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Elgato Systems was the one place I was checking out as MacWorld approached. I'd seen the EyeTV 300 and 400 products, noticed that they were FireWire based and sniffed about it a bit. I held my breath, bit my tongue and didn't say anything.
Yesterday they announced the new stuff.
I honestly don't know what to make of the EyeHome product. If they had .avi support it might be more interesting. There are a lot of homebrew solutions in this area that just seem more useful without all the added expense (no cables locally). At this point, the product is tuned to what they generate rather than what a typical user might accumulate. For example, the movies coming out of my camera are .avi files. I want to play them on the TV right after getting them out of the memory card.
EyeTV 200 is what I'd been hoping for. We'll have to see how the retailers end up pricing it but it sounds like a terrific device.
Posted by Dave at January 7, 2004 10:28 AM