Not quite cable, but here is a commercial solution http://www.snapstream.com/enterprise/markets/educationK-12.asp Worlds Largest DVR.
If you want to try to "Roll your own" Myth TV is an option that looks like it would work, but I have not had time to really dig deep into it. http://www.mythtv.org/ The basics: You can have one or more "Servers" or "Myth Backend" with video capture cards to record shows. Each server can hold one or more capture cards as well. The server is a Linux box, but there are several distributions that allow for a simple guided setup. I also believe there is a "Myth Frontend" that is a windows application, and would expect there is a Mac frontend as well. So it is not really Cable TV. The big drawback is that watching "Live" programming you will be limited to the number of unique channels as you have capture cards. I believe you could have several frontend computers watching the same channel, but if you only have one capture card front end options would be to watch a recorded show, or the channel the capture card is set to. I would be willing to spend some time at a district this summer if you want to setup a Myth TV solution. Let me know. Thanks. From: Richardson,Tony Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 8:13 AM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: [info-tech] CATV Hello all, Anyone out there successfully putting Cable TV on their Ethernet network? If so email me off info-tech. No need to fill everyone's inbox with this stuff. Thanks, Tony Richardson Network Administrator/Director of Technology Humboldt Community Schools trichard...@humboldt.k12.ia.us or l...@edu: trichard...@humboldtschools.org
