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!
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 !
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!
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 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.
@@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.
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.
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! 😄
Thank you! The other product I saw connected through the lightning port, which is a problem if i need to charge my ipad while viewing the TV. This mobile tv wifi hotspot solves that problem entirely. Looks great! Keep up the good work.
Love your videos; everything from the content to your stylish manner/dressing, to your pleasant dulcet tone of voice. The music at the end of your videos is so great; slow groove, techy and chill followed by electronic bleeps and blurbs when the "electronic wheel" spells out your name. I instantly recognized these sounds as coming from The Six Million Dollar Man opening sequence when Oscar Goldman is saying "Gentleman, we can rebuild him.". These along with other various technology sound bites, like the sound of an old analog modem connecting to the internet, touch my heart and really give me respect for someone else who appreciates their aesthetics. Cheers mate and good on ya for your love of tech old and new.
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
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.
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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.
@@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.
Hey, great job on that Planet X3 trailer narration. Instantly recognized your voice, got all giddy about another crossover from my two favorite channels.
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.
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.
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.
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'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. ;)
@@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.
I am a long time fan. I watch all of your videos. I have also recently started going back through the years. And watching your past videos. I am an HAM Radio operator as well for the last 15 years. So this is where my experience comes in. That small magnetic antenna would get you a much better signal if you had it magnetized to some kind of cookie sheet. Love your videos, keep up the great work.
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
I have one of these as we have a motorhome (RV) and we wanted to get rid of the bulky TV as we don't watch much but its nice to have now and again. - So we got one of these and use our 10" android tablet as a TV when on our travels. Found it to be great and have received a fair few channels when up the side of a mountain and camping in a valley in the Lake District so well pleased. And the bonus is that when were not using it it packs away in a little tupperware box and weighs next to nothing ( always a useful factor in an RV) and means there is no TV on view in the RV when its parked up - bonus
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.
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. :(
The box (and the device itself) never promised to receive DVB-T in HD format (i.e. DVB-T2), therefore it's no surprise it did not capture any HD channels. The 'HD' marking most likely means that it can upscale SD signals to HD resolution(s).
Here in Norway they have cancelled all analog radio, only DAB radio from now on. First country in the world to do so. But they forgot to build good infrastructure to cover it up in all the tunnels and remote areas. But then we use internet radio to stream radio in our cars. What a development.
Switching off FM for me is nonsense, it's a standard that works well and there is no reason to change. Also it's not something you can change so easily, most usage of FM radio is in cars, and you can't ask people to change all the car radios, even today DAB radio it's an optional in new cars! Also not in all cars it's practical to change the radio, for example cars that have the radio integrated in the dashboard in a non standard form factor, and so on. It's just a stupid thing, that has no sense, and damages the citizens. Another thing that for me has no sense was DVB, why, they made us change to DVB in 2012, and now the EU wants us to change again all the decoders and TVs in the 2020 for DVB-T2, it's nonsense! It would have been better to maintain the analog as a legacy transmission medium for old people that were happy with it (and were angry when they needed do buy a decoder and have to deal with 2 remotes), and for the new generation of TV transmissions point on streaming services. Or satellite, but I don't get why DVB.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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 ;-)
@@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 ;-)
I bought one of these at least 3 years ago. We’ve used it in our camper van and staying places with no tv in the room. I use it with my iPad. When I bought it I was worried that it was expensive and wouldn’t work but it has been great. I use the bigger antenna if I can and have considered buying a bigger one for the camper van but never actually got around to it. The only thing it can’t do is pick up a tv signal from inside a moving car/train. It’s a really good gadget... buy one. Also I’m fairly sure that when I got it AND when the app updated last year I didn’t have to pay. Charging for the app must be a new thing. I’m in the UK but in rural Devon. Some places in Devon/ Cornwall/ South Wales etc have a mobile signal and you can use data to watch RUclips or Netflix or tv but sometimes there is no mobile signal.... 😳 and then being able to watch tv is quite cool!
If you want to broadcast analog wireless TV signals with in your own home you should look at the Standard TVM860 or Blonder Tongue AM60-550 TV modulators. They broadcast over coax but they are strong enough to transmit wireless through an impedance matched antenna. I bought one and now I can watch DVD movies on my Sony Watchman and Panasonic TR-1010P.
I can’t tell you how much I wish you’d done this review in June, before I spent 5 weeks on a narrowboat with never better than sketchy internet connectivity! Ah well. Now I know! Thanks...
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
Would consider for tv in a caravan/motorhome if we didn't already have a portable set. It could connect to the tv and 12v point via USB. Any idea of the WiFi range of the device? It'd cut out the cost of streaming tv when away, plus the weight/space of a tv and laptop.
I rarely use this option but I have FiOS TV at home and their app let's you watch live TV from most channels as long as you have an internet connection.
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I have a couple of August mini pocket sized TV sets, (so phone is not required). One of them has a mini HDMI out socket which I have never tried. Used to take them when I went camping.
@Techmoan I ordered and got it today.. For everyone wondering, it doesn't seem to let more than 1 person use the device at once. Also scanned it with nmap to see if it had some sort of backend but I wasn't able to see anything. I was hoping to change the ssid and settings.
Here in Denmark most TV providers also have an app where you can stream your TV channels. It works over both WiFi and 3G/4G, so you are not just limited to use it at home. We don’t have that many free to air channels, and even those also have a free app you can use to stream their channels.
Have you ever seen one of those normal old tube TVs with the digital TV tuners installed on them, or getting high definition video signal from cable or anything like that? The picture is so much better than old school analog transmissions. To me the picture looks twice as sharp or better sometimes. It makes me wonder how does it look like its higher resolution when the TV only has 1 resolution right? Or is it analog like a monitor so it can support higher resolutions if you give it the signal?
Love your channel and really enjoyed this video - as I do many. One of the things I did notice, as you were scanning channels, is you played a bit of one show that was hosted by Sandi Toksvig. As an American, I found it odd how your show hosts do more than one show at a time. Not very typical here in America. I love Sandi on QI but don't know as much about her as I do her predecessor, Stephen Fry. I know that is completely unrelated to the content of your video, but it was something that stood out and was an added bonus for me. I'll have to look up that show she was on, as I'm becoming a fan of hers as well.
JT Michaelson It's because many of those hosts are employed by the stations or wholesale production companies directly, not by individual shows. Just like news anchors. At least two of the main Top Gear stars from the old team also did other shows. In my country, hosts of programs like Jeopardy and Wheel of fortune often transition to and from other shows during their careers. Not all are good people of cause, Jim Saville and Bill Cosby being notorious examples.
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.
Amazon actually does this using the "recast" basically takes an antannae and converts it into a DVR service with local storage using FireTV boxes/sticks
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.
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is this workable to connect the coaxial bit that comes with this device in to a tv and get free TV channels? Many thanks
@@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
Be interested to sniff at the packets on the wifi end. This must be running some rtsp protocol on the device, so you might able to watch this on desktop/laptop which VLC player
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.
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
Back in the day people used to bring their little Sony WatchMan to baseball and football games so they could hear the commentary and see what was going on better with replays or whatnot. This technology would be huge to implement in stadiums with a simple app to download and these wifi broadcasted TV feeds.
I would really like to see an update on the Epson ET 7700 after a period of extensive use. Since I'm considering buying one, I'd like to know if you bump into any problems later down the road, and how you've found it during this time. I would also like to know if you're still using the screen that you tucked behind your entertainment center for projection. I really enjoy your videos, happy holidays!
And i think HD is for the US where a lot of the channels here are 720p. I would keep a roof arial and hook that up at home, and use the telescoping one when out and about
The problem with no hd channels might be because it doesn't decode H264, One of my older TV from ~2010 doesn't decode the new H264 encoded HD channels (Australia). But slightly newer
Usually cable subscriptions these days come bundled with online TV (at least in my country). I have 70 or so channels that I can watch in the Horizon Go app
Nice ipad. Its prob the last apple product i like ! Looks like a handy device. When you say satalite do you use freesat or sky ? I used to have virgin cable and switched to freesat with a nice high end mutant HD box and the picture quality even on SD is orders of magnitude better i think due to a much better decoder and upscaler in the box. Wondering if you ever noticed anything like that ?
I guess this device uses the sat > ip protocol. If so, there are hundreds of apps and programs you can use with this device. Sat > ip despite its name, is capable of transmitting dvb-c and dvb-t.
I have seen small units that plug into the phone and have a tiny antenna on it. Been thinking about buying one but the setup you have here would probably work better. Can multiple devices use it at the same time?
@@naapalm82 Thinking about it further, I suspect a taxi would be considered a "public place" under TV Licensing legislation - so domestic TV licences wouldn't be sufficient; you'd more likely need a business TV licence; not sure if this can be used to cover vehicles as well as fixed premises.
Unfortunately according to tech specs it is DVB-T / ISDB-T only so it not supports DVB-T2 which is crucial right now. Device is pretty much unusable in a nearest future in some european states as DVB-T has been phased out. For example in Czech republic next year DVB-T TV broadcast will be slowly turned off (switchover take 2 years) in favor of DVB-T2. In UK there is one mux transmitting on DVB-T2 and another one was allocated by Ofcom.
Some years ago, I bought the then Elgato's Eye TV Hybrid receiver, for Mac OS 10. It worked well until 2016. After that, nearly half of the channels changed their format. As a result the receiver just stopped working. Despite being plugged onto the roof antenna, it's unable to catch any channel at all anymore. All of this happened (coincidence ?) after Geniatech bought the former Elgato devices line. Don't know what to do with this Hybrid things, apart from watching the archives.
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.
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
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
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
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!
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.
"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).
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.📺😁
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.
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.
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 RUclipsr Name Here" Comment LOL
@@Ass_Burgers_Syndrome Didn't drink coffee.. Best i can do half awake 😎
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! 😄
Thank you! The other product I saw connected through the lightning port, which is a problem if i need to charge my ipad while viewing the TV. This mobile tv wifi hotspot solves that problem entirely. Looks great! Keep up the good work.
Love your videos; everything from the content to your stylish manner/dressing, to your pleasant dulcet tone of voice. The music at the end of your videos is so great; slow groove, techy and chill followed by electronic bleeps and blurbs when the "electronic wheel" spells out your name. I instantly recognized these sounds as coming from The Six Million Dollar Man opening sequence when Oscar Goldman is saying "Gentleman, we can rebuild him.". These along with other various technology sound bites, like the sound of an old analog modem connecting to the internet, touch my heart and really give me respect for someone else who appreciates their aesthetics. Cheers mate and good on ya for your love of tech old and new.
I don't need any of the products you review, but i sure enjoy watching the reviews :) you're always so thorough in all your videos!
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
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.
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! 😄
Hey, great job on that Planet X3 trailer narration. Instantly recognized your voice, got all giddy about another crossover from my two favorite channels.
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.
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.
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.
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
Love that Matt's Wifi is called "WOPR v2". That wargames reference... Mine is "Subspace Channel"
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.
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
I am a long time fan. I watch all of your videos. I have also recently started going back through the years. And watching your past videos. I am an HAM Radio operator as well for the last 15 years. So this is where my experience comes in. That small magnetic antenna would get you a much better signal if you had it magnetized to some kind of cookie sheet. Love your videos, keep up the great work.
I am watching from St. John’s Newfoundland, just across the pond.
Never mind. I should have watched the entire video before commenting. You tried that. LOL.
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
Is the password to WOPR "Joshua" per chance?
I have one of these as we have a motorhome (RV) and we wanted to get rid of the bulky TV as we don't watch much but its nice to have now and again. - So we got one of these and use our 10" android tablet as a TV when on our travels. Found it to be great and have received a fair few channels when up the side of a mountain and camping in a valley in the Lake District so well pleased. And the bonus is that when were not using it it packs away in a little tupperware box and weighs next to nothing ( always a useful factor in an RV) and means there is no TV on view in the RV when its parked up - bonus
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.
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. :(
The box (and the device itself) never promised to receive DVB-T in HD format (i.e. DVB-T2), therefore it's no surprise it did not capture any HD channels. The 'HD' marking most likely means that it can upscale SD signals to HD resolution(s).
Here in Norway they have cancelled all analog radio, only DAB radio from now on. First country in the world to do so. But they forgot to build good infrastructure to cover it up in all the tunnels and remote areas. But then we use internet radio to stream radio in our cars. What a development.
They were pushing that in the UK too, but have delayed it in part because of those sorts of issues.
Oh, infrastructure is a first part, but what about client devices?
Do you have dab tuners in phones, cars, usual cheap desktop radio?
We use internet streaming in our phones@@anlealanleal3218
I get this, but does goverment support moving into dab?
As i understand being ready is - lots of cheap devices everywhere that ready to work.
Switching off FM for me is nonsense, it's a standard that works well and there is no reason to change.
Also it's not something you can change so easily, most usage of FM radio is in cars, and you can't ask people to change all the car radios, even today DAB radio it's an optional in new cars! Also not in all cars it's practical to change the radio, for example cars that have the radio integrated in the dashboard in a non standard form factor, and so on.
It's just a stupid thing, that has no sense, and damages the citizens. Another thing that for me has no sense was DVB, why, they made us change to DVB in 2012, and now the EU wants us to change again all the decoders and TVs in the 2020 for DVB-T2, it's nonsense! It would have been better to maintain the analog as a legacy transmission medium for old people that were happy with it (and were angry when they needed do buy a decoder and have to deal with 2 remotes), and for the new generation of TV transmissions point on streaming services. Or satellite, but I don't get why DVB.
Merry Christmas 🎄. I am enjoying your channel.
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.
That finder icon at 0:40 looks evil
Pretty neat! I didn't know these things existed. Many thanks.
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.
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!
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.
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.
This is the best good looking app that I've ever seen from manufacturers in China.
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?
Nice little novelty Christmas present!
DVB-T RTL-SDR dongle (RTL2832U) + Android device = Awesomeness...
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 ;-)
I bought one of these at least 3 years ago. We’ve used it in our camper van and staying places with no tv in the room. I use it with my iPad. When I bought it I was worried that it was expensive and wouldn’t work but it has been great. I use the bigger antenna if I can and have considered buying a bigger one for the camper van but never actually got around to it. The only thing it can’t do is pick up a tv signal from inside a moving car/train. It’s a really good gadget... buy one.
Also I’m fairly sure that when I got it AND when the app updated last year I didn’t have to pay. Charging for the app must be a new thing.
I’m in the UK but in rural Devon. Some places in Devon/ Cornwall/ South Wales etc have a mobile signal and you can use data to watch RUclips or Netflix or tv but sometimes there is no mobile signal.... 😳 and then being able to watch tv is quite cool!
And it’s at least £10 less if you buy direct from idaffodil
If you want to broadcast analog wireless TV signals with in your own home you should look at the Standard TVM860 or Blonder Tongue AM60-550 TV modulators. They broadcast over coax but they are strong enough to transmit wireless through an impedance matched antenna. I bought one and now I can watch DVD movies on my Sony Watchman and Panasonic TR-1010P.
I can’t tell you how much I wish you’d done this review in June, before I spent 5 weeks on a narrowboat with never better than sketchy internet connectivity!
Ah well. Now I know!
Thanks...
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 wish there was a version of this for standard atsc singles we don't get dvb here in the US
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
Would consider for tv in a caravan/motorhome if we didn't already have a portable set. It could connect to the tv and 12v point via USB. Any idea of the WiFi range of the device? It'd cut out the cost of streaming tv when away, plus the weight/space of a tv and laptop.
Gotta Love the dreary old British weather!!
Thanks for the Video, and Merry Christmas!!
Mine arrived today, 125 channels, perfect picture on the iPad. Sweet!
I rarely use this option but I have FiOS TV at home and their app let's you watch live TV from most channels as long as you have an internet connection.
I have a couple of August mini pocket sized TV sets, (so phone is not required). One of them has a mini HDMI out socket which I have never tried. Used to take them when I went camping.
I use an hdhomerun to do essentially the same thing, though I run it through Plex and use it as a free broadcast DVR.
@Techmoan I ordered and got it today.. For everyone wondering, it doesn't seem to let more than 1 person use the device at once. Also scanned it with nmap to see if it had some sort of backend but I wasn't able to see anything. I was hoping to change the ssid and settings.
Here in Denmark most TV providers also have an app where you can stream your TV channels. It works over both WiFi and 3G/4G, so you are not just limited to use it at home. We don’t have that many free to air channels, and even those also have a free app you can use to stream their channels.
Have you ever seen one of those normal old tube TVs with the digital TV tuners installed on them, or getting high definition video signal from cable or anything like that? The picture is so much better than old school analog transmissions. To me the picture looks twice as sharp or better sometimes. It makes me wonder how does it look like its higher resolution when the TV only has 1 resolution right? Or is it analog like a monitor so it can support higher resolutions if you give it the signal?
Who needs Saturday morning cartoons when you've got Techmoan :)
Love your channel and really enjoyed this video - as I do many. One of the things I did notice, as you were scanning channels, is you played a bit of one show that was hosted by Sandi Toksvig. As an American, I found it odd how your show hosts do more than one show at a time. Not very typical here in America. I love Sandi on QI but don't know as much about her as I do her predecessor, Stephen Fry.
I know that is completely unrelated to the content of your video, but it was something that stood out and was an added bonus for me. I'll have to look up that show she was on, as I'm becoming a fan of hers as well.
I remember Sandi best work as presenter of children's morning TV show "Number 73" in the eighties :)
JT Michaelson It's because many of those hosts are employed by the stations or wholesale production companies directly, not by individual shows. Just like news anchors. At least two of the main Top Gear stars from the old team also did other shows. In my country, hosts of programs like Jeopardy and Wheel of fortune often transition to and from other shows during their careers. Not all are good people of cause, Jim Saville and Bill Cosby being notorious examples.
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.
Being a WiFi device , can more than one user connect at the same time and can they watch different channels ?
Amazon actually does this using the "recast" basically takes an antannae and converts it into a DVR service with local storage using FireTV boxes/sticks
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.
is this workable to connect the coaxial bit that comes with this device in to a tv and get free TV channels?
Many thanks
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
Be interested to sniff at the packets on the wifi end. This must be running some rtsp protocol on the device, so you might able to watch this on desktop/laptop which VLC player
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.
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
How well would this work on a car trip while moving? Could be something nice for a passenger to do.
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.
Back in the day people used to bring their little Sony WatchMan to baseball and football games so they could hear the commentary and see what was going on better with replays or whatnot. This technology would be huge to implement in stadiums with a simple app to download and these wifi broadcasted TV feeds.
I would really like to see an update on the Epson ET 7700 after a period of extensive use. Since I'm considering buying one, I'd like to know if you bump into any problems later down the road, and how you've found it during this time. I would also like to know if you're still using the screen that you tucked behind your entertainment center for projection. I really enjoy your videos, happy holidays!
Don't know why this was in my recommended but I'm glad i clicked.
What aerial do you use for your house TV? 127 channels is great!
They switched off DVB-T last year here in germany^^
So you can only watch TV over satellite or cable?
@@Tomanista and dvb-t2
What a cool little gizmo. Kind of a little brother to the Silicone Dust networked receivers?
It has been a few years how 'bout a revisit to this
I can't find that device on Amazon US or Amazon UK today (February 2021). It might be no more. :/
Isn't UK moving to DVB-T2 like most continental Europe? Here in Netherlands the transition has started now.
This would be great in a car or 18 Wheeler and some camper/ RV's if you live in a bigger city area Would it work with a smart TV?
And i think HD is for the US where a lot of the channels here are 720p.
I would keep a roof arial and hook that up at home, and use the telescoping one when out and about
Escape to the Country is on in Canada on Gusto Tv...ch. 26 on my local cable system.
The problem with no hd channels might be because it doesn't decode H264, One of my older TV from ~2010 doesn't decode the new H264 encoded HD channels (Australia). But slightly newer
Usually cable subscriptions these days come bundled with online TV (at least in my country). I have 70 or so channels that I can watch in the Horizon Go app
Nice ipad. Its prob the last apple product i like !
Looks like a handy device. When you say satalite do you use freesat or sky ? I used to have virgin cable and switched to freesat with a nice high end mutant HD box and the picture quality even on SD is orders of magnitude better i think due to a much better decoder and upscaler in the box. Wondering if you ever noticed anything like that ?
Try the hdhomerun devices I use the prime model with my cable. It's amazing!
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 guess this device uses the sat > ip protocol. If so, there are hundreds of apps and programs you can use with this device. Sat > ip despite its name, is capable of transmitting dvb-c and dvb-t.
Were the ‘other things’ you were looking for on Amazon snazzy shirts and jackets, per chance?
I have seen small units that plug into the phone and have a tiny antenna on it. Been thinking about buying one but the setup you have here would probably work better. Can multiple devices use it at the same time?
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
I see this being most useful for taxi cabs or ride sharing service vehicles.
Neat idea.
Assuming the company can justify paying £150 per vehicle, per year for a TV Licence.
gwishart Yikes! Here in America, there is no tax on tv ownership. But I think it could still work, perhaps.
@@naapalm82
Thinking about it further, I suspect a taxi would be considered a "public place" under TV Licensing legislation - so domestic TV licences wouldn't be sufficient; you'd more likely need a business TV licence; not sure if this can be used to cover vehicles as well as fixed premises.
@Techmoan, is this your new car, what is it? It's not a mini right?
Unfortunately according to tech specs it is DVB-T / ISDB-T only so it not supports DVB-T2 which is crucial right now. Device is pretty much unusable in a nearest future in some european states as DVB-T has been phased out. For example in Czech republic next year DVB-T TV broadcast will be slowly turned off (switchover take 2 years) in favor of DVB-T2. In UK there is one mux transmitting on DVB-T2 and another one was allocated by Ofcom.
Some years ago, I bought the then Elgato's Eye TV Hybrid receiver, for Mac OS 10. It worked well until 2016. After that, nearly half of the channels changed their format. As a result the receiver just stopped working. Despite being plugged onto the roof antenna, it's unable to catch any channel at all anymore. All of this happened (coincidence ?) after Geniatech bought the former Elgato devices line. Don't know what to do with this Hybrid things, apart from watching the archives.
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