Good call, Jim. The HDTV Pinnacle TV tuner is awesome for OTA HDTV broadcast.
- Matt Small ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <cf-community@houseoffusion.com> Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 12:08 AM Subject: RE: help getting college football game over internet(kinda urgent) >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Dana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Friday, November 23, 2007 9:57 PM >> To: CF-Community >> Subject: Re: help getting college football game over internet(kinda >> urgent) >> >> I am hearing http://www.slingmedia.com/ but I am not sure that solves >> your >> problem. I think you may not have enough time. My co-worker thinks you >> may >> be able to get one at Best Buy. > > Sling Box (from Sling Media) should do it, but it might need a little > explaining. Basically it's a hardware solution that sits on a TV Line > (cable, satellite, rabbit-ears, whatever) and "broadcasts" whatever you > see > on your TV to an Internet site/application. > > So basically you'd set up the Sling Box at home (or some other place that > can receive the game AND has a good broadband upload speed) and then > receive > the Stream at the church. > > It's a popular little doo-hickey - you DON'T need a computer at the source > (but I believe you need one to initially configure it over the network). > > However you can do the same thing with a computer and TV Tuner card using > streaming media software. Orb software (http://www.orb.com) is free and > does this (it needs a decent speed computer since it transcode video > streams > into Flash Video in real time). > > However all of these streaming solutions are susceptible to all the issues > you'd expect. Even in the best of scenarios the video is highly > compressed > for transmission - it looks good but will NOT look as good as TV. In most > cases however you're going to see drop outs, frame skips and the like - > with > good connections on both ends it should be watchable but nobody is going > to > really be fooled that it's "TV". > > That said since you're streaming the TV signal yourself it may very end up > better than a dedicated online streaming service (since they're streaming > for lots and lots of users they may very compress the signal more. > > Stupid question but is the game going to be on regular TV? Might it be > simplest just to run an old-fashioned (or an HD antennae if these folks > are > all high-tech - most local stations do over-the-air HD now) antennae to > the > roof? > > For that matter is there a neighbor that does have cable that will let you > run a wire willy-nilly from their place to the TV? A cable line (on > that's > not split since cable signal strength is reduced dramatically by > splitters) > should hold a decent signal for as much as a few hundred feet. > > A direct connection will be much more reliable than any sort of network > streaming. In any case you might want to bring in a DVD or two as backup > just in case! > > Jim Davis > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:246974 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
