After some trial and error, I got the same excellent reception I’m used to when using Elgato equipment. The same flexibility of placing the Netstream ensures that you can get the best possible reception, even with the non-amplified aerial. This was the case with my initial placement. Because you can place the Netstream DTT wherever you want, it’s much easier to place it where the aerial rod (if that’s what you’re using) has a really bad reception. The setup of the device further went as if it were one of the Elgato USB DTT receivers. That was as simple as it gets, and after having changed the IP-address to one my network switch knows about, the Netstream was instantly recognised by the EyeTV software. The first thing I had to do therefore, was to change the IP-address of the Netstream DTT Network Dual Tuner from within Safari. I have a firewall installed and my LAN uses a completely different network mask and IP-address range. The first installation on my system failed, and I immediately knew why: as most network device, the Netstream assumes you’ve set up your LAN with an IP-address in the range of .x. The Netstream can be controlled through the EyeTV software or using a web browser based management interface. Before I reviewed the Netstream, I took one of my own Ethernet cables so that I could place the box in front of me. The bottom reveals a recess for attaching the Netstream to a wall using one big screw. The Netstream DTT Network Dual Tuner is a flat square, rather heavy metal box with an interface for the aerial and for Ethernet at the back. Also in the box are a DTT rod aerial and a s=very short Ethernet cable. Mac users in this case have all the luck: they get EyeTV 3 with the Netstream. Windows users have to be content with a combination of Windows 7 Media Center and Terratec Home Cinema software, which offers “many of the same features as EyeTV 3”, as it says on the box. And now they released a network tuner, the Netstream DTT, which has ‘Dual’ in its name because two Macs can view different TV channels simultaneously.įirst of all, the “ EyeTV Netstream DTT Network Dual Tuner” as it goes through life, works with Windows and with Mac OS X.
Over the course of about a year, Elgato’s USB stick DTT receivers got smaller and more beautifully designed. Elgato’s EyeTV, on the other hand, is an elegant application that gets regular if not frequent updates and new features.
A couple of years back I took a look at the competition and I was not at all impressed by what I saw. Elgato must be the number one expert in digital terrestrial TV solutions.
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