The Elgato EyeTV One Computer TV Tuner 10020311 plugs into a USB port, and allows you to plug your antenna into it. It's corresponding software lets you watch TV on your Mac and use it like a DVR.
You can actually get pretty much everything online now, so it's not for everybody. But if you want to catch shows on their actual air date/time, can't find that one show you want to watch online, have cable without a DVR, or might prefer using your Mac as a DVR, then EyeTV seems like a very elegant, functional solution.
One nice thing about it is that you can get DVR functionality for basic programming without having to pay for cable. With a Mac Mini and Boxee, Hulu, Plex, and other software, you can get almost anything in an extremely functional, beautiful interface, and with an EyeTV, you get DVR functionality for live TV, and all you've done is paid for hardware you now own. None of this $30-50/mo businesss (think about it - 2 years of even cheap $30/mo. cable is already over $700, and you don't even own any hardware to resell, and you're stuck having to continue paying monthly).
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