You get a year’s subscription with EyeTV, after which you have to pay for it, but you get many more days in the tvtv listing than you do with the DVB listing. Next, decide where you want to get the TV listings from: the guide that each channel broadcasts (marked in EyeTV as DVB), or from the tvtv online service. Then plug the aerial into the stick and get EyeTV to tune in the channels. First, plug the stick into a USB 2.0 port there’s an optional extender you can use, too, if your port is recessed and the stick won’t fit into it.
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In practice, the stick is actually pretty easy to use, thanks to the EyeTV software provided. Still, the enhanced signal strength means I can actually use the stick at home as a personal video recorder, rather than as a stop-gap measure. Since the software works with any Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) service, I imagine if you take this with you on your travels, you’ll experience similar vagaries in other countries. The signal got better (46%) once I switched aerial, meaning I could watch C4, etc (and ABC1), but UK TV History and Film4 are still a bit juddery. Except first, I needed a cable.įortunately, I had one stuck in the back of the TV: it turns out you don’t need to use it if you have a SCART socket. All we needed to do was plug a cable into the aerial socket in the wall to connect to it. We actually have a shared aerial in our block of flats. So if you’re thinking of getting this for a laptop, say, bear in mind that you’re probably not going to be able to get all the channels wherever you use the stick. That gave me about 26% signal and meant I couldn’t watch any of the ITV channels or Channel 4. I started off with the mini-aerial that comes with the stick. Rubbish aerial or rubbish location and you’re just not getting FreeView. Remember, you can click any of these pictures to make them bigger, if you want a better look:Īs with all things FreeView, you’re very much limited by how the quality of the signal reception. I promised I’d let you know how it was working it, so here we go. I bought myself one of those DTT sticks last week.