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 anyone...)

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 provides... 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 channels...

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 "ugly" 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 ...

Amadeus Paulussen @ 27.06.2006 22:51 CEST
Christian, will you marry me? Just kidding, I fully agree...

Michael Graf @ 29.11.2006 22:37 CEST
Hallo
Hast du die Windows-Version des Sticks gekauft? Es gibt ja zwei Versionen, die eine, die du verlinkt hast und die andere speziell für den Mac:
http://macde.terratec.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1

Ist der Unterschied nur bei der mitgelieferten Sowftware? Kann ich, wenn ich EyeTV besitze den Windows-Stick betreiben?

Vielen Dank für die Antwort
Gruss
Michael

chregu @ 30.11.2006 07:15 CEST
Bei mir gab's damals keine Mac Version :) EyeTV tut also auch mit dem Windows Stick :)