I bought recently a DVB-T USB stick ( this one), which was OS X and Windows compatible (we do have windows boxes at home :) ), although I needed to buy EyeTV, since it only came with Windows software (I knew that before, so I don't blame anyoneā¦)
And EyeTV was worth every penny. Downloading it, plugging in the stick and it basically worked, slick seamless little program, which does the job (of course, there are improvements possible, but which program doesn't).
Then at home, I tried it on the Windows box with PowerCinema. OMG. Besides that it didn't work properly from the start, the UI is one of those manage-everything-with-your-remote and hey-do-your-pictures-and-music-also-with-it thingies (like Frontrow). Inconsistent (and totallly different than the OS) UI, Too many clicks needed to get somewhere, actually very slow, missing features (like switching to the second audio channel for the original language), etc, etc. And Audio and Video still are not synced from time to time. And the tingTerratec itself providesā¦ You need 2 different programs for Digital and Analog, the UI looks like from the early 90ties (of course again very different to what one is used from XP), slow as hell (you never know, if you clicked and should wait, or try again). At least you can switch the audio channelsā¦
Maybe that's in general what makes the difference between OS X and XP, the mostly slick UI of most programs, and that usually OS X developers try to be consistent with the rest of the OS UI. This example was just a perfect one to show the difference (yes, there is of course āuglyā software also available for OSX, it's more an in-general point of view)
And don't get me started with Windows Media Player 10 ā¦