Fancy sending HD FreeSat channels to the PCs and Macs around your home? How about watching live telly over Wi-Fi on your iPad, without the need for a PC to be powered on to do the heavy lifting?
Satellite TV on any Mac, PC or iPad in your home network – Watch and record free-to-view satellite television on any Mac or PC in the house, in full HD. If your home has an existing Wi-Fi network, you can watch live satellite TV wirelessly on a portable computer anywhere in your home or garden.
EyeTV Netstream Sat enables your entire family to share one TV tuner device, and it delivers a high-definition TV picture to every room. There’s no need to connect a satellite dish and TV tuner dongle to each computer! Simply place EyeTV Netstream Sat near your existing satellite connection and connect it to your router. EyeTV Netstream Sat receives DVB-S2 and streams the TV signal via your Ethernet or home Wi-Fi network.
Highlights
- Stream free-to-view satellite TV (DVB-S2 or Freesat) to the computers on your home network
- Enjoy a crystal clear, high-definition television picture on your computer’s high-resolution display
- Compatible with both Mac and PC
- Watch TV wirelessly on a portable computer or iPad if you have a Wi-Fi network
- Stream live TV over the home network to an iPad – even when your computers are turned off
- As a network device, it does not have to be installed near your computers
EyeTV 3 software for Mac – EyeTV 3 is the world’s leading TV software for Mac. Watch, pause, and rewind live TV on your Mac. Search two weeks of Program Guide listings, and record one show or create Smart Guides to record an entire season. Edit out unwanted content and export recordings automatically to iTunes to sync with Apple devices. An optional app is available to stream live TV to an iPhone, iPod touch & iPad.
Windows Compatibility – EyeTV Netstream DTT works great with Windows 7 Media Center. The included THC software for Windows supports many of the same features that are offered by EyeTV 3 software.
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Though it’s a streaming solution and while the EyeTV software allows you to watch the stream, I’m not sure that it allows you to record it (unlike the EyeTV Sat Free box that directly connects to a Mac).
looks good, and recording looks to be possible (albeit only on the viewing desktops & laptops) …
but it’s a shame they didn’t (IIUC) go the extra mile & give it the ability to deal with more than just the one channel – two with add-on unit – and record locally to attached HD(s) …
especially with people watching on various separate devices quite likely wanting to watch different programmes …
& especially with recording being most useful when people & their individual devices aren’t around …
Haupauge’s WIN TV product does a similar thing http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/site/products/data_novasusb2.html with the latest version of the included software using WinTV Extend to stream to “iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac or PC ” – http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/site/wintv7/index.html, and it’s a lot cheaper.
The Elgato device has the advantage though of being able to plug in a second tuner.
Thanks for the link Chris. Not sure it can do what the Elgato does though – it can live beside your router with just an Ethernet, Sat cable and power connection – serving TV to any computer on your network.
The Hauppauge seems to need to be connected to a computer via USB to work.
One of our readers on the mailing list pointed out that the Elgato can only do SD on its own like this though, it needs to be connected to a computer to stream HD.
M.
Hi all, I’ve got one of these and added a second tuner by plugging in the USB Sat Free. EyeTV installs on your Mac – I have it on a Mini unter the TV, and gives all of the features of the Humax Foxsat pro it replaces. I can watch TV on my iPad either my connecting directly to the Netstream and streaming live TV, or to the Mac to watch live TV / recorded shows.
HD – have been trying to find out, without success, if it will deal with 1080p, as well as 1080i … ? And also with the BBC’s way of mixing the two … (*)
(*) http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/researchanddevelopment/2011/04/software-upgrade-for-bbc-hd-on.shtml