Remote TV
December 4th, 2006
I went out and picked up a slingbox today. For those of you who don’t know, it’s a device that hooks into your audio/video system and allows you to stream the video feed remotely over the network. It was more difficult to setup than I thought (had to look up instructions on the internet for getting my airport express working), especially since you need to connect to the slingbox via local LAN before you can configure it to be accessed remotely. Once I did all that (about 2h of fiddling), it worked perfectly and I can now stream video (from our TV and PVR) from anywhere in the world provided the bandwidth is fast enough. I definitely recommend getting one of these, especially if you travel a lot.
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1. Nick | December 5th, 2006 at 2:46 pm
Very fun! You can put the player software on a USB key and play it anywhere — it even retains your settings… that’s fantastic, now I don’t even have to take a computer with me.
2. Nick | December 6th, 2006 at 6:37 am
Works great from the airport lounge.
3. Chad | December 10th, 2006 at 11:56 am
Now you just need a USB key with a LCD display.
(Careful when you pay $$$/megabyte from Germany.)
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