This PC/Mac tuner’s ability to stream HD satellite TV across a home network is useful, but marred by its erratic WiFi features Elgato already makes a satellite TV tuner called the EyeTV Sat. Turn any computer in your home network into a television and DVR with EyeTV Netstream Sat, a network TV tuner for free-to-view HD satellite TV. Watch crystal clear television in any room, regardless of where the connection to your satellite dish is. Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for Elgato EyeTV Netstream Sat, Network Tuner for Freesat HD, silver for Mac & Windows at Amazon.com. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users.

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.

Encrypted channels are theoretically possible One thing that we learned about SatIP is that, in theory, you could offer encrypted channels over the network, and as long as the receiving box has the right smartcard and conditional access module, you could stream, say, Sky to other boxes in your house. Sky doesn't usually allow this, but as it turns out it has been involved in developing the system. What's more, the SatIP literature also claims that many existing satellite receivers could be upgraded, through software, to be able to use the protocol. Rl100atx pci drivers for mac. Perhaps the future for Sky is one of these boxes connected to a dish, then a simple receiver in every room that allows you to watch Sky. It's a long shot, but it's very interesting to learn that Sky, a fairly rigid firm when it comes to hardware, might have some interesting plans for the next generation of receiver. Quality We found that streams from the Netstream 4Sat were pretty much perfect when viewed on either a mobile device or PC. It's important to note that Android devices can't handle HD streams for some reason, so the box only passes a standard definition feed when you watch an HD channel.

There is nothing 'wrong' with this, however it's just not quite good enough for the money. (Compare with a Humax foxsat box). Thanks for reading.