If you are not prepared to wait for the Apple iTV then you might want to get your hands on TVMax, a PVR device for your Apple Mac.TVMax is made by Miglia Technology and uses Elegato EyeTV bringing you a user interface on par with TiVo.
TVMax has all the basic PVR features you would expect for a Mac including:
- Watch, pause, rewind and skip forward Live TV, timeshift on your Mac.
- Record and edit your favorite shows with a built in EPG (Electronic Program Guide).
- One click Apple iPod (writes directly to iTunes) or Sony PSP export.
- Hardware compression to MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX
- Convert VHS and Hi8 tapes to DVD
