Here are a couple of devices you can use:
- Sling Media Slingbox PRO-HD allows to watch and control your live and recorded TV on your laptop or desktop (supports Windows XP/Vista and Mac). And allows to watch and control your TV on your mobile phone (supports Android, iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Symbian or Palm OS-based mobile devices). Supports high-definition video in the home or over the Internet - requires at least 1.5 Mbps upload speed. Multiple inputs for connections to up to 3 devices, such as a DVR, cable set top box, satellite receiver or DVD player. Built-in ATSC/NTSC/QAM tuner. No monthly fees!
- Hava Platinum HDTV Placeshifting DVR/PVR allows you to watch and control your live home TV from anywhere in the world on a broadband connected PC or cell phone. Record TV programs to your PC hard disk locally or remotely. No monthly fees!
I have owned a Slingbox PRO for over a year, and was fairly happy with it ... until I got the Hava Platinum HD. Not only does Hava have a better picture than Slingbox, it also has more features, and is less expensive. Those additional features include being able to watch a program over more than one computer at a time, plus a feature that essentially turns your computer into a DVR with DVD copying capability. This DVR capability provides independent control to each computer to pause, stop or fast forward the video...and it gets around the time delay of having to send those type of commands to a DVR cable box using the Hava virtual remote control. Or, you can simply copy the video onto your hard drive, watch it later ... or copy it onto a DVD, making Hava much more versatile than the Slingbox.
Of course Hava does not display a true HD video...HD is converted to a wide screen 480i format, just like that on a commercial DVD, and the resulting video has a quality close to that of a DVD.
05-28-2011, 11:58 AM
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