Yes, you need an XP machine running the Orb software (http://www.orb.com/get_orb/), with a tuner to access TV. They recommend MCE, but any XP with a hardware MPEG2 tuner should do. Once installed you can then access the XP machine via http://my.orb.com/ by entering your login/password from any internet connected device. Including your Linux box of course, but also your phone for instance. Orb will try to establish a peer to peer connection from that device to your XP machine, will detect the correct player (WMP, Real, 3GP) and connection speed, and then will stream the content of your PC over that device, including liveTV. They also give you access to all your music collection, pictures, etc... And they even have an Add-On section where it looks like you can add pretty much anything.
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Yes, you need an XP machine running the Orb software (http://www.orb.com/get_orb/), with a tuner to access TV. They recommend MCE, but any XP with a hardware MPEG2 tuner should do. Once installed you can then access the XP machine via http://my.orb.com/ by entering your login/password from any internet connected device. Including your Linux box of course, but also your phone for instance. Orb will try to establish a peer to peer connection from that device to your XP machine, will detect the correct player (WMP, Real, 3GP) and connection speed, and then will stream the content of your PC over that device, including liveTV. They also give you access to all your music collection, pictures, etc... And they even have an Add-On section where it looks like you can add pretty much anything.