Elgato has been making TV tuner boxes and software for the mac for a while now, Scott has an older one and likes it, and earlier this year I was thinking about getting some HDTV in the house on the cheap. It wasn’t a terrible idea then, but it would end up a bit too expensive since we didn’t have any machines at the time capable of decoding HDTV, especially during scenes with a lot of motion.
Now Andrea’s Macbook should be fast enough, and this EyeTV Hybrid is a little cheaper than these things were last year. I’ll wait to read some hands-on reviews, but it does look promising. The biggest question is the level of integration with the mac, but a lot of that is software.