Comments on: Elgato EyeTV 500 does cable HDTV!

By: eHomeUpgrade | Mac Mini - Obsessive HTPC Thinking

eHomeUpgrade | Mac Mini - Obsessive HTPC Thinking — Fri, 04 May 2007 03:08:58 +0000

[...] for video playback or instead just go with VLC, Quicktime or Mplayer. Pop in a DVD and it’s on!As mentioned earlier the EyeTV 500 now supports digital cable (hell yeah!) and OTA broadcasts. Optional… I was also [...]

By: Jonathan Greene

Jonathan Greene — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 04:03:47 +0000

Clear QAM is unencrypted cable… It’s not much to view unfortunately and actually may not even be available from your cable company though they are technically supposed to offer it. If it is available you can expect to find NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox, PBS and possibly UPN and WB.

HBO, Discovery, ESPN etc are all cable channels and not broadcast over the air like the rest which would be simply “passed through” on cable though that’s clearly a different signal than one you would receive with an HDTV OTA (Over the Air) antenna.

By: Max

Max — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 23:31:17 +0000

I have been interested in this device for awhile and especially now since I also heard this news. Do you have any idea what Clear QAM means? Which cable channels are unencrypted? I imagine each provider decides this on thier own, but can I look for the locals, Discovery and the like? Maybe ESPN? Surely not HBO? Any ideas? I've looked around the web and haven't found much. Thank you!