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| Junior Member  Posts: 26 Join Date: Apr 2009 |  Wireless TV tuner? -
11-10-2009, 02:28 PM
When I was in the process of shopping for netbooks, I noticed they were being sold with TV tuners. I am a long time gadget-freak, and I've been using TV tuners on my desktop machines for years........but the concept of buying a TV tuner for a mobile device kinda baffles me. They stopped broadcasting over the air, so that kind of functionality would be useless. Assuming you wanted to connect the tuner into a coax socket in your home (or directly to a STB), it would eliminate the mobile-aspect of the netbook since you are now physically tethered by the cable. Ideally, you'd like to be able to watch TV on the netbook from your front porch (or something) right? Since I already have a TV tuner in one of my desktops, my solution is to simply stream it over the wireless network using "windows media encoder". I can take my Mini 10v outside, and watch TV from my hammock 100 feet from my house in the back yard. The video looks awesome. I think the only disadvantage is that I have to walk inside the house to change channels (or put the STB in a window and carry the remote with me). ....at any rate, are there any true wireless TV tuner solutions for netbooks nowadays, or is what I'm doing as good as it gets? - or am I totally off base, and the devices sold with netbooks already wireless? 1 gig ram GMA 950 video |
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| Retired Mini user  Posts: 1,577 Join Date: Oct 2008 |
11-10-2009, 02:42 PM
Where do you live that they stopped broadcasting OTA? Broadcasters changed to *digital* signaling in the US, which is still OTA, but requires a special tuner for older, analog televisions. |
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| Super Moderator  Posts: 883 Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: FAA |
11-10-2009, 02:45 PM
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Not sure where you live but I can RX dozens of OTA now-digital stations in my area... Can you use Slingblox with the Mini Several people on the forums have reported success using SlingPlayer to wirelessly watch video... | |
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| Junior Member Posts: 26 Join Date: Apr 2009 |
11-10-2009, 03:40 PM
Oh duh (smacking myself in head) I'm such an idiot. 1 gig ram GMA 950 video |
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| Junior Member Posts: 1 Join Date: Nov 2009 |
11-11-2009, 05:51 AM
yeah.. slingbox works like a charm.  Quote:
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| Junior Member Posts: 26 Join Date: Apr 2009 |
11-11-2009, 01:06 PM
OK - after doing a bit more research........ the ATSC "OTA" stations here look pretty grim.... We have three local TV channels (only good for local news, weather, and football games....also serve CBS, ABC, and NBC) 3 crappy syndicated (Warner Bros., United Paramount Network, and Fox......football, golf, baseball....mostly reruns of sitcoms) 1 Home shopping 1 public television (Seasame Street, Teletubbies, Masterpiece theater) 10 Jesus channels (do people other than serial killers even watch those?) 1 gig ram GMA 950 video |
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| Member  Posts: 48 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Colorado |
11-12-2009, 06:16 PM
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actually, i'm a pastor and i don't like many of them either. you don't have to like "jesus channels" either, but the inference that Christians are serial killers goes beyond insult or evidence, especially if you knew how many Christians around the world are being murdered and presecuted DAILY -- just for being Christian. perhaps you'd like to think on other religions in the news?  Mini 10v| Ice Blue| 2GB RAM| 160GB HDD| AO5| OSX 10.5.8  | |
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| Junior Member Posts: 26 Join Date: Apr 2009 |
11-12-2009, 11:34 PM
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I dunno man -- we're not talking "all Christians" here. We're talking whats on TV.......hours of scary evangelical weirdness with people speaking in tongues, "healing" the sick, and trying break cinder blocks over their heads. Hours of guys preaching sermons in this weird rhythmic monotone way where they repeat suggestive phrases over and over again. By no means a noteworthy presentation of all the post-schism sub-branches, but these guys have definitely gone waaaaaaay off in left field somewhere. You have to wonder about the mindset of the target audience. 1 gig ram GMA 950 video | |
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