Also, coverage is limited.Īlso, unlike actual terrestrial digital television broadcasts, Dyle isn't showing you the full channel lineup of any given channel. If you tried to tune in to the football game last night you couldn't - it was blocked. It's the service that will leave you scratching your head.Īccording to its site, Dyle is "the creation of Mobile Content Venture (MCV) - formed by major broadcasting groups." Unfortunately those major groups wound up only agreeing to broadcast Fox and NBC programming. This is just to charge the EyeTV Mobile, for reasons slightly unclear to me.īut as I said, the hardware is great. Unfortunately this USB port is not able to charge your iOS device at the same time, so forget about pass-through charging.
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You can also plug in to USB, and apparently the accessory contains a small battery (although I was able to watch TV without it showing much of a charge). You're able to attach a small antenna (seen in the picture above) or add a more substantial one (included) with a magnetic base. The 30-pin accessory (at the time I was sent the review unit the Lightning connector was brand-new) allows you to tune in programming. If you want broadcast TV on your iDevice, Dyle is only going to take you so far.Įlgato's hardware is great.
It appears to be an experiment by a consortium of broadcasters, and there's no telling if it will last. Unfortunately the Dyle service, which is tied to the hardware I'm reviewing, has no history of success. Here I'll review an odd duck, a digital TV tuner called EyeTV Mobile, but it's only for a TV service called Dyle. As hardware has gotten better, Elgato's offerings have been able to pump out HD signals to your Mac or iOS device. Elgato has been making video hardware for a number of years, and typically I've found the offerings to be as good as any given consumer would need.
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