There has been a bit of a buzz going on in the past few days about Migila having lost the Elgato EyeTV software license. It seems something is up as bloggers speculate that Apple may be acquiring Miglia to add hardware that records Free to Air, Cable, and Satellite TV.

I am not too sure that this is the case but it is interesting to read the Miglia website…

Explore a world of creation, imagination and enjoyment by allowing TVMax+ to become your very own TV and Video hub teaming up with Apple TV and your iPod. (Talking about their new software) TVMax+ will provide the content for your Apple TV, that can be wirelessly streamed from your Mac.

Looks to me like the hold up with the release of the AppleTV could have more to do with Miglia or Elgato for that matter and that mysterious USB port on the AppleTV. This having been explained as a service and diagnostics port after questions were asked of Apple.

This device by Miglia is the current form of analogue tuner for partnership with the MacMini. Not much of a future there but this device (the same shape as AppleTV) and multiple Digital HD tuners would be the form that seems logical. Make HD TV broadcasts available to Apple TV through iTunes®. Get all the software to work as one and the digital living room is complete. Apple has 110 million iTunes users and it is the defacto standard Media Centre. The problem has been a simple method of HD TV integration with iTunes, rather than the integration of iTunes with current Windows Media Centre systems. This approach would clear the one big advantage Microsoft has in the digital living room.