EyeTV

ya, it is a great one. i can't wait to see how it does on 10.5 when it comes out. but in some apps it does really show its age, like in idvd and eyetv encoding, and daz|studio.

white, or antenna out, then it can be plugged into the eyetv 250, and the software that comes with the 250 will display it on your screen. ...

I refer you back to the beginning of this thread. Read it all again. You'll need an EyeTV 200 or EyeTV250 plus the necessary cables to connect it to your Sky Digibox. ...

I use the EyeTv 200 with a Mac Pro 2. ...

I know the EyeTV software is good, i currently watch Freeview on it using TVMini. What hardware do you use? ...

Yes. Pretty good picture on the computer via a coaxial cable to a Sky Box situated far away in another part of the house. The EyeTv software is excellent, btw. ...

btw. To really confuse things you could look at the EyeTv 310 which acts as a satellite receiver as well, though it won't get SKY so you'd have to have another dish aimed at a non SKY satellite. ...

Possibly, but not yet. In fact, things seem to be moving away from Firewire (which I prefer to USB). New video cameras are mostly USB and even the new iPods are USB only for music management. For Sky compatability see the EyeTv site and do a search - you'll see three solutions: http://www.elgato.com/index.php?file=products_eyetvmain2&countrytogo=36&signal=all

Which bit didn't you understand? You either buy one of the cheaper EyeTv (or similar) devices, the EyeTv 250 (USB) being probably the best bet for you as it is in production and has a 'break-out' cable to connect to the SKY box via S-Video / RCA. Or you could try to get hold of the more expensive and better (but recently discontinued) EyeTV 200. This connects to your...

Yes, Elgato's EyeTV Hybrid has a "zero latency" feature than it meant for console games. ...