I made it clear on the video that I am pleased with the Pinnacle HDTV USB tuner with the included eyeTV software for watching TV on my MacBook Pro.  The Pinnacle is a full DVR too and recording TV couldn’t be easier and works very well.  It turns out it works better than I thought as jkOnTheRun reader Valto posted in a comment to that video post telling me to enjoy watching those recorded TV shows on my iPod Touch.  It turns out he/she was right and I am happy to report that this little known feature of the eyeTV software is sweet indeed.

What you have to do in eyeTV is go into the Preferences and on the Wi-Fi Access tab turn Wi-Fi Access on.  What this does is two things- when you record a TV show when it’s done the eyeTV software automatically creates a H.264 format video which is then available to be streamed to your iPhone/ iPod Touch over your home Wi-Fi network.  This preference dialog box also gives you a local network IP address to access your recorded TV via the iPod.  As this indicates the URL is a web-based interface for your handheld to access your entire recorded TV shows.  Once you play one it streams it wirelessly to the handheld which is cool.  The video playback is flawless and since it’s streaming you don’t have to take up any storage space on the iPod or iPhone which is always scarce.

Kudos to the eyeTV people for thinking ahead and providing this capability right out of the box.  Kudos too to Valto for bringing this to my attention.  Gotta go, football’s just starting on my Mac.