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Get Your Broadcast TV Anywhere
circletimessquare writes "Ken Schaffer, who made his name inventing a wireless microphone and a satellite telephone service, has a new offering called TV2Me. It's basically MPEG-4, improved upon, that allows for what he calls 'best of class' streaming video over a normal broadband connection. Right now, his only clients are rich sports fanatics, but he eventually wants to make his technology as ubiquitous and as essential as TiVo is to some."
As to assigning an IP address to a DVR Box, Sony is promoting it's Location Free TV as being able to stream your TV shows to anyplace on the internet.g /index.shtml?storeId=10001&langId=-1&catalogId=100 01&categoryId=47640
http://www.sonystyle.ca/view/LocationFreeTVLandin
Maybe because it's only being offered in Canada right now they're getting around the MPAA - but what is there to keep someone from setting this up in Canada and running it and accessing from a Wi-Fi hotspot in the Excited States?
The system can be bought at Best Buy (www.bestbuy.ca) in Canada for about $1800 (Cdn) or from Sonystyle.ca directly. It's basically a Small TV set tablet with a 802.11 link to a base station that streams the video to the tablet and even lets you serf the net with a little browser.
Sorry - don't know what operating system they're using - it looks like a custom UNIX setup.
Some of the posters seem to be confused as to what, exactly this does. Now, they all seem to get the TV over IP part. Fine.
You buy the box for $6,500.00 and stick it in your house. Then you go off somewhere, let's say a hotel 3,000 miles away, and log in to your stream.
You don't lug the box around. It stays at home.
You don't "get" the Manchester United game or Moscow TV, unless you already could get them. Reread last sentence. Twice.
If you want to stream ESPN, you must already subscribe to ESPN at home. Reread that sentence, if necessary.
You can stream the local, over-the-air channels you might be missing in whatever God-forsaken hotel room you might find yourself in, for free if they are free at your house. At home.
You can stream the cable, satellite, or whatever you pay for and get at home.
What you don't get:
Any channel you can't get at home, now.
Channels you don't pay for now, if they require you to pay at home.
No, you can't say goodbye to the cable company, tear down the dish, or steal the world's broadcast signals unless you already do steal them.
If you need the local news when you're in Bali, it's a workable solution. If you want 2,000 channels you can't get at home while you're in Bali, you still can't get them.