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EyeHome
Digital Content Finds a New “Home”
Over the past 5 years we‘ve seen a revolution in how people create and share photos, home
movies and music. Personal collections have moved from shoeboxes, stacks of tapes and
shelves of CDs, to the hard drive of a computer. But as the computer is certainly not the
most comfortable place to share and enjoy special memories with others, Elgato came up
with the ideal solution - EyeHome.
The EyeHome digital media player allows you to access the digital content you have stored
on your Mac and enjoy it on your TV or stereo. For the first time, your Mac’s digital content
is truly integrated into the living room, the natural place for enjoying photos, movies and
music.
Using EyeHome
EyeHome accesses your existing iPhoto, Movies and EyeTV content from your Mac on the TV
and your iTunes on your stereo. The content appears on the TV as it is organized on the Mac,
making it incredibly easy to navigate and find the correct digital content. From EyeHome’s
easy-to-use remote-controlled TV interface, you choose from a list of “EyeTV” recorded TV,
“Movies,” “Music,” “Pictures” and "Web“ to play your digital content.
EyeTV: EyeHome is designed to let you watch all of your recorded EyeTV content on your TV.
Your recordings are listed alphabetically by title, along with the date and duration of the
recording.
Movies: EyeHome directly accesses all of the content in your Movies folder. You can scroll
through your list of movies or search through your video library by using the Search
command at the top of the screen. EyeHome supports the most popular digital video formats
MPEG-1, -2, - 4 and DivX.
Music: EyeHome accesses your entire iTunes music library so you can play it from the
stereo or TV. Your iTunes library and all of your iTunes Playlists, incl. Smart Playlists, Artist,
Album and Genre, are displayed alphabetically. After selecting a Playlist, you can scroll
through to select individual tracks, or play the whole list by using the Play button. You can
also search for individual tracks, artists or albums.
Pictures: View individual pictures from your Pictures folder or your entire iPhoto library on your
TV with ease. Play slideshows of your organized photo albums along with personalized music.
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Web: EyeHome allows you to access the Internet on your TV, featuring an extensive catalog
of Internet radio stations, pre-selected news sites, as well as support for Mac OS X Safari
Web Bookmarks.
You can open the popup window with information about currently playing movies, EyeTV
recordings or songs.
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Technical Information
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EyeHome Goes Wireless
Using EyeHome wirelessly is easy.
Elgato recommends the Airport
Express wireless adapter to add
EyeHome to an existing wireless
802.11g wireless network.
For more information visit:
www.apple.com/airportexpress
As an alternative Elgato recommends
the inexpensive DWL-2000AP+ or the
DWL-G810 Wireless Bridge from
D-Link. For more information visit
www.dlink.com
Get Connected
EyeHome connects your TV or home entertainment system with your computer.
1 To the TV (via standard video and audio connections)
• Video: Composite, SCART (RGB)
• Audio: Cinch (RCA) or S/PDIF (optical digital audio)
2 To your Mac
• Home network router, hub or switch via the included Ethernet cable; or
• Wireless 802.11g network, using an optional wireless Ethernet Adapter (802.11g); or
• Directly to your Mac, by using a crossover Ethernet cable (not included).
Input/Output
EyeHome features the following input and output ports:
• 10/100 Base-T (Fast Ethernet)
• Composite video out
• Stereo audio out (cinch)
• SCART A/V connector
• Optical digital out
Video Output:
• Composite Video
• SCART
Audio Output:
• Stereo (Composite)
• S/PDIF (Optical)
Network:
• 10/100-Base-T Ethernet
Video Playback:
• MPEG-1 (.mpg)
• MPEG-2 (including unencrypted .vob)
• ISMA MPEG-4 (.mp4)
• DivX (including DIVX, DX50, XVID, DivX 3.x, 3ivX 4 codecs)
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Audio Playback:
• MPEG-1 Layers 1, 2, 3 (.mp3)
• AAC (.m4a, iTunes Music Store tracks are currently unsupported)
• AIFF
• WAV
• WMA (unencrypted)
• PLS (Internet Radio)
• Ogg Vorbis
• Dolby Digital sound through an S/PDIF port
Graphic File Formats Supported:
• JPEG
• BMP
• GIF
• PNG
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For More Information
about Elgato
and Elgato products, visit
www.elgato.com
For additional sales
information, contact
europesales@elgato.com
Power
• AC Adapter, DC 5V 1A
Measurements
Width: 21.08 cm
Height: 3.55 cm
Length: 15.50 cm
Weight: 376 g
System Requirements
EyeHome requires:
• A Macintosh computer with a PowerPC
• Mac OS X 10.3 or higher or Mac OS X 10.2.8 with QuickTime 6.4 and QuickTime for Java
1.4.1 (available via Software Update).
• Minimum 20 MB free hard disk space
• iPhoto, iTunes installed for viewing photo and music content
• EyeTV installed for viewing EyeTV (digital video recorder) recordings
• Internet connection for some features (Web) and firmware updates
To connect EyeHome to the Macintosh requires:
• A 10/100 RJ-45 port on a router, hub or switch; or
• An AirPort Extreme Network and a 802.11g Wireless Ethernet Adapter (not included); or
• A cross-over Ethernet cable (not included) to connect EyeHome directly to the Macintosh.
Detailed information about EyeHome can be found in the EyeHome manual at www.elgato.com/documentation.
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G4 or G5 processor
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