The EyeTV Hybrid & turbo.264 HD Hardware Bundle for Mac from Elgato Systems includes a digital TV tuner and hardware video accelerator, the perfect combination for Mac users who would like to record television shows and later watch them on their iPod or Apple TV.
The EyeTV Hybrid is a small external device connects to your computer via a standard USB 2.0 connection. It lets you input video directly from a coaxial, RCA or S-Video source. It comes with the EyeTV 3 software package to watch and record TV.
The turbo.264 is a USB hardware accelerator for H.264 video encoding. It can be used to convert video for use on the Apple TV, iPod, iPhone, and other devices that support the MPEG-4 files encoded with H.264.
The turbo.264 HD uses dedicated hardware to compress video. Software-based conversion can take up to an hour for a 15-minute video; the turbo.264 HD cuts that time to less than 20 minutes. This is an excellent option for anyone who has video content that they would like to play on their Apple TV, iPod, or iPhone.