It’s time to turn your iPad into a mobile television. Elgato’s EyeTV Mobile is the world’s first Freeview tuner which connects directly to the iPad’s standard dock connector. The ultra-compact tuner receives the television signal from a miniature telescopic aerial or a rod aerial to power the free EyeTV Mobile app. Using the iPad’s internal storage, the app allows you to pause, rewind and record live TV. Even better, the EyeTV Mobile TV tuner will be just £99.95 when released late next month.
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We well in love with the TVonics DTR-HD500 last year. It scooped five stars in our review, and the coveted Electricpig Editor’s Choice award. Now, TVonics have been in touch because they want you, the Electricpig readers, to shape their newest product.
Read on, drop us a line in the comments section, telling TVonics what you’d like to see in a PVR and if your suggestion’s good enough, it might just make it into the finished article.
Mio has just announced its new satnav, the Mio Navman Spirit V575 TV. So far, so standard. But there’s something interesting about the Mio Navman Spirit V575 TV: it’s packing TomTom smarts on top of its TV capabilities.
A software upgrade is on its way for the Humax HD-FOX T2 set top box for Freeview HD, which will allow you to record live TV to a USB drive, turning your Humax Freeview HD box into a makeshift PVR. The Humax HD-FOX T2 update is due in early October, and also brings live pause and rewind, split recordings and schedule tracking so that you start your recordings on time.
Sky Sports News is set to disappear from Freeview and appear exclusively on pay TV services. If you’ve been used to getting your fix of Jeff Stelling’s perfect punning on Soccer Saturday for free you’ll now have to pay for the privilege or catch him on Countdown instead. Sky has also announced that Sky Sports News HD is on the way. For details and to find out what Sky is flinging onto Freeview instead, head on through…
Project Canvas, the on demand TV standard backed by the BBC, Channel 4, ITV, Five, BT and Talk Talk amongst others, won’t be challenged by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT). The common approach to on demand telly will mean services like 4OD, ITV Player and BBC iPlayer as well as web apps will be piped right into your living room…
A Sky discount could be on the cards following a ruling from the media regulator Ofcom that Sky’s parent company BSkyB must reduce the price it charges rivals for Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2. That could mean firms such as Virgin Media and BT will be able to discount Sky Sports in their packages or even offer them free as part of TV and broadband bundles.
Freeview HD has confirmed its channel line-up at last, and while we’ve heard for months that the BBC and ITV had grabbed spaces in the HD-through-an-aerial service’s spectrum, along with Channel 4, the final details might pack a few surprises yet.