Watch TV…on your computer!? It’s like we’re living in the future! The Elgato HDHomeRun is a new device that connects to your antenna or cable box, and allows you stream HD TV signals wirelessly to multiple computers, as well as devices like the iPad and iPhone. The HDHomeRun connects to your source via Ethernet, then broadcasts over your home network. On the Mac end, it uses Elgato’s EyeTV software to stream HD video to to your computer, as well as search for shows, record video, and export that to iTunes.

The primary goal of Elgato’s EyeTV HD DVR is simple—to give you Digital Video Recorder (DVR) capabilities on your Mac. It allows for both HD and standard definition recording, it allows you to control your TV with the built in EyeTV software, it lets you add your saved content to you iPhone or iPad for viewing on the go, and it comes with a temporarily free subscription to TV guide online. Is that enough?

Elgato has announced today that v1.0.2 of their EyeTV app enables streaming of live TV signals over Wi-Fi as well as 3G connections. In other words, using the EyeTV app on your iPhone to watch TV no longer requires a Wi-Fi connection. You’re still going to need some hardware, but it’s likely hardware that fans of Elgato products already have. Users who run EyeTV 3.3.3 and have a compatible TV tuner will be able to watch live TV and previous EyeTV recordings, as well browse the Program Guide and to start recordings on their Macs or schedule them for later.

The EyeTV One is as simple as a product gets. It does one thing—converting an over-the-air DTV signal to USB—and it does that one thing very well. However, just that would be a boring review, and the questions surrounding this product aren’t so much about whether it works, but what it actually does, and where it would fit into a home entertainment setup. I can see the One fitting perfectly into my Mac mini-entertainment-center dream.

Elgato’s EyeTV app for iPhone is nearly everything you’d want from a TV app. It shows what you’ve already recorded, it shows you scheduled recordings for the future, it gives you access to the TV Guide data you pay yearly for, it even streams past recordings (provided they’ve been converted for iPhone) over 3G, not just Wifi. And of course, the biggest feature here, it’ll stream live TV over Wifi, not just your home network.

Apple has pulled Elgato’s EyeTV app for iPhone from the App Store. Why? I like to think it’s because the app was too awesome, but they say the official reason is due to its hidden ability to stream live TV over 3G. Mind you, EyeTV for iPhone doesn’t actually appear to stream live TV over 3G to the casual user. In fact, I was unable to verify this feature myself until…

You have an EyeTV Hybrid, and possibly a Turbo.264. Now, what are you going to do with all of this video? You could watch it on your Mac, but I’m sure that couch of yours is calling. How do you do that? Well, you could export all of your video for AppleTV and then buy an overpriced piece of hardware that does one thing…or, you could buy a PS3 and Elgato’s EyeConnect.

Elgato is well known for their superb EyeTV software and hardware that goes along with it. Recording TV is what they do best, but it’s not all they do; Elgato also makes a great product called the Turbo.264. It’s a USB dongle that eats video for breakfast, and throws up compressed video just as soon as you look away. Seriously though, it kills just about anything else in a speed test.

The EyeTV Hybrid is a superb TV tuner that brings DVR functionality to the Mac with incredible video quality. It, together with EyeTV 3.1, allows you to watch and record live TV, set up recording schedules, and export recordings for later viewing and archiving. Elgato recently started manufacturing these units in-house, and it couldn’t have happened at a better time, as it was developed side by side with the latest update to EyeTV, bumping it to 3.1. Let’s take a look at what’s new.

Elgato, creators of the EyeTV Hybrid TV Tuner Stick, has released EyeTV 3.1. This update, the first significant upgrade in over a year, introduces a new electronic programming guide for North America and the Smart Series Guide feature, which automatically records an entire season of a TV show. The update also adds parental controls and numerous other enhancements.