I am absolutely loving Elgato’s EyeTV 250 Plus. Right now I’m watching the Presidential news conference while “24″ records in the background. The ClearQAM digital cable pickup of local high definition signals is brilliant. Also, the software is actually really nice and works well. I’m going to experiment with editing out the commercials prior to watching “24″ tonight. (I played around with this a little bit earlier and it looked easy as pie.)
On a related note, I also purchased and will soon receive the Turbo.264 video encoding hardware to speed up the process of exporting to the iPhone H.264 format. I exported and watched an episode of “House” yesterday and found it a pleasant viewing experience. It took almost an hour to encode the show without the Turbo.264, so we’ll see how it does with it.
Update: Very impressed with the EyeTV editor. It only takes about 5 minutes to zap the commercials out of a recording.