The latter cable can be used as a way of attaching a camcorder or old VCR to your Mac in order to digitize older videos. There's additional hardware supplied with the EyeTV Hybrid as well - an infrared remote control complete with batteries, a USB extension cable, and a small cable for input of standard definition input from other video sources. The EyeTV software displays three primary screens the actual TV show, a small 'remote control' that shows up on the screen, and a main window that is used to display a program guide (one year's free subscription to TV Guide's program data is included with the EyeTV), set up recordings, and create playlists.

That's not particularly surprising to me, since I only watch about 6 of the 600+ channels on cable. In the Denver area, there ended up being 32 digital TV channels that I could pull in with the antenna, and only about 6 of those seemed to be worth watching. Since I didn't want to incur the expense of running cable up to my office for a review, I purchased an inexpensive digital TV antenna and connected it to the EyeTV. You install the included software on your Mac, plug the EyeTV Hybrid into an available USB 2.0 port, connect cable TV or a digital TV antenna, and then let the EyeTV setup software do its magic. Elgato makes setting up the EyeTV Hybrid a cinch.

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