[Cialug] HDHomeRun

[Jonathan A. Kollasch]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 09:34:03AM -0500, 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.

Not even 720p or 1080i.  I've only had success with streaming 480i
standard definition over 11g.
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