Digital TV Ensares Me

After having my Elagato EyeTV 250 for over a year, I finally installed yesterday. The first show I watched with drug-like fascination was "60 Minutes." There was segment on Sully that was very gripping. More gripping were all the details on my monitor, like being able to count Sullys freckles and see exactly how many split ends the flight attendants had. I followed this up with The Grammy Awards. It was sort of like watching a train wreck. I kept wanting to get back to life as usual but just couldn't stop. The whole potato chip thing, ya' know ... you can't eat just one.

Great things about digital TV:
1. I can get it on my analog rabbit ears.
2. The reception has it all over analog.
3. Excellent detailed picture. (I can almost tell what brand of mascara the newscaster is wearing from the way it clumps and the color.)

Thanks to Elgato I can record and pause "live" TV. I'm not sure how live TV is anymore. I noticed that there were times during the Grammy Awards when Paul McCartney and Coldplay were seated in the first row across from each other, and other times when the first two rows looked like a game show audience.

But Elagato Eye TV 250 is totally great. The software install is a two step process: copy and double click. Yes. Really. The remote control, on the other hand, needs a freakin' manual. I still don't know how to use it. Thank goodness the software is simple to use and the virtual "remote" self-explanatory.
I think these screen shots are compressed. I know the live picture is much better than these snaps. Gotta check the settings.