eveTV Diversity Update

I mentioned last month that Father Christmas had given me an eveTV Diversity with which I’d be able to watch digital television on my MacBook Pro. I complained about the lack of Dutch channels available via the device and blamed it on the commercialisation of TV via advertising.

Well, the same lack of channels seems to be a problem in the UK. So it seems there’s a problem with the device itself.

My eyeTV setup combines both aerials as one aerial thereby increasing the quality and strength of the signal received. After an exhaustive channel search the setup wizard managed to find a handful of BBC channels, which mimmicked the Dutch case. There was no ITV, no Channel4, nor any of the other digital channels available on FreeView.

So today as an experiment I hooked up the eyeTV to my rooftop aerial. This is £120 of the finest coaxial-based entertainment reception technology on the market.

I ran the eyeTV setup wizard and it found a truckload of channels, including all those from channel4, ITV, and UKTV. Basically the whole FreeView catalogue.

I then hooked up my eyeTV aerials and found out the channels found had disappeared.

So what does this mean ? It means although the eyeTV interface is slick and the tie-in to tvtv is great, the aerials supplied with the unit are rubbish.