EyeTV Hybrid and EyeTV 250 Plus Comparison

The main difference between the Hybrid and the EyeTV 250 Plus is the presence of on-board hardware encoding in the EyeTV 250 Plus.

The EyeTV 250 Plus encodes analog video as it is imported into your Mac from the tuner, freeing your Mac of the effort of processing this signal. The Hybrid does not include this onboard encoding functionality and will simply pass along the video for your Mac's processor to deal with.

This allows the EyeTV 250 Plus to offer superior analog quality, but it also gives the EyeTV Hybrid the small size and flexibility to be used in more portable settings - like on vacation using a laptop, for example.

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Satellite and EyeTV

Any analog EyeTV device can receive signals from a satellite receiver. That can be achieved using a coaxial, composite or S-Video connection, in the same way you would connect the satellite receiver to a TV. That will be standard video, and not HDTV.

When using a satellite receiver, change channels using the satellite receiver’s remote, and not EyeTV.

EyeTV 250 Plus and EyeTV Hybrid have analog inputs that can be used with a satellite receiver.

To learn more about how to set up EyeTV with Satellite, click here.