hard drive using approximately 2GB of hard disk space per hour of recorded TV. The receivers are programmed through the manual control panel, an optional program guide from 'tvtv', or remotely via the Internet. In addition to watching digital television on the Mac, users can pause, rewind or fast forward programming, and EyeTV's built-in editor allows content editing.
The EyeTV 400 receives digital terrestrial television through a small portable antenna and the EyeTV 300 through a satellite dish; both are powered by FireWire bus, and require no additional power supply. An accessory CD/DVD recorder and Roxio's Toast 6 Titanium software are required to archive programs to DVD.