This is a tiny school of 4 classrooms... so 2 might be enough. But this gives me a solution I can present to those who need options.
--Matt Ross Ephrata School District ----- Original Message ----- From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysad...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 18:21:29 -0800 Subject: Re: Distributing TV over IP > Out of curiosity, how many tuners are you going to manage? > Two likely isn't enough. > > On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Matthew W. Ross > <mr...@ephrataschools.org>wrote: > > > This HomeRunHD unit looks exactly like what I'm looking for. Thanks! > > > > > > --Matt Ross > > Ephrata School District > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Glen Johnson > > [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > [mailto:ntsysad...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] > > Sent: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 > > 11:47:02 -0800 > > Subject: RE: Distributing TV over IP > > > > > > > When you mentioned MythTV, it reminded me, media center and xbox with > the > > > media center extender? > > > Also, maybe the HDHomeRun boxes might fit in there. I saw where > > TigerDirect > > > has one on sale today. They are tv tuners that re-encode and send over > > > Ethernet. > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org] > > > Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 7:41 PM > > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > > Subject: Distributing TV over IP > > > > > > I have an interesting one for the list... > > > > > > Our school district has cable television available to each school > through > > > the local cable company. We have a new(er) school which we are now > > looking > > > at providing television services. In our older schools, the cable > company > > > ran coax to each classroom with a centralized industrial splitter... > > giving > > > many channels a grainy, less than ideal image. > > > > > > Hey, it's the 21's century... can I push the video over IP? > > > > > > Here's what I'm envisioning: Cable comes into our MDF, and we have some > > kind > > > of encoder that takes the signal. Then, throughout a building we have > > some > > > decoders which happily take the feed from the encoder and play it to > > > whatever kind of TV it's plugged into. The decoder would be able to > > control > > > which channel the encoder is sending... and for extra points the > > decoder's > > > remote can control the TV's power and volume. > > > > > > Does such a solution exist? > > > > > > Some more details: The cable company only provides basic cable for free, > > > which does _not_ require one of their own decoding boxes. I know that > the > > > signal that the basic cable provides is ye-old-analogue signaling, plus > a > > > few of the new digital channels. My expertise in TV signaling is > > extremely > > > limited, so I don't know much more than that. > > > > > > Has anybody had experience with this kind of TV distribution over IP? > > (Not > > > to be confused with IPTV.) > > > > > > I know this could go crazy... Multicasting, Recording/DVRs, user > > security, > > > PC clients, etc... but let's start with what would be very basic (Live > TV > > > only) and cheap. Thanks for any input! > > > > > > > > > --Matt Ross > > > Ephrata School District > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > > > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > > > --- > > > To manage subscriptions click here: > > > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > > > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > > > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > > > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > > > --- > > > To manage subscriptions click here: > > > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > > > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > > > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > --- > > To manage subscriptions click here: > > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
