[Cialug] HDHomeRun

[David Champion]

Matthew Nuzum wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 16:34 -0500, Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote:
>> I got one a month or two ago. It works great.  Using it for OTA-8VSB
>> reception, don't have cable.  Of course, this being HDTV, you are
>> working with 6-8G of data an hour.  Plus, it takes a pretty good
>> machine
>> (or a slower box with a XvMC-compatible video card) just to play
>> it. 
> 
> Have you tried watching TV via a computer connected with wifi? (802.11g)
> 
> My wife has been asking for the ability to watch live TV in the kitchen
> on her laptop. I'm wondering if this would be a good solution for her
> since it's not much different in price to the USB OTA HD tuners.

Depends on what resolution & encoding you're using. 4:3 640x480 would 
probably be fine. 1080p HD, you would not have enough bandwidth.

-dc