WiFi Digital TV tuner for tablet/phone - REVIEW
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- A look at a pocket TV Tuner which receives Freeview and transmits it via WiFi to a smartphone or tablet.
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Note: The free eye TV app will not work with this:
The EyeTV version of the app is free - but the EyeTV app looks for a WiFi network with a name like "Eye TV W 000612" but since my TV device transmits the WiFi name "Meron_320029" the EyeTV app won’t recognise it. So the choice is to pay £20 more and get a free app or pay £20 less then buy a £2.99 app. Or - don’t bother doing any of this. Perhaps go for a nice walk or something.
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For the international crowd, free TV in the US is often called OTA (Over the air). I have a Hauppauge WinTV device that is actually a "hybrid" unit, capable of receiving the old analog OTA NTSC, The newer ATSC OTA as well as SDTV RCA inputs. It is a USB "stick" that (like yours) came with a tiny telescopic antenna. It allows recording to my PC's HDD. (I bought this specifically for the RCA cable input and recording function to digitize whatever VHS,Beta or 8mm tape comes my way nowadays.) I often use it to watch the local news in a window on my PC (No internet bandwidth used!). It's name obviously implies a Windows only device. An Android version would be cool.
I love gadgets like this and always have!
Reminds me of the TV Tuner I had on my SEGA Game Gear in the early 90's.📺😁
Here in Brazil, many budget and mid-range smartphones from Samsung, LG and Motorola have broadcast TV receptors built-in. We use the ISDB-T standard over here and it works pretty well. Great video, as always, by the way. Love your channel!
@@SWalkerTTU Most smartphones (if not all) these days have Full Seg reception, actually.
@@SWalkerTTU They had a little lucky. didn't change anything, the 1 seg format, it's the same in Brazil and Japan.
The problem in Brazil is that, even after DTV, the programmings is mostly awful. One so so network and the rest is crap moat of the time.
On Low and Average range telephones, you must have a digital tuner as an obligation, as well as the charger and the FM radio
A Chinese wifi thing that uses a sketchy app! Awesome!
and that's not free
I use chinese products everyday, my PC is most likely made by foxcom.
Haha, I love this how every chinese thing is spying on you :D Bet the iPhone is actually reporting back to the Communist party HQ, your smart kitchen appliances already send back every single bit of behavioral data, they know when you piss, shit and what you eat, probably know your health better than you, just ask them if you are going to have a stroke in the near future :D Basically anything made in or near China is getting data is what you say... Sheesh.... Those pesky Chinese farmers!4!!4
Add the words "dodgy" and "Poundland", add a teardown, and you will have a bigclivedotcom video. This comment was written on a sketchy Chinese mobile phone.
I'm not that worried when I can download an app from the play store, but I've had devices that tell you to download the app from some random website which makes it really sketchy.
Just received mine and it was just as simple as you said. Difference though is that qr code went to app named 'August 405'. This was free. I've installed on 2 ipads and 1 android phone. No problems but needed stick-on aerial to get any channels (inside house). May have missed it in your video but able to pause and rewind live tv, as well as recording.
Really pleased so far. Will test when parked in car with magnetic aerial on roof. Just like unmarked police car! 😄
This kind of device works better in big cities: living in a city of 400k inhabitants in France, performance is OK and I remember the times I used to watch TV in the bus.
For better results, it is wiser to search thet channels with a standard antenna, and then use the other aerials in order to go outside.
I also used this device (Well, more precisely, the ElGato/Geniatech EyeTV Micro) in Spain, and reception is even better.
But in big cities you have TVs everywhere as well as WiFi. Free OTA channels also offer free internet streams, both on-demand and live, with the added bonus the advertisements are replaced with static images for the duration.
And regular USB stick tuners you can plug into a laptop or desktop computer are cheaper and run on free software, as well as being already supported by third party software.
Meanwhile far from cities you need a big old "fixed" antenna, at which point just use a regular TV.
If you want to watch some content on a tablet while away from WiFi, just preload some beforehand. A 32 GB mSD card is cheaper and will hold more hours of video that the battery of this device will last. A USB hard disk of a similar price will do you for weeks.
If you need access to newscasts, use a (dirt cheap) radio.
This device is a solution looking for a problem.
Wow, 127 free-to-air channels?! I was already surprised when you had gotten 35 channels! Here in the US you're lucky to get the four major networks plus a couple subchannels, so like 20-30 channels at the most. And that's only if you happen to pick up multiple markets.
Yeah, it seems like the UK invested more in their digital television platform (Freeview).
To get the same number of channels Freeview has in the U.S, you would need a cable/satellite TV subscription.
Well duh, that's because a huge majority of those channels on Freeview are in standard definition only (with the picture quality being dreadful), with only about 7 HD channels. Whereas in the US, you get a far greater selection of channels available in 720p or 1080p over the air. The UK has got quantity, sure, but no quality.
I have a Raspberry Pi and bought a "Freeview" or OTA Geniatech Mygica USB adapter, installed libreeelec with tvheadend and I can see full HDTV on my pi and all my phones/tablets and computers with VLC (often many devices at the same time) as long as I have range to my main router, the advantage is that I could open a port in my router and watch TV from anywhere in the world. And of course you could use a computer instead of a Pi but the Pi uses very little energy so you can leave it ON 24/7. Other advantage is that I can use my roof antenna (yes I still have one haha) so I get more channels.
It's great if you live close to a major city. But out in the country, you need an outside antenna up about 15 feet or more high.
I have dtv tuner, here in the Philippines I brought Pixel ISBT-T dtv tuner from Cherry Mobile store 2 years ago it looks like the receiver that you reviewed and using wifi.
Another is ISBT-T DTV tuner is from MyPhone it is DTV Dongle from the word itself dongle it plugs directly in via micro usb port to your mobile phone.
Both of them are good receiver but I mostly preferred DTV tuner that using wifi because you can put external/outdoor antenna into the DTV tuner and because of that you can receive more channels and you can place the tuner in any part of your house as long as you can reach the wifi signal from DTV wifi tuner... Another advantage is you can charge independently the DTV tuner and also the phone.
You're costing me money - again!
Just picked this up on eBay for £25.46. Advertised at £29.99 but 15% discount applied at checkout. Also, it's supposed to be shipping from UK.
Great channel
So, I get the appeal for this.... butttt
If you were looking for something like this, get an HDHomeRun. Plenty of people on YT recommend it (just search for it) and it comes in a standard model, a model that accepts a CableCARD (intended to replace a cable box), and a "Extend" model that has different codecs to make it work better on WiFi. While it dosen't broadcast on its own Wifi it's intended to just be plugged into your existing router/wifi access point via Ethernet and that solution works well. It has Plex and Kodi addons and its own desktop and mobile apps.
The only appeal personally that I can see for this is that it has a battery and is therefore portable (since to use an HDHomeRun outside of home you'd need alot of mobile data)
This is the exact type of gadget I've been looking for. I Just wish THE app was not NECESSARY, free and available for DVD players and computers ETC
I bought around 3 years ago a similar device. It is basically the same thing but in a different package. It is called Azumi TV, the app it uses is the same from Siano but it is free on Android.
The hardware comes from a company called Siano Mobile Silicon and they make digital tuners for laptops.
Mine works with the ISDB-T standard and it is HD capable. I recall watching the olympics years ago in 1080i on my tablet.
Haven't used it since as the reception is poor, same as battery life and for some reason it does not pick up all the ISDB-T channels we have broadcasting where I live.
I just noticed that the app I used back in the day (Siano TV, the free one by Siano Mobile Silicon) has been pulled from the Play Store, and has been replaced by SianoTV HD by Geniatech, a paid app.
Maybe try downloading the Siano TV apk and try it on android.
I'm a 52-year-old and even I have little patience on normal television. .... I prefer Stream Netflix/youtube. Haven't watched normal television in three years
Issie same here, in fact, within the last 4 or so years, I have stopped watching TV, granted, I still watched a little bit of TV after 2014. But, in the last few months, I haven't touched the TV remote for broadcast TV in a few months now.
Ditto as well. The last thing I really watched on TV was Doctor Who on BBC America. Now that's on Amazon so no more TV for me. Can even watch the latest eps with a VPN and BBC iPlayer. ;)
I like live TV and streaming services.
@@PongoXBongo What VPN service do you use? BBC seems to block every one that I use after about one or two uses, which is a shame as I am a HUGE Doctor Who fan and do NOT wish to buy a cable subscription just so I can use the BBC America app...
That said, streaming is pretty much the way I go nowadays, if I wish to watch something on my TV at home, I use my Chromecast along with my smartphone to stream content straight to it. I HIGHLY recommend giving BritBox a try for Classic Doctor Who, the app sadly has none of the modern series but it was developed as a collaboration between BBC and ITV to provide worldwide access to both networks' back catalogues, allowing me to bingewatch Classic Who to my heart's content! 😊😊😊😊
@@christopheralthouse6378 I use NordVPN. Creating an account with the BBC requires a television license (just click "yes" when asked if you have, they don't actually check) and a local UK street address (I just used 21b Baker Street). Seems their iPlayer downloader doesn't work though, but that's optional and won't affect streaming from their website. Granted I haven't used it too extensively for this purpose (couple of binge sessions), so maybe I just got lucky.
Excellent, I was looking for a device to enable me to watch Eastenders while driving. Literally EVERYTHING will be just fine.
Wow... Took me a while to actually register this as a joke. Good job.
What a cool little gizmo. Kind of a little brother to the Silicone Dust networked receivers?
We haven't had any tv (cable, sat, or ota) for about 10 years. But last month the entire world (Camp Fire in No. California) burned down around in our area. I would have loved to have a device such as this to get local news information during the fire event. Too bad only android and iphone devices are supported it would be nice to have an app for windows as well.
Try the hdhomerun devices I use the prime model with my cable. It's amazing!
You sound like James May!! Yay Captain Slow!!!!
Interesting. I have a My Gica TV tuner that plugs into type-c Android phones and tablets and puts the signal on the screen without WiFi. The app is free in the Android app store and the device was only $25. It works great and is very compact. It is made by the same company that made the product in this video.
At home I use a dvbc tuner connected to a raspberry pi with VDR/vnsi. It's awesome when used with Kodi as a client. Bye bye coaxial in-home cables.
An alternative: if you have an Xbox One with the official digital TV tuner, you can stream your xbox screen (and thus the over-the-air television signal) to your desktop/laptop/tablet running Windows 10 using the Win10 xbox app. It's a bit less flexible (annoying to control and won't work on iOS and Android) but some people might already own these devices and can try it out without buying anything.
I have this device i got it 3 years ago and use it in my caravan when i'm away on holiday it is the best thing ever for what you get it's great, also check out the card for DTV from raspberry pi that was released in the last few months.
This would be good for camping or something
Was intrigued for a minute, then I realised DVB-T on MPEG-2/h264 is already history here in germany.
The last programs were turned off in November 2018.
So it runs on borrowed time in th UK too?
Maybe you are really a bit late to the game ;-)
Mate. In terms of most things in technology, compared to the Germans we are always a little late to the game.
What's the standard there now then?
@@TheRestartPoint DVB-T2
@@TheRestartPoint DVB-T2 with h265
@@amorembalming Sorry got you comment a little slower sice I still (for 12 years now) only have 50MBit in the middle of Berlin!
Internet wise we are not late to the game, we are playing in a diffrent league ;-)
I think all the private TV stations pushed to switch to DVB-T2 since the coukd encrypt it then and make some extra money.
Also the 700Mhz Band was sold to mobile carriers. And when there is money to make, the innovations roll ;-)
would be interesting to see one of these on a network analyser
Bought one of these only to find that the software only works with the latest version of Android (apparently). As you say in the video, without the software support this is completely useless.
I bought this for my motorhome/tablet. I can get a new TV for £99. My phone works just fine as a phone
Exactly. That's just what I'm doing. It's important for people to know that while the receiver might be cheaper than a TV, if the software doesn't support your kit, it''s a waste of money. Also, I've since read reviews that suggest software updates are not backwards compatible so it may work now but might not tomorrow.
This device came out in 2015, so I'm sure it works on any OS from that time.
The issue is not the device it's the software which gets updated
That pretty much kills any interest I had. Even if I had the latest Android, there's no way I'm buying from a company that breaks the previous OS when the new one comes out. That's just horrible design.
What you do is look at the market share, and pick the lowest version that is still used by significant numbers of people that you can properly support.
I mean, only around 22% of Anrdoid users use 8.0 or 8.1 (Oreo). The highest Android I would require is 6.0, giving about 75% of users. And, if I could, I'd go down to 4.4, giving us 96.5% of Android users.
And it's not that hard: Google makes it easy by providing tons of stuff to help you with backward compatibility.
3:11 - Yeah... using wifi is crap. If I have an ipad, I can't use the internet AND this thing. I wish it would use bluetooth. Sending video / data packets over bluetooth has been a thing for awhile. And I believe the iphone 5 has a fast enough bluetooth module for the broadcast video resolution.
"This would be interesting to set up at work or elsewhere with a transmitter."
*looks up transmitters*
"Oh I can just get a wireless HDMI extender. Nevermind."
The other missing channels are probably using the DVB-T2 standard. DVB-T tuners can't pick up DVB-T2 multiplexes.
Lost in Space season one is real good but it increasingly became a joke after that, maybe with the exception of a few episodes.
What a cock you are
While I agree, I still liked the later seasons for their campy nature regardless.
@@CommodoreFan64 dont you get it? He only mentioned it in that round about way to show he knrw what it was without looking like a know it all. Guess he didnt count on a man like me to be reading
john smith I don’t understand why you say that.
@@aussie8114 come come dont play the innocent the cats out of the bag
Never knew these existed, might be handy for work but I'd probably rarely use it, maybe if it was half the price I'd think about it.
Amazon makes a similar device. It's alot more expensive though, like $200 iirc. But it has more features like DVR and multiple tuners so you can multiple people streaming from it and watching different channels at the same time. I've been intrigued by it ever since I saw it, but I couldn't bring myself to actually buy one. Idk if you would, but if you could make a review of that, that would be great.
*Edit
It's called the fire TV recast.
I must say I've been watching your reviews for a long while now and I think you are a very thorough reviewer. Thank you for your great video work! I wonder if you'd be interested in getting into reviewing some of the 3G usb type products that I see on the web (Or 4G etc) I have a car GPS after market from China that works well but I live in Canada and they say the only way for me to get wifi on my car entertainment system is to get one of these usb 4G or 3G where you put a card from a company like Rogers or Bell etc (Wind or whomever) into it and plug it into the usb port. I'm skeptical how ever as I just don't know. I guess I should have spent more than $350 dollars Canadian on my car unit LOL. Thanks again!
I'm envious for how many free DVB channels you can watch in the UK. In The Netherlands it is only the 3 national broadcaster's channels that are free.
Do you not have satellite dishes?
not allowed on this flat :)
They aren't 'free', since you still need to buy a TV Licence - currently £150.50 per year.
Still showing the classic, slightly hammed up, but still enjoyable T.V series ' Lost in space'
Since you can't legally show anything too graphic on British TV before 9pm; the Horror Channel tend to fill up their daytime schedule with American sci-fi and dodgy B-Movies from the CBS back-catalogue.
@@gwishart sounds good
This is a cool curiosity
But function wise, just get a streaming stick or something
Or just download the Pluto TV app
fron the App Store 😉
So, this is basically a cheaper HDHomerun or Octopus NET, with Wifi? Interesting. I wonder if it's possible to use it without the app, and if it's capable of streaming more than one channel (from the same mux) at once. One DVB-T mux is only about 30 Mbit/s, so the wifi bandwidth should not be an issue.
1. Does your smartphone/devices have any internet(via cellular) after connecting to tv's wifi network?
2. We got same idea devices on market, but all of them have same problem: No any dlna and you need some apps, one tuner so you cannot connect few devices and watch channels from different multiplexes. Usually small battery.
3. As for me i moved to vbox xti 3442 devices for freeview. Not so mobile, but its a bit better works for my installation.
I feel like this could go great with the Galaxy View, for those who want a small TV in a tiny dorm room or apartment, and don't mind outdated Android.
It would be nice to find something like BR/DVD player for tablet (which uses WiFi in a similar way to this tuner). Does such product even exist?
I had (in fact I still have) an Elgato EyeTV tuner that you can plug directly by Lightning plug into an iOS device. But this was still for analogue TV and is useless now (like my Sega Game Gear TV Tuner).
how come you have so many digital broadcast channel in UK ? when I was in London last year I was amazed by this , it's like the country is broadcasting a free wireless cable system , I know you have a tv tax to pay however
Were the ‘other things’ you were looking for on Amazon snazzy shirts and jackets, per chance?
Would be very useful in a motorhome or Caravan
To be honest, especially with 5G coming into play, you can just watch TV over the iPlayer. If you're on the move, you can't watch dvb anyways. So I don't see these devices ever acquiring large market share. Also in North America they are thinking of adding digital receivers with the ucoming digital standard to phones. Again, I don't know how it will work if you are on the move. Will it work on a short or large commute, who knows.
I wonder what you think of the SiliconDust products. Similar sort of aim, OTA TV tuner which is network attached. Only difference is it's 100Mbit Ethernet instead of Wi-Fi. I have one and a MythTV on a Raspberry Pi for recording. No special app needed for streaming directly from an HDHomeRun, anything which can stream MPEG-TS will do, such as S.D.'s own app or something generic like VLC.
Guess it depends if you want portability, or if connecting through an existing AP on your home network is enough.
I'm pretty sure this thing does exactly the same thing. The dongle simply tunes to the right frequency, decodes the DVB-T signal and streams the mpeg-ts over WiFi. I bet it'll be fairly simple to find the URLs to play the streams too.
Pretty neat! Don't know that it'd work in the U.S. though.
It won't, the USA decided to adopt a different digital TV broadcasting standard from the rest of the world.
I suppose you can't send the video to a Chromecast or similar device? (Although there are certainly better ways to get over the air channels to a TV.)
I think a better solution all round would be to use Plex with a freeview tuner and the plex app on the mobile device....
is this workable to connect the coaxial bit that comes with this device in to a tv and get free TV channels?
Many thanks
Check you out with the iPad Pro! (I want one of those too).
I find myself watching barely any tv anymore as the advertisements are getting way too prominent... if I do watch TV it's mostly BBC HD which is broadcast here in the netherlands as well, the quality is far greater to be honest...
you can probably receive uk tv and radio transmissions in the netherlands if you have a large aerial. When ive been to france before i can pick up UK FM radio in calais.
Yeah, I agree too manny, I myself have found myself that my usage of TV has simply crumbled since 2014. Prior to then, I use to love watching spongebob, but, like I said, my interest in TV has pretty dropped since then. Plus, there really isn't much on TV over here in the U.S. is pretty much garbage, and I pretty much don't want to really pay for a TV subscription.
You got a tv license?
@@vasili1207 I do.
It works fine without one .... You haven't got a license if your Dutch , don't worry I ain't got one either .....career criminal me never will get one muhahahhahaha
I suggest you include the Amazon US link for US viewers.
They don't ship it to the USA, presumably because it doesn't support ATSC and therefore won't work over there.
I use an app called live net TV it's awesome
Ah, I remember television. A neat piece of retro-tech
Could be good for camping
Thank you for my periodic reminder of why I don't watch broadcast tv any more.
no need, the other people in the house I live in watch TV.
The ads. DEAR GOD THE ADS!!!!
Crazy how random people in thier bedrooms can produce more interesting content than an entire TV company.
127 channels where I live I'm lucky to get 10
Arlen tx?
@@prestoncheapbtheadphoneste3010 Most of them aren't. Freeview has dozens of free channels.
In Poland there are 22 freeview channels in my area
Here in Greece (I'm in a village) we get 7 ANALOG channels and 5 digital channels(the analog ones are privately owned while the digital is state owned)
I get 30 in the US
Here in the Philippines there's a local company selling a tiny little digital receiver for Android devices. It's very cheap at around 6 pounds. It plugs directly in via microusb and uses the little extendable antenna that you showed. Inside the city you can pickup most channels, even indoors. But outside of the city you'll struggle without a big antenna.
I have dtv tuner, here in the Philippines I brought Pixel ISBT-T dtv tuner from Cherry Mobile store 2 years ago it looks like the receiver that you reviewed and using wifi.
Another is ISBT-T DTV tuner is from MyPhone it is DTV Dongle from the word itself dongle it plugs directly in via micro usb port to your mobile phone.
Both of them are good receiver but I mostly preferred DTV tuner that using wifi because you can put external/outdoor antenna into the DTV tuner and because of that you can receive more channels and you can place the tuner in any part of your house as long as you can reach the wifi signal from DTV wifi tuner... Another advantage is you can charge independently the DTV tuner and also the phone.
These small rod aerials only work right next to the transmitter station. Farther out you need a proper UHF quad (ideally with a reflector), which is anything but "mobile".
Also DVB-T parameters can bet optimized for mobile use (few channels, high error correction) or residential use with roof antennas (many channels, low error correction). These parameters are decided and set by the broadcaster and if they do the latter like in the UK, a "mobile TV tuner" is rather pointless, as demonstrated in the video.
"I'm a bit late to this party"
Actually you are unusually early considering what you typically review, it's only from 2015!
I love your channel so much !
It's always fun in the Philippines.
I have a dtv stick that is from ABS-CBN when i scan channels it is all from the gma affordabox
"This item does not ship to the United States."
Damn.
There's no DVB-T broadcasts in the US so there's be little point
I wish we had that kind of broadcast in the US I would buy one.
I can't find an equivalent product for ATSC. Sad :c
Na na na na naaa!
They sell android tuners that work with ATSC if your phone has USB OTG (on the go).
With an analog TV signal, you could at least tune in to weak signals and still watch, even if it was a bit snowy. With digital, you either get the signal or you don't. A weak signal is completely unwatchable (as demonstrated here). Cool video!
I use a Raspberry Pi with two DVB-S USB tuners to do the trick. It's running LibreELEC with the TVheadend server plugin. This makes use of my regular WiFi and copper network. I can watch TV on any device running KODI and it automatically records programs on a NAS. You can use a list of keywords to auto-record.
That sounds seriously cool, but also an utter ballache to set up unless you're a Grade A geek.
@@rich_edwards79 not at all. Just copy the downloaded libreelec image to a SD card, plug it in and start the raspberry. Then find the TVheadend Server in the add-on installation list and activate it. Finally remote access the Raspberry with a browser to access the TVheadend server and start the wizard to scan for channels.
That's all.
@@CC-ke5np You lost me at ...not at all
Even my dad can do it with help by telephone. He's a 76 years old carpenter who doesn't know any English at all. The hardest part was inserting the micro SD card. While he still has all fingers, his thumbs are too stiff to pick up small pieces. He did buy a starter kit with NOOBS pre installed, managed to switch the installer to German and went from there.
5:23 - If only there were a channel called "Flippin 'Eck"!
7:01 someone is tapping on boobs ^^
@@macdaniel6029 better hope his wife doesn't read comments! XD
Vacuous airheads but great tits
sachyriel Wait, WHAT?! I don't recall Techmoan ever getting married to someone
@@macdaniel6029 >>> I had to go back and rewatch -- you're right! 😄
Coffee and Techmoan. What More can i ask 4.. . My days done before it started . So happy.
Agreed. Best morning of my week, waking up to techmoan with my coffee.
Yeah no one ever makes the "Coffee and Insert TH-camr Name Here" Comment LOL
@@Ass_Burgers_Syndrome Didn't drink coffee.. Best i can do half awake 😎
W.O.P.R. Wasn't that the name of the computer in War Games ??
Would you like to play a game?
I'd pee on the routers spark plug if i thought it would do any good.
I think it's been reused in a few movies for the Easter egg Value.
Sure is.
Muddy Ducker damn you got there first
Is the password to WOPR "Joshua" per chance?
DVB-T RTL-SDR dongle (RTL2832U) + Android device = Awesomeness...
wait, you play PUBG Mat?
I'd love to see a Techmoan RTL-SDR video. A lot of interesting things can be done with a cheap DVB-T dongle, outside of its intended use.
I was in Ireland on an exchange internship programme, and I was in the city centre, so I and my colleague liked to play with my RTL-SDR, and we caught a very clean signal from what sounded like a pedestrian crossing. We listened for a good bit, and we figured out the source after we had heard a voice: we were listening to a wireless microphone used by a TV crew conducting interviews.
Not just any DVB-T dongle though, it has to have the RTl2832 chip in it. But they're super easy to find on eBay due to demand. And other places (like rtl-sdr.com or nooelec.com) have versions customised for SDR use.
@@IanTester What's a SDR?
@@cube2fox A software defined radio.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software-defined_radio
@@cube2fox software defined radio you plug a tv dongle into a usb port and the program (lots of them free) converts your pc or android device into an all mode reciever from the old lw mw sw bands to fm vhf and uhf.. sounds like bs but it does work... the cheap dongles have a high noise floor or you can pay1000 usd for professional grade ones.
A few subscription channels 😂😂
mozza4eva I bet he’s subscribed to them all the dirty get!!! 😂😂😂😂
Who pays for "adult" TV channels when we have to Internet?!?
@@IanTester there's porn on the internet? Is that legal? Dirty disgusting. I'm gonna write to my local councillor
@@mrwood4557 yeah, there is, look up porn hub.
I wonder how you subscribe to them and then "receive" them when they are OTA channels.
Love that Matt's Wifi is called "WOPR v2". That wargames reference... Mine is "Subspace Channel"
That finder icon at 0:40 looks evil
Pretty neat! I didn't know these things existed. Many thanks.
Did the Elgato software say it was free and if so did it work with the cheaper tuner?
*There’s a bit more information about this in the video description text box.*
No, it was the same price, did you not rewind to have a look when it was on screen?
i'm betting someone out there knows how to hack those tuners to change their names and passwords
@@HelloKittyFanMan.I'll rewind any damn thing I please, to hell with you language purists you're literally killing me ;)
The app has the SSID of the Wi-Fi network for which it is looking hard-coded into it. But a sufficiently-determined hacker probably could alter the app to look for a different SSID.
I have plenty of Freeview boxes whose firmware is no longer supported, but I don't worry as the standard now seems pretty static...so I wouldn't worry too much about the app losing support.
In fact, my best and now worst box is my YouView Humax (a standardised frontend for Freeview). It has regular updates which usually result in worse performance from the box! If only you could choose the firmware version, I would be happy to step back a year or two to when it was fast AND reliable. :(
Cool device! Sadly, DVB-T is being discontinued here in Belgium. Budget cuts and all that. But it sure looks like you could use it when camping outdours somewhere in the UK!
It would be cool if this could plug into your home Wi-Fi network so you didn't need to connect to it manually everytime, and it would work as long as you were connected to your home Wi-Fi.
Anyone know of anything like this in the US? I’ve recently been staying with my grandmom who has a antenna on her tv and I’ve grown to really like the channels it offers. Would really enjoy being able to do it on my phone.
The security risk with the WiFi is that someone could access any security faults in your phone and then might be able to access your private information. And maybe install a backdoor and then access your home network when you connect to it and then your computer. This wouldn't be an attack towards a specific person but an attack to any open network and any connected device. ALWAYS protect yourself with a password, and throw out any device that can't be protected.
in the netherlands they have "digitenne" digital arial tv. only 4 channels free rest you have to pay butt they are upgrading to HD and all the old recievers will be useless (nice e-waste...) i'm moving to iptv
interesting to see this Mat, I've been using USB based TV Tuners with my mac for ages, and the sole company that made software for tv viewing on macs was indeed Elgato, an Garman/Italian soft-and-hardware company that has moved completely to smarthome and gaming products years ago and selling off the tv products business to the Chinese a few years ago, and what's more, Elgato recently underwent another change and was bought by Corsair for their gaming business, resulting in the smart home segment being spun off into the new EVE Systems company based again in Germany.
Another fun review. Although, it's essentially a box to allow your current phone technology to be twenty years older.
You're not wrong! Now excuse me while I boot up this Game Boy emulator on my phone
i hate when the manufacturers stop supporting their apps. i have a Fitbit i bought in 2015, in my last iOS update, that particular model is no longer supported by iOS, and it is also no longer available in the app store. So effectively i have a plastic battery powered bracelet.
UK? Look up 'sale of goods act' .Items sold must have a reasonable expected life time e.g. you would expect a cd player to die after only a couple of years , so even if outside the manufacturer's warranty , by law the manufacturer (or the uk importer) has to replace it BTDT. The fact that the fitbit itself is still working but has been made obsolete by the manufacturer's actions would not exclude a claim . might be worth a strongly worded letter with threat of small claim court action (cheap for you and expensive for them to defend) . Who knows? might get your money back or an upgrade.
Merry Christmas 🎄. I am enjoying your channel.
Just buy (Geniatech) MyGica T230C2 for just 20$, connect to windows (or linux) and install mediaportal (either as server - so you can watch it on other devices or just client). The T230C2 can work with DVB T1, T2 and with the special software C. Supported codecs are mpeg2, h264, hevc, mp2, aac and ac3 for what i tested. Other programs for watching are also supported because it used BDA protocol.
They switched off DVB-T last year here in germany^^
So you can only watch TV over satellite or cable?
@@Tomanista and dvb-t2
Being a WiFi device , can more than one user connect at the same time and can they watch different channels ?
I can't find that device on Amazon US or Amazon UK today (February 2021). It might be no more. :/
well thats a big disappointment, i thought it was going to be a solution to get modern TV signals on my portable TV's
There are two things I don't understand (not being digitally-minded).
A) Does the Wi-Fi signal of this thing interfere with the Wi-Fi signal from one's internet router? I. e., is another person in the house getting bad internet reception on their laptop if I am in another room powering on this device in order to watch TV on my tablet?
B) If I watch TV on my tablet using this device, I have to choose it as my Wi-Fi source. I assume that I cannot simultaneously be connected to a second Wi-Fi source? So I cannot be connected to the internet at the same time? Not needed often perhaps, but for some people this might be a thing if they want to watch some TV on their tablet while it spends hours updating Windows10 or other flawed software.
I just use HD Homerun with Plex DVR although you are restricted to mobile data and data allowances but it will transcode to lower quality if you tell it to
I would think this would be a great device if it connected via Bluetooth but WiFi? Now that certainly lowers the amount of use you can get out of it!! We can only hope there has been progress in the past 3 years since it came out and maybe there is one available.
This is the best good looking app that I've ever seen from manufacturers in China.
6 years ago i bought aver media EW-310 - micro usb android tv tuner which plugs in to your phones micro usb port and shows digital tv via app (there was included antenna which is tiny, and was included bigger antenna for clipping to the bag) it also has battery inside of it for not draining phones battery and it is tiny less than half box of matches
Neat Device. This device likely would't work in north america at all since it's a DVB-T digital tuner (what most of Europe uses), whereas Canada/US uses ATSC and we would need a different type of digital tuner. ATSC channels always come in the form of a main channel with a subchannel, (example 27-1, 6-2, etc). Sadly, unlike Europe, FTA digital TV is really de-emphasized here by efforts from the Cable/Sat companies. I only get 5 digital OTA ATSC channels here in Winnipeg (800,000+ population). When I visited the UK I noticed how tons of people have outdoor aerials, but in Canada it's kind of un-common. Almost everyone here uses either Cable/Sat and it's been that way at least since the late 1970s. I'm a bit of an outlier, since I have an outdoor aerial but i'm the only one for blocks and blocks. Most people in Canada/US don't even know that there is such a thing as free over-the-air digital TV.
Yeah, there aren't as many devices of this type for ATSC, and those that exist seem to be quite a bit more expensive than the DVB tuners I have seen.
I'm getting the same 5 channels that you are, using a home-made dipole antenna, which is all there is to get locally. There isn't a lot to be gained here with a big rooftop antenna, unless you want to get a *really big* antenna and an amplifier to try to get a couple of channels from North Dakota.
The US has a lot more OTA than Canada does, both in users and how many channels are available.
While most DTV stations in the US carry multiple program streams (usually two or three), Canada prohibits multicasting (with the exception of tiny CFTV Leamington ON). Add to that the fact that the dominant non-government channel is also the cable company, which shut down most of their transmitters to push viewers into subscribing, and we can honestly say that OTA in Canada is hobbled.
Maybe not up there in Winnipeg, but the large markets are another matter entirely. Here in the suburbs of Los Angeles, I can pick up well over 100 digital channels OTA, although eight of them are duplicated. Whether this is a logical duplication (inside the TV) or actually being broadcast on two different frequency bands, I don't know.
That's not entirely true. in the USA most major cities actually have great uncompressed HDTV over the air TV. which has even seen a resurgence since cord cutting had become so common lately. I get great over the air TV at my house in Boston!📺👍
I beg to differ... after a spat with then Time Warner and now Spectrum cable maybe 8 years ago where I actually took them to small claims court and won, by default, $500+ for over billing we ditched cable and never looked back as many have here in the US, NE Ohio specifically.
Their service, the cable companies, withers and the bills simply grow as does the taxes government adds to them. The amount of OTA programming has expanded alarmingly in the last two years and we use Hulu, Amazon, dumped Netflix-it has gone in the toilet, DVD rentals and our local library.
The best thing about OTA programs is all the old reruns we haven't seen in so many years. Terrific. There are two movie channels as well. Excuse my language but fuck cable.
You get real digital tv? I live in the USA and all I get with a tuner is news that’s the reason I pay for cable tv like dish direct tv etc
they make one of these in the usa atsc . tzumi magic tv and i have one and its ok . at work it dose not work but at my house it works . i have to bring it to my friends house to see if it is going to work before i say its hit or miss and when i have my out door church party i am going to test it to.
I have a freeview dongle for my mac, I usually plug the device into the lounge tv aerial to scan. Then I use the little aerial (similar to the larger one that came with your device) to watch tv. I've found that ITV and BBC signals come from different directions where I live.