Using a tablet/phone as a Digital TV.

I’ve used August products for about 10 years now, from usb freeview tv recivers to WiFi dongles for hifi....so we can stream music straight to my stereo system in my Disco/Bar Garage.....yes I’ve converted my garage, , or rechargeable battery chargers, and all of them still work, and are very easy to use, this may be my next August purchase.....👍🇮🇲

Thanks again for the video, I notice you have the new Ipad. It would be interesting to hear your thoughts on it!

Is that a Smart ForTwo, Mat? I love my electric ForTwo. Are you going to do a review of it?

I recently bought myself one of these - <a href="https://www.silicondust.com/hdhomerun/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.silicondust.com/hdhomerun/</a> It's also an "IP enabled TV tuner" - but geared for home installation. Power and aerial in - RJ45 IP TV out. Main differences are no battery or wifi - but supports HD and has multiple tuners. Big improvement is that you don't need to use the 'official clients', but that it's also compatible with a load of third party platforms. Ones I use are: Android TV (nVidia Shield) - Live TV app instantly picks up on it Plex (although requires you to be on a paid version) - Integrates beautifully. Full PVR functionality (guides, recording, pausing etc), but even more usefully adds the TV into the Plex ecosystem. Can stream, sync, transcode both the live TV and stored programmes to your phone or other plex clients. Doesn't just replace your Tivo-like box, but gives you what is AFAIK the most flexible and free solution out there.

Pretty cool. Wonder if there are some for USA? Might be worth looking in to. I can't get much of anything where I live.

The device seems cool. But wow you get so many over the air channels. I would be lucky to get 20 here.

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can you link to it with a smartwatch and go all Dick Tracey?

I wonder how many digital TV signals can be grabbed out of the air free in the USA. In other words, can this device be used as a very low-cost alternative to Dish and DirecTV? Anyone know? Thanks!

Possibly useful for camping/ caravanning folks.

Did you try the Elgato app for your device?

A most interesting gadget... This is why we subscribe, and why you're the best. And if you had to get sick, better to do so now and be rid of it by Christmas and New Year... being sick during the holidays is the worst. Take care of yourself, Mat.

Nice work as ever. As others have commented, I think the need to use its own network instead of streaming over the existing one would put me off gadgets like this. Hope you're feeling better soon.

Bill - you used to need one to receive Radio broadcasts (1921). It has always been controlled - the radio licence was dropped - but the fee is to permit you to ‘receive’ terrestrial broadcasts, although it is to fund primarily the BBC. Because this has no advertising, it is somewhat endured. In Ireland, they pay a similar licence AND have advertising!

For the trivially minded, that's an MCX connector which seems pretty common on these TV tuners - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCX_connector" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCX_connector</a> (radio hobbyists have discovered that these tuners often make very inexpensive Software Defined Radios - SDRs which is the only reason I have a DVB-T tuner over here in ATSC-land). Yeah, a mag mount antenna is usually a quarter-wavelength long and really would like to be sitting on a ground-plane of some sort so those commenters aren't wrong. I wonder if there are ATSC versions of this? I guess I need to get googling. Sorry to hear you aren't well, Mat. Get well soon!

@10:00 Was any of those other applications free? If so, did you try them with your device? If I would buy this at a store and arrived home to find that I would have to pay for the software to use it, it would go back to the store immediately. Also, forcing the user to switch Wifi networks to use it is a show-stopper. The device should only set up its own Wifi network to let you configure it, and then it should just connect to your house Wifi. And it should have its own app stored on-board, downloadable via the Wifi connection. They could even embed the app in an on-board webserver so you don't need an app and so that it will work on any decent computer that can browse web pages and run scripts. Like a TV with a web browser.

I think some other would-be Techmoan competitors are feeling the pressure, as they have a hard time putting out high quality videos at the rate you do, unless they are big enough to have a staff! You are one of the only first tier youtube channels in content quality, that remains a one man operation, and that in itself is amazing. I am lucky enough to be in perfect health, and I can't imagine putting this quality of youtube videos out at this high frequency! Apparently you are Superman.

I can see this as a great device for a road trip. Put the magnetic antenna on the roof of the car, give the kid(s) a tablet, then watch TV on the long car ride.

Yea, like you I need an external aerial mounted high to receive local channels.

Providing you have a TV licence at home, you are covered for mobile use when using batteries. Plug into the mains and it Xs. Be viewed as a ‘new’ installation. Similarly, Uni students are also fine but will not be covered if the tuner is mains powered. Again. You’d need to be ‘caught’ in the act by a Crapita inspector.

Gang aft a-gley. Is what the best laid plans of mice and men do! Sorry to learn you are under the weather. That looks an interesting little device, and superbly demonstrated as always. I might get one for my daughter who is away at Uni. The comment above from Peter Rogers made me wonder what the tv license implications are in the UK? Obvioulsy it’s fine in your house, but what about when you are out and about, like when you were in your car. Anyhow, get well soon, have a great Christmas and thanks for keeping us amused, informed and entertained again this past year!

Lost In Space in the garden does it for me.

I suspect this would be illegal in the U.S.. About 6 or 7 years ago a company named Aereo ( <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aereo)" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aereo)</a> tried something like this. It was a big ventured-back effort (IAC invested), but it was brought down by litigation as the copyright holders ("Freeview" TV, i.e. over-the-air broadcasters) sued and a judge agreed that "retransmitting" their content over ethernet was a violation of the law. Aereo was actually quite clever. They built a little device that included an actual TV antenna to receive the broadcasts and then retransmit them over ethernet (the internet) to the subscriber. Each subscriber had their own little dedicated device installed in a vast data center.

Some questions raising after viewing the video: is it still the first DVB-T version? Which was canceled in Germany last year and being substituted by DVB-T2 HD (not only T2, as this doesn't support H.265)? All old DVB-T devices where rendered obsolet by this end, which caused much electronic trash. And then while using this TV app, is there any other communication possible? With earlier iOS versions when using WIFI which supports no internet-connection the device was completely deaf. And last: I don't watch linear TV anymore, but I wonder, if the paid TV apps does it better, then this device? Of course, without WIFI you have to use mobile data, which maybe much more expensive.

All my best to you!!

Thanks for the video! Get well soon!

Oh BTW, in the last shot – are the scrolling letters jagged – did the app forget to deinterlace it?

"Siano" in Polish means "hay", so for me it's HayTV. 8^)

Had the current cold for 2 weeks now. And its not bloody shifting. Get well soon!

I wonder if the free EyeTV software would work to save £2.99 on the official app. I have the Elgato EyeTV diversity dongle attached to my iMac. Still working and going strong for the last 10 years.