DVR to the People.

I’m the happy owner of Terratec’s EyeTV and as I glanced the headlines for the latest Mac stories over at MacDailyNews, one headline caught my attention for a nano-second before I moved on. It related how EyeTV maker Elgato has pulled it’s licence from Miglia to use it’s EyeTV software. In another part of the world, Apple removed all Miglia products from it’s stores (I’m not sure if this is the case in Australia). Without too much “forethought” on my part I moved to the next headline.

Skipping back a few months to WWDC06 when the now named “Apple TV” was announced.
The general concensus was “d’uh”. The biggest complaint is that the device didn’t have DVR (digital video recorder or recording tv to your computer) capabilties. Here we go again with “forethought”. As time went on people started to see the big picture to the point where the new concensus is, “this is the killer app”.

Back to the future. It has been revealed in the last few days that Apple have been in talks with Miglia and the speculation has been that Apple is either buying the company or atleast rights to the technology to add DVR capabilities to the Apple TV. Either way the big bug bear about the device could be resolved.

It could be another reason the “iTV” became the “Apple TV”. Calling it iTV after working with Miglia would really be rubbing Elgato’s nose in it.