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    News - Elgato EyeTV Netstream DTT tuner brings Freeview to your network

    Network dual tuner connects to your router to stream full-HD digital television to your PCs.
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    Re: News - Elgato EyeTV Netstream DTT tuner brings Freeview to your network

    For that price I'd want:

    * Dual-tuner or at least single DVB-T2
    * Multicast support (not that home networks really support it)
    * Access to the full transport stream
    * Oh and of course for MythTV to support it, which I can't see being a problem provided there's nothing proprietary in how it transports the video stream over the network.
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    Re: News - Elgato EyeTV Netstream DTT tuner brings Freeview to your network

    20quid dual tuner card for each PC, job done.

    Agreed, this is a waste!
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    Re: News - Elgato EyeTV Netstream DTT tuner brings Freeview to your network

    Quote Originally Posted by dangel View Post
    Agreed, this is a waste!
    Especially as all you really have to do is take the data coming out of the decoder and spit it out onto the network. If you use the right tuners they'll even hardware demux for you, so I'm pretty sure a cheap-ish FPGA could get the job done.

    Still I'd be interested to see what they've got inside there.
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    Re: News - Elgato EyeTV Netstream DTT tuner brings Freeview to your network

    Wow at first i was thinking 'genius' but you could probably build a atom system which does the function of this box and a lot more for around the same if not cheaper.

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    Re: News - Elgato EyeTV Netstream DTT tuner brings Freeview to your network

    Good idea, but prohibitively expensive.

    There cant be alot of cutting edge hardware in there to justify that price - for £229 I could build an entire HTPC!

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    Re: News - Elgato EyeTV Netstream DTT tuner brings Freeview to your network

    Ouch at the price tag - that should be sub £100 really.
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    Re: News - Elgato EyeTV Netstream DTT tuner brings Freeview to your network

    Not that it needs someone else to say it, but £229? really?

    divide by 3 at least in my view before it becomes vaguely sensible.

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