EyeTv and Sky Digital

failsafe

Does anyone know if this combination works? Basically I have my iMac in my room, and I'm trying to watch (and record) TV on it. I have a digibox downstairs (or for the adventurous option - the feed in from the satellite runs right above my room!) and I was wondering if there was a way that I could watch Sky Digital channels on my Mac.

I've searched around and come back across the EyeTV (on the apple website) which some forums say should work with digital tv. The only thing is that the specs all say DTT, which in the UK works well with the freeview channels, but would that work here?

Or does anyone else know any other methods of getting the digital signal into my mac?

fbradyirl

failsafe wrote:

Does anyone know if this combination works? Basically I have my iMac in my room, and I'm trying to watch (and record) TV on it. I have a digibox downstairs (or for the adventurous option - the feed in from the satellite runs right above my room!) and I was wondering if there was a way that I could watch Sky Digital channels on my Mac.

I've searched around and come back across the EyeTV (on the apple website) which some forums say should work with digital tv. The only thing is that the specs all say DTT, which in the UK works well with the freeview channels, but would that work here?

Or does anyone else know any other methods of getting the digital signal into my mac?

I use EyeTV sometimes in Cavan where I can pick up the northern DTT channels via a large aerial on top of the house. Works well. Sky channels are encrypted though so dunno if you can do this. If you do please let me know!!

failsafe

So eye tv just picks up whats floating in the air?

Does anyone know if there's a way you can get a direct feed into an iMac in any way?

su_dios

Bit of an old bump but I'm looking into the same thing at the moment with pretty much the exact setup as you had.

What input can we use for EyeTv in Ireland then?

J-blk

The only way to use a Sky box with an Eye TV tuner would be to plug the box into the composite or S-video inputs that these tuners have - you can't really bypass the box itself. The main problem though it that, annoyingly, for European providers, there is no way for Eye TV to change the channel on the Sky box (something that is easily done in Windows Media Center) and so you have to change the channel on the box yourself whenever needed - as you can imagine, this makes the whole setup pretty useless for recordings as well, as you can schedule them in the Eye TV software, but there's no way to get it to change the channel automatically.