The Slingbox looks pretty sweet. Plop it atop your TV, and presumably you’ll be able to watch your TV on any computer anywhere via thier proprietary streaming technology. Currently Windows-only, but a Mac version of the player will be coming out this summer.
I’m growing somewhat tired of MythTV… they haven’t updated their website in nearly 8 months and the last major release was over 10 months ago. There are still no decent streaming plugins for it, so although you can watch TV on any computer in the house, you can’t watch it from a coffee shop or anyone else’s house (much less a cell phone)… it needs too much bandwidth. Since I don’t have time to work on a better solution, I may eventually cave in to these commercial options.
Sony has a similar product (http://products.sel.sony.com/locationfreetv/owners/psp.html) that lets me connect my TV, DVD Player, and TiVo (DVR)to it and allows me to view it all over a wireless connection on my PSP (which is awesome).
Comment by Schulte — January 11, 2006 @ 7:11 am
That is cool. I remember when it first came out it was just like a portable TV and everyone said it was a bunch of crap, ( http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/edwardbaig/2004-12-01-baig_x.htm ) but now it looks like they’ve made a box and let you connect lots of stuff to it which is cool. Good to hear it works better now.
Comment by Tom — January 11, 2006 @ 10:32 am
I don’t like the word plop.
Comment by womanofthelaw — January 17, 2006 @ 5:51 pm