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| Brand: | Elgato |
| Item Height : | 8 millimetres |
| Item Width: | 16 millimetres |
Technical Details
- Receives digital TV with an antenna ((DVB-T, Freeview)
- The very smallest full-featured DVB-T stick available anywhere
- Does not cover any other ports, even on a MacBook Air or NetBook
- Compatible with Mac and PC, works great with Windows 7 Media Center
- Comes with EyeTV 3 software for Mac, THC software for Windows, EyeTV Remote
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Product Description
EyeTV DTT Deluxe is the very smallest full-featured DVB-T (Freeview) stick available anywhere, for digital television live on your Mac or PC. The perfect fit for any Mac or PC, this amazing TV tuner micro-stick is so small that it slips easily into the USB port of even a MacBook Air without blocking other devices. EyeTV DTT Deluxe delivers sophisticated design and powerful reception in one diminutive device. It features an ultra-portable miniature telescopic aerial with additional aerial connection options to accommodate a range of DTT signal conditions, and comes with an EyeTV Remote.
EyeTV DTT Deluxe comes with EyeTV 3, the award-winning TV software for Mac. Watch, pause, and rewind live TV – at your desk or from the comfort of your sofa. Search the Program Guide and record one show or an entire TV series. Edit your recordings, and share them with other Macs on your local network. EyeTV 3 can even export your TV shows to iTunes automatically for playback on your iPhone or iPad.
EyeTV DTT Deluxe is compatible with Windows 7 and works great with Windows Media Center. The included THC software for Windows supports many of the same features that are offered by the Mac TV software, EyeTV 3.
Product Description
Elgato EyeTV DTT Deluxe Freeview Multilingual MacWin 1DL108101001 EyeTV DTT Deluxe
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
This is mostly, a very fine product indeed with a few caveats.
I won't bore you with the good stuff: the manufacture can do that. I'll tell you the gotchas instead.
1/. The miniature coaxial connector is appallingly weak and fractured after 7 months simply due to the weight of (full sized) coax hanging off it. Let me explain. You get a teeny coax connector plus an adapter to match it to stock 75 ohm Belling Lee type connectors. I use these and so will you if you aren't parked under a transmitter as the supplied aerial is essentially useless except in very high signal areas. The cable is heavy. The dongle plus adapter is light, but may be plugged into your MAC with the cable hanging off. DO NOT USE IT THIS WAY. The only reliable way is to connect the adapter to the dongle and the TV aerial cable and tape the lot together to take the strain of the weeny socket and then use a short USB cable so you can tape the whole lot down to a piece of wood or the desk or something so that no strain goes on that accursed connector.
THEN you wont have to phone up amazon and get a replacement unit ...
2/. the nightmare that is the Great Digital Switchover is NOT handled well by the software. I ended up actually having to manually retune to the new stations (key in the actual frequency which is not easy to find on the web) and then it will correctly discover the stations on the mux on that frequency. Then delete all the channels on the now non working frequency. Auto rescan didn't work for me. Not with channel and a quarter frequencies that are in use during transition. It did find things correctly when first installed though, so if you buy post the completion of the switchover all should be well.
3/. Beware if you do as I did, and put the recordings directory on a networked drive (so we can share the recordings amongst machines) yes, it works, but not if for whatever reason the drive is not mounted: Then its just sulks and doesn't tell you why.
4/. The online program information sources are a waste of time and money and you have to manually reconfigure to pick up the 'on air' program details.
5/. Sometimes it simply wont work for us. I think this may be overheating in the old G5 its on here, messing with the USB, but its not uncommon in our old machine to have to reboot to get it to play ball. I cant honestly say that this is the fault of the package tho.
What's good? It works on a mac, it's not impossibly expensive and mostly it works pretty well. Beware its quirks and physical fragility though.
I won't bore you with the good stuff: the manufacture can do that. I'll tell you the gotchas instead.
1/. The miniature coaxial connector is appallingly weak and fractured after 7 months simply due to the weight of (full sized) coax hanging off it. Let me explain. You get a teeny coax connector plus an adapter to match it to stock 75 ohm Belling Lee type connectors. I use these and so will you if you aren't parked under a transmitter as the supplied aerial is essentially useless except in very high signal areas. The cable is heavy. The dongle plus adapter is light, but may be plugged into your MAC with the cable hanging off. DO NOT USE IT THIS WAY. The only reliable way is to connect the adapter to the dongle and the TV aerial cable and tape the lot together to take the strain of the weeny socket and then use a short USB cable so you can tape the whole lot down to a piece of wood or the desk or something so that no strain goes on that accursed connector.
THEN you wont have to phone up amazon and get a replacement unit ...
2/. the nightmare that is the Great Digital Switchover is NOT handled well by the software. I ended up actually having to manually retune to the new stations (key in the actual frequency which is not easy to find on the web) and then it will correctly discover the stations on the mux on that frequency. Then delete all the channels on the now non working frequency. Auto rescan didn't work for me. Not with channel and a quarter frequencies that are in use during transition. It did find things correctly when first installed though, so if you buy post the completion of the switchover all should be well.
3/. Beware if you do as I did, and put the recordings directory on a networked drive (so we can share the recordings amongst machines) yes, it works, but not if for whatever reason the drive is not mounted: Then its just sulks and doesn't tell you why.
4/. The online program information sources are a waste of time and money and you have to manually reconfigure to pick up the 'on air' program details.
5/. Sometimes it simply wont work for us. I think this may be overheating in the old G5 its on here, messing with the USB, but its not uncommon in our old machine to have to reboot to get it to play ball. I cant honestly say that this is the fault of the package tho.
What's good? It works on a mac, it's not impossibly expensive and mostly it works pretty well. Beware its quirks and physical fragility though.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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I purchased this for my daughter while she is at University, for her MacBook Pro. Prior to full digital switchover, the supplied telescopic antennae didn't pick up a single channel - but the other supplied aerial did when placed on the window shelf. Impressively, it picked up all available channels - albeit with some picture break-up.
The second supplied aerial (with ample length cabling) comes complete with a window sucker for mounting on glass. This same aerial also has a magnetic area that fits onto the window sucker. Purely for fun, I attached the magnetic part of the aerial directly onto the heating radiator underneath the window, and, surprisingly, the reception/picture quality was vastly improved.
I should add that there's a supplied adaptor to attach a conventional coax cable to the main usb receiver and standard aerial socket (if one is at hand).
While I fully expect the signal strength with the telescopic aerial to be much better following full digital switchover, meanwhile my Heath Robinson workaround utilising a central heating radiator solves reception problems.
I recommend this product without hesitation.
The second supplied aerial (with ample length cabling) comes complete with a window sucker for mounting on glass. This same aerial also has a magnetic area that fits onto the window sucker. Purely for fun, I attached the magnetic part of the aerial directly onto the heating radiator underneath the window, and, surprisingly, the reception/picture quality was vastly improved.
I should add that there's a supplied adaptor to attach a conventional coax cable to the main usb receiver and standard aerial socket (if one is at hand).
While I fully expect the signal strength with the telescopic aerial to be much better following full digital switchover, meanwhile my Heath Robinson workaround utilising a central heating radiator solves reception problems.
I recommend this product without hesitation.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Wow...what a product! this tiny TV Tuner which is no bigger than a memory stick simply plugged into a usb socket on my iMac and provided me with all Freeview channels. Picture and sound quality is exceptional. I had to use the larger of the 2 aerials provided but this sits on top of the monitor. I can watch and record all the channels using the on screen menu. Brilliant product which is highly recommended!
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