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The headline feature of EyeTV 2.4 is integration with Apple TV, which works just like the older version's export to iPod feature; simply select a video from the list of recordings and click the new button in the menu bar to send your recording to Apple's new media streaming device.

Alternatively, you can flag scheduled recordings to have them export to Apple TV automatically when recording has completed.

As well as Apple TV integration, EyeTV 2.4 includes support for Spotlight and an updated program guide. Program description texts supplied by tvtv are now considerably

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more detailed. Areas of the timeline in which broadcasts are scheduled for recording are now highlighted in pink, providing the user with a quick reference. A progress bar now tracks Program Guide updates, an improvement that is particularly valuable for users of satellite solutions with many channels for which a large amount of program data must be transferred.

Users with multiple monitors can now specify on which monitor the Full Screen Menu is displayed and whether the remaining displays should be darkened. Those who frequently use the Full Screen Menu will also appreciate that they can now place the Mac in standby using an EyeTV remote control or the Apple Remote.

In addition to English, French, German and Japanese, localized versions of EyeTV are now available in Italian and Spanish.

Elgato rounds off this free update with numerous bug fixes as well as added support for TerraTec's Cinergy T XE, a USB stick for DVB-T reception, and Hauppauge's WinTV Nova-TD, a USB stick for DVB-T reception with two tuners and Antenna Diversity.

EyeTV 2.4 can be downloaded from here.