Slingbox: personal TV streamer over IP
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I recently came across an interesting piece of hardware called Slingbox[^]. The idea is quite simple: you connect a TV signal to a cheap small box, connect this box to your home router, and you can watch home channels and even select them remotely on the net. They don't suppport multicast, but that should not be necessary for personal use. And the box does not even require static IP. They are currently beta-testing PAL version (to support European TV). I feel like buying one when it's released. Since many of us often work away from our homes or motherlands, such box can be a simple opportunity to watch local news, sports or other events. Just wanted to share this. I am not associated with Slingbox :) Вагиф Абилов MCP (Visual C++) Oslo, Norway If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at the enemy, throw one of those small pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think how stupid war is, and while they are thinking, you can throw a real grenade at them. Jack Handey.
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I recently came across an interesting piece of hardware called Slingbox[^]. The idea is quite simple: you connect a TV signal to a cheap small box, connect this box to your home router, and you can watch home channels and even select them remotely on the net. They don't suppport multicast, but that should not be necessary for personal use. And the box does not even require static IP. They are currently beta-testing PAL version (to support European TV). I feel like buying one when it's released. Since many of us often work away from our homes or motherlands, such box can be a simple opportunity to watch local news, sports or other events. Just wanted to share this. I am not associated with Slingbox :) Вагиф Абилов MCP (Visual C++) Oslo, Norway If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at the enemy, throw one of those small pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think how stupid war is, and while they are thinking, you can throw a real grenade at them. Jack Handey.
Cool! I want one! Multicasting would be nice though :|**
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Cool! I want one! Multicasting would be nice though :|**
How xacc.ide transforms text to colored words on the screen
Intel PentuimM (aka Centrino) undervolting**
There is another box with multicasting support from Visionary Solutions. But it costs ca. 4 times as much. On the other hand since such devices have only single tuner, everybody will be watching the same channel, and it is not practical to equip them with multicasting support. Вагиф Абилов MCP (Visual C++) Oslo, Norway If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at the enemy, throw one of those small pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think how stupid war is, and while they are thinking, you can throw a real grenade at them. Jack Handey.
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There is another box with multicasting support from Visionary Solutions. But it costs ca. 4 times as much. On the other hand since such devices have only single tuner, everybody will be watching the same channel, and it is not practical to equip them with multicasting support. Вагиф Абилов MCP (Visual C++) Oslo, Norway If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at the enemy, throw one of those small pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think how stupid war is, and while they are thinking, you can throw a real grenade at them. Jack Handey.
Vagif Abilov wrote:
it is not practical to equip them with multicasting support.
I was referring to IP multicast and not multichannel broadcast. From the site it appears it supports on 1 connection, and that makes it about as powerful as running Windows Media Encoder on a PC.
Vagif Abilov wrote:
There is another box with multicasting support from Visionary Solutions. But it costs ca. 4 times as much.
This @ $250 is already pretty expensive :(**
How xacc.ide transforms text to colored words on the screen
Intel PentuimM (aka Centrino) undervolting**
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I recently came across an interesting piece of hardware called Slingbox[^]. The idea is quite simple: you connect a TV signal to a cheap small box, connect this box to your home router, and you can watch home channels and even select them remotely on the net. They don't suppport multicast, but that should not be necessary for personal use. And the box does not even require static IP. They are currently beta-testing PAL version (to support European TV). I feel like buying one when it's released. Since many of us often work away from our homes or motherlands, such box can be a simple opportunity to watch local news, sports or other events. Just wanted to share this. I am not associated with Slingbox :) Вагиф Абилов MCP (Visual C++) Oslo, Norway If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at the enemy, throw one of those small pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think how stupid war is, and while they are thinking, you can throw a real grenade at them. Jack Handey.
I can't help but imagine how choked the internet is going to get when these things become popular. In the perfect world the broadcasters would cease to "broadcast" at all. Local television stations would turn into local news bureaus. Television program producers would sell direct by posting each episode the moment it was done editing on a site you can "tune" download the second it's published for a small fee. It's crazy when you think about it to have thousands or millions of people streaming video over the internet from their homes when the entire television viewing audience could benefit from a complete video on demand system for all programming.