The stick, or together with the antenna really has a good reception performance. You need the antenna itself in peripheral areas or deprived areas do not even fully undress. I receive here in the Uckermark the signal from Szczecin (Poland) in MPEG4 mode (this can only a few sticks, but important if you want to receive, inter alia, in Eastern Europe DVB-T) and also from MV in MPEG2 mode from Helpterberg.
The software is partly a bit "lazy", but it falls within the ambit. The picture quality in full-screen mode gets me but only a score of 4, in the standard mode 2-3.