Gizmodo: Miglia

Miglia TVMini HD Express Gives Your Mac Another Take at Slingbox

Haroon Malik — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 14:45:00 EDT

The Miglia TVMini HD Express allows you to enjoy digital TV broadcasts on your Mac, with complete playback control. Retailing at $99, the package also contains The Tube software, which will allow you to take full control of your digital TV experience, by offering a handy UI for organization of recorded content. Interestingly, Miglia has include their own TubeToGo software, which allows a Slingbox type service, enabling you, or your trusted buddies, to tune into your TV via the web and an obligatory, speedy WiFi connection. The TVMini HD Express is available now, and is specific to the US only. [Miglia via 123Macmini]

Miglia's TVMax+ Records For All Your Apple Gear

Jason Chen — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 19:30:29 EDT

Called a "home entertainment hub", this Miglia TVMax+ lets you record your TV shows onto either your iPod, your iPhone, or your AppleTV. It's got coax, composite, and S-Video inputs, as well as an analog TV tuner that supports up to 125 channels.

The best part, in our opinion, is that it can record to DivX as well mpeg suited for DVD format, iPod format, and AppleTV format. The price is a little steep though, at $288, but looks like it's worth it for a quick and easy way to turn your Mac into a DVR. – Jason Chen

Product Page [Miglia via iLounge]

Mac HD DVR on USB: Miglia TVMini HD+

Charlie White — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 11:12:11 EST

The Miglia TVMini HD+ turns your Mac into an HD DVR, plus it can even tune in unencrypted digital cable signals. Plug it into one of your Mac's USB 2.0 ports and you can record 10-bit video and stereo sound from over-the-air HDTV, analog cable and digital cable, too.

It includes a remote control and EyeTV 2 software that gives you DVR features and electronic programming guide as well. Available for pre-order now, it'll be $218, shipping next month. Considering that HD looks better over the air than it does via cable, this versatile unit gives you a choice, delivering the HD goodness however you want. – Charlie White

Product Page [Miglia]

Miglia Dialog Phone: Wireless VoIP for Mac and PC

Charlie White — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 09:57:46 EDT

Miglia has been dabbling in USB and multimedia gear for a while, and now the company jumps into the Internet telephony market with the Dialog Phone, a 2.4GHz wireless handset that connects to your Mac or PC with a USB transmitter. It includes software that integrates the phone with Skype, iChat AV, MSN, Yahoo Messenger and AIM.

Simplicity was the point of the design of the Dialog Phone, with no LCD screen and just a call button and volume control key. It works with Mac and PC, and includes software that lets you scroll through your contacts using the volume control. Use it to call for free anywhere, but first you'll have to pony up a not-so-simple price of $79. – Charlie White

Product page [Miglia, via Bios Magazine]

Teeny, Tiny MicroSound iPod Speakers

Gizloco — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 10:46:30 EDT

As if the iPod needed any more well thought out accessories, the MicroSound enters the fray looking to fill the apparent void in the nano speaker market. MicroSound is the brainchild of Miglia, the same company that makes the TVMax DVR system for the Mac mini. Migilia calls the MicroSound "slim, ultra-light and ultra-modern," which are pretty strong words for a pair of small speakers that—gasp!—integrate with an iPod. Just how small is it, I'm sure you're wondering? The dimensions come in at 2.3x0.7x1.1-inches. Small speakers, just as advertised.

The MicroSound plugs into the headphone jack of the iPod nano (and shuffle), making it "the perfect companion for any outdoor activity." ...So long as that activity lasts about 12 hours, since that's how long the MicroSound will keep playing music on a single AAA battery.

You can grab the MicroSound speakers online for about $30. – Nicholas Deleon

Product Page [Miglia via iLounge]

Miglia Technology TVMax, Mac Mini DVR

Travis Hudson — Tue, 23 May 2006 12:27:54 EDT

Miglia is trying to close the "missing link" of the Mac Mini DVR with the TVMax. The TVMax fits perfectly underneath the Mac Mini. It allows you to watch television and record to MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and even DivX (!!). The TVMax is bundled with EyeTV 2.0 for all of the software functionality needs. It will be available for $249.

For the nitty gritty specs: the TVMax connects via USB 2.0, has an analog tuner that supports up to 125 channels, supports the standard definition resolutions (PAL/NTSC or PAL/SECAM), allows for antenna or direct cable connection and has an external power supply. One of the key features is the ability to capture VHS and Hi8 tapes. What, no Betamax?

Product Page [Miglia]

Miglia EvolutionTV Video Hands-On

johnb — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 15:40:20 EDT

As I mentioned before, I'm cleaning out the office and found something that I've been putting off for far too long. The EvolutionTV by Miglia is a very cool little device. It's essentially a USB TV Tuner/DVR for OS X and it works extremely well. Is it a TiVo replacement? Absolutely not, but would make a great addition to your Mac mini multimedia set-up.

The DVR portion depends on a web-based interface called TitanTV to program recordings. The EvolutionTV also captures a short buffer and allows you to record, fast forward, and rewind live TV. Finally, the latest version allows TitanTV to act as an iChat broadcast system, meaning you can share video feeds etc. over the Internet using the same interface used by the iSight.

The box itself is tres sexy, with brushed aluminum hiding a relatively small circuit board. It requires a separate power supply and USB 2.0 port and encodes in MPEG-2/4 and DivX. The quality is relatively good for standard resolution and as you can see, it's a bit hard to get a signal in a basement using just a long wire. It's trivial to hook up a coaxial cable or S-Video to this thing for better quality.

It comes with a small remote and costs about $$230.

Product Page [Miglia]