Elgato EyeTV just got better (iPad)

Finally they have released a version that supports AirPlay video for live tv and for recorded shows.

It's great.

I just wonder why the developers always forget the background streaming first. Air Video solved it now perfectly.

I also forgot to mention that Elgato should add live conversion through the iPad app, so that I don't have to convert everything before I can actually stream it to the iPad/Apple Tv2. I mean I have also bought the Turbo.H264 stick and my Mac is up to it (actually it would be without, since AirVideo Server does not make use of it).

If you start playing around with EyeTV app and go through your recordings you wonder why is it not possible to use some kind of iMovie to actually edit the recording, i.e. cut out the ads! I have been running iMovie on iPad 1 and the speed and everything was great, but really I think of the iPad of the extension of my other computers lying around.

What does that mean?

The iPad is the front end that should be there to create and modify content but not actually store it!

Look at the photos app, it's just .... limited. Why not with the photo app connect to whatever iPhoto library and browse through and rotate the picture and make small correction or identify person etc. etc. but no I have to really sync it (over a cable) to my photo app and then be able to do ZIP. yes it's nice to pinch around but it gets boring, not even the nice diashows can be done. Limited.

So what about the movie editing. I would love to be able to cut out the ads of the recorded shows, I also would love to do editing and other things from the iPad, but the action should actually be carried out on the backend.

It took apple 20 years to improve on the palm pilot (we still have not the same functionality, albeit were close). Let's just hope that I don't have to wait another 20 to get those features incorporated.