[Cialug] HDHomeRun

[david l goodrich]

On Fri, April 27, 2007 9:34 am, David Champion wrote:
> 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.

That's a good point, and I should note that I was watching 4:3 640x480
video, not HDTV.
  --david