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TELE-satellite International — The World‘s Largest Digital TV Trade Magazine
— 02-03/2012
— www.TELE-satellite.com
DVB-T via WiFi
Wireless terrestrial reception
at home on your mobile phone,
tablet or desktop PC
Thomas Haring
MAC TV
Modern SmartPhones are
actually portable pocket
mini computers that have
become incredibly power-
ful. And this is the perfect
reason for the designers at
the company Elgato to take
the products from Apple
and put their power to use
in such a way that users can
watch TV on their Smart-
Phones: the Elgato Tivizen
makes it possible to receive
DVB-T on the Apple iPhone,
iPad or the iPod Touch.
But the question is how
do the DVB-T signals get
to the SmartPhone? Blue-
tooth? Unfortunately, it’s
way to slow. A USB 2.0 con-
nection? Yes, it would be
fast enough but who wants
to deal with a tangled web
of cables? There’s only one
other way: WiFi, and that’s
exactly what Elgato decided
to use.
The Elgato box is roughly
twice the size of a cigarette
lighter (92 x 52 x 12mm)
and weighs just about 68g
including the rechargeable
battery. The elegant front
and back reflective covers
are in perfect harmony with
the silver stripe that runs
around the outside of the
Tivizen. It’s easy to recog-
nize the similarities to the
Apple iPhone, but then, why
not?
On the underside of the
Tivizen can be found a mini
USB port hidden behind
a small cap which can be
used to recharge the inter-
nal battery. This also means
that you can use any PC or
MAC to power the Tivizen
through this port. You can
even power it in a car or RV
using a USB car charger.
Unlike the mini USB ca-
ble which is included in
the package, a USB power
supply is not included. Dur-
ing our tests we were able
to determine that a fully
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