ReplayTV launches Personal HD tuner kit, plays nice with iPod / iPhone

We've seen a number of USB tuners that make converting files for handheld viewing a lesson in simplicity, but ReplayTV is givin' you one more alternative. The Personal HD kit includes a USB 2.0 ATSC / NTSC hybrid tuner, an antenna, wireless remote (which fits nicely in a spare PCMCIA slot), a free year of ReplayTV Electronic Program Guide (EPG), and bundled software that features native iPod, Apple TV and iPhone support. This "all-in-one" solution for getting OTA content on your device of choice is set to ship this November for $99.95.

[ben @ Sep 19th 2007 5:25PM]

shame there's no QAM support.....

[Subhash Roy @ Sep 19th 2007 5:45PM]

Would be nice if it/when it supports macs...

[Shane @ Sep 19th 2007 6:33PM]

I like the Pinnacle HD USB stick better...Works with both PC and mac...

Couldn't they have used an ExpressCard form factor for the remote instead of PCMCIA? PCMCIA slots are becoming scarce...

[Ian @ Sep 19th 2007 7:07PM]

NO QAM NO purchase by me. What on earth are they thinking....

[Jim @ Sep 19th 2007 7:19PM]

No QAM is really stupid. Who are their product planners anyway?

[Ian @ Sep 19th 2007 7:22PM]

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ReplayTV Personal HD is compatible with terrestrial antenna, most analog cable and select digital cable and satellite set-top boxes.
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So what on earth does "select digital cable" mean? No more details on their website.

[matt byrne @ Sep 19th 2007 7:39PM]

If it works with Sky boxes here in the UK and they make it Mac compatible, I'd be interested in this.

[Frankenstein Black @ Sep 19th 2007 8:25PM]

Alas dear ReplayTV, we knew ye well! First to market, first in unit to unit content sharing, first in unit to unit Internet content sharing (i.e. dude let me send you that Hero episode that you missed), auto commercial skip, set it and forget it uninterrupted tv showing viewing, (as in no fast forward or skip button mashing needed).

The old DVR girl is showing her age, soon to be replaced by a Tivo S3. Why? Well, no HD. A ReplayTV HD would have been the "Cat's Meow". One can only keep hope alive ;^)...

[Carlos @ Sep 19th 2007 9:08PM]

Hmm ElGato has been doing this for years on the Mac side with their EyeTV products.

EyeTV can record HD, SD, QAM signals and dish (with channel changing IR signal), export to iPod, AppleTV, iPhone and comes with Roxio Toast lite to burn DVDs

I wish they would bring the firewire EyeTV 200 back but their current product line-up is awesome.

elgato.com

[Jnetty @ Sep 19th 2007 10:10PM]

Thats the Hauppauge HVR-950 re-branded by Replay-TV. The same thing that El Gato does already.

[myktek @ Sep 20th 2007 12:04PM]

SnapStream's Beyond TV does the same thing, converts it and sends it to ITune and all you have to do is sync your ipod/iphone/appletv and it puts the files on there for you.