The Netstream DTT is pricey, and if you're buying purely for personal use, you can get a cheaper, single-client streamer from Sling Media.
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Yet the antenna-only Elgato box delivers much better picture quality that the Pro does. Ditto the £200 Slingbox Pro, which has a tuner of its own and an array of extra video input ports. If you have a Freeview set-top box or DVR, you can network it with a Slingbox Solo for just £130, though you'll only be able to feed one client at a time. Elgato says it will do soon - expect more news on this when the iPad finally debuts over here.Įlgato wants £230 for Netstream DTT, which is a lot. This is because the iPhone app can't yet decode the MPEG 2 stream from the tuner. The Mac-based EyeTV will stream to Elgato's £3 iPhone app, but you need to keep the machine running and is no use if you're a Windows user.
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Harking back to the Slingbox comparison, what I missed with the Netstream was mobile device support. Now, this may be the correct thing to do, so that these playback apps can access whichever tuner NetStream DDT may assign them. WMC and THC both see it as a twin-tuner gadget, and it's too easy to find yourself setting up both tuners, one after the other. If there's only one client, it can make use of both tuners, flipping between them, or using one as a picture-in-picture source.ĮyeTV masks this architecture, and treats NetStream DTT has a single-tuner device. If Client One has already dropped out, that first tuner is assigned to the new user. If Client Three tries to access the box, it can wrest away ownership of a tuner provided the user can key in the correct PIN code.
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Client One gets the first free tuner then Client Two gets the next one. NetStream DTT's two tuners can be accessed separately and are allocated dynamically. It wasn't just that the software was better, but the installation process was smoother and easier. Unsurprisingly, given Elgato's heritage as a Mac developer, the Air experience was by far the superior of the two. Whatever your playback platform, there's a generic web UI too