Simply put, if you're in an area of good Freeview reception, or are likely to be travelling to one and want to watch and record TV on the go, it's the best and, in fact, only solution for the Mac out there. If you're on a G5 stacked with RAM it's unaffected, but you can't lug a G5 around with you, can you? Bear in mind, though, even with the fastest PowerBook, you won't want to try and work while recording TV - it can cause breaks in the recording process. In addition, integration with Roxio Toast lets you burn shows to CD or DVD. The built-in editor lets you quickly edit out ad breaks and the like. Your programmes show up in a list, along with how much HDD space they're taking up (encoded in MPEG-2, EyeTV shows take up about 2GB space per hour). You can, as we've mentioned, either program EyeTV to record a show, or simply hit the Record button. Recording programs is as easy as it should be.
You can use the supplied one-year tvtv subscription to either select what you want to watch, or, and this is the best bit, program EyeTV to record remotely (as long as your Mac is on) from the web or even your mobile phone. If you want more control over your viewing schedule, you can, if you have a web connection on the Mac the EyeTV hardware is set up on.
It's all very simple - like watching Freeview on a set-top box, in fact. An info bar appears every time to switch channels to inform you of which channel you're watching, what's on now and next and programmed channel number.
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