Post-Macworld Update on Elgato's Products--EyeTV Wonder, EyeConnect & EyeTV 500

Elgato Systems showed off some great new products at Macworld 2005 SF. Here is their current status:

EyeTV Wonder--Elgato is now shipping EyeTV Wonder USB 2.0 in North America. The jointly developed analog TV tuner from Elgato and ATI Technologies is the perfect way to watch TV on your Mac. It handles uncompressed video at 240 MBit/sec with ease, includes on-demand recording as well as remote programming via the free electronic program guide, TitanTV. EyeTV Wonder USB 2.0 has a built-in 125-channel analog TV tuner transferring raw, uncompressed video directly to your Mac, and delivering superior quality TV. It has a suggested retail price of only $149.00 and EyeTV Wonder USB 2.0 is Elgato's first fully complementary product for the Mac mini.

EyeConnect Public Preview is available. EyeConnect, the Macintosh market’s first commercially available media streaming software is based on Universal Plug and Play Audio/Video standard (UPnP AV). EyeConnect enables digital music, video, or photo content, including EyeTV recordings, iPhoto photos, iTunes songs and movies stored on a Macintosh, to be played on a broad variety of UPnP™AV certified devices. The public preview of EyeConnect version is available from this web page.

EyeTV 500, exclusively available on the Mac, is the only fully featured high-definition digital TV recorder in the entire PC industry supporting digital unencrypted cable as well as digital terrestrial reception. EyeTV 500 allows Mac users to enjoy interference-free crystal-clear HDTV in remarkable digital picture and sound quality. Watch HDTV via free–to-air digital HDTV (ATSC) or unencrypted digital cable TV (Clear QAM) on the Mac.

[Bill Fox]