By an incredible coincidence it has exactly the same problems as the first one. I sent it back to them, they said it must be a one-off faulty unit and sent me another. They show a still picture every ten seconds and an occasionally snippet of glitchy audio. What makes it particularly useless is that NONE of the 50-or-so non-HD channels work at all. I found that a few HD channels work, but they have delayed audio so it's out of sync with the video. Finally this product came out, so I bought it immediately (based on their excellent reputation and my previous experience with them). Like most EyeTV users, for years I've wanted support for HD channels (DVB-T2 in the UK). I already have a very old EyeTV DTT receiver (bought in 2005) which works great for non-HD. EyeTV used to be a great name you could trust, but it's sadly not true anymore. It is plagued by flaws, and there is no effective tech support behind it. I recommend the Silicon Dust HDHomeRun Connect product as an alternative (which is network/ethernet based rather than USB, but can be configured locally if you want to, and also works well with the EyeTV software). The EyeTV software, which I had before buying this product, remains great - it was just this hardware that didn't work out for me. So, sadly, I felt I had to return the item as it simply didn't do what it was supposed to.
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Perhaps there is a hardware or firmware or software fix possible for this problem, or perhaps I got a defective individual item, but I have read of other people with the same issue with this device online. Many of those it did find would only work extremely intermittently, stuttering video a few frames at a time at 'best'.
When I tried to tune it it wouldn't pick up all the channels (both SD and HD) that all my other devices do easily. But whatever I tried, I couldn't get the same signal strength on this device.
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I have a number of older TV tuners, TVs and set-top boxes, all of which get a very good quality and high strength signal from my roof-top aerial. Unfortunately it didn't turn out that way. I have been hoping for a USB Mac / OS X DVB-T2 (UK Freeview HD) solution for a number of years and was hoping this would be a good choice for me. I believe Amazon seems to have mixed the two products reviews on this page (probably due to the confusingly same product name).) (Note: This is a review for the 'new' Elgato EyeTV Hybrid Digital Cable and DTT TV Tuner, not to be confused with the old Hybrid product that had an analogue video-in facility.