[Cialug] HDHomeRun

Matthew Nuzum matthew.nuzum at canonical.com
Fri Apr 27 08:21:55 CDT 2007


On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 16:34 -0500, Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote:
> I got one a month or two ago. It works great.  Using it for OTA-8VSB
> reception, don't have cable.  Of course, this being HDTV, you are
> working with 6-8G of data an hour.  Plus, it takes a pretty good
> machine
> (or a slower box with a XvMC-compatible video card) just to play
> it. 

Have you tried watching TV via a computer connected with wifi? (802.11g)

My wife has been asking for the ability to watch live TV in the kitchen
on her laptop. I'm wondering if this would be a good solution for her
since it's not much different in price to the USB OTA HD tuners.
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Matthew Nuzum
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