I've just bought myself one of these (click on it to see it bigger): 
It's an EyeTV DTT 'stick' which allows you to watch FreeView on your Mac. You just plug it in a USB port, attach an aerial (tiny portable one supplied) and tune it in. You can then schedule your Mac to record the programs to your hard drive, just like Sky+. You can also pause live TV, etc.
Seems pretty cool so far and I've already set it to record a few programmes using the EPG. I'm using the portable aerial at the moment, and while it's pretty good, I can't get ITV (any channel) or Channel 4. So I'm going to buy myself a cable to plug it into a nearby aerial socket.
I'll let you know how it works out.
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August 4, 2006 | Reply
Make sure you do - I'l follow this with interest.... is there a version which works with a nasty Microsoft laptop?
August 4, 2006 | Reply
No. At least not from Elgato.
Hauppauge has some equivalent stuff and I've heard relatively good things about them. You could try WinTV-PVR-USB2.