Place-shifting with Beyond TV
February 7th, 2007 at 9:39 am by Rakesh
With the popularity of place-shifting*, we often get the question from users about how they can do place-shifting with Beyond TV. While Beyond TV has some legacy technology built-in for place-shifting, we’ve never pushed this to being a full feature. The best way to do place-shifting as a Beyond TV user is to use one of the fine 3rd party place-shifting solutions like Slingbox and Orb.
So if you’re looking to do place-shifting with Beyond TV, check out this blog posting by one of our users, Warren, about using Orb 2.0 and Beyond TV together:
…I’ve been using Orb regularly to to view TV from the DVR setup I have at home in the office. The DVR system consist of a Hauppauge USB 2 Tuner (with the hardware mpeg2 encoder) and I’m using Snapstream’s Beyond TV, Vers. 4.5. This combination makes for a heck of dvr setup…
And one of the cool things about Orb (or so I hear… I haven’t actually tried it out myself) is that you can also run it on any Windows Mobile phone, Sony Playstation PS3 or Nintendo Wii.
(* What is place-shifting you ask? It’s the act of watching your recordings or live TV from outside your home… come on, I know you’ve heard of Slingbox!)
February 16th, 2007 at 10:59 am
Not to state the obvious, but if you are often getting the question about placeshifting, it might make sense at some point to implement the feature in your product.
Suggesting people use a free product (Orb) that performs many, if not more, of the functions of your for pay product may not be great for your future sales! (Yes, orb isn’t just a place shifter - it also has full PVR capabilities)
February 20th, 2007 at 6:59 pm
I’d second that comment - high bandwidth cell phones and the prevalence of wi-fi make this a feature that I think many would use while on the go. I’d also like to see Snapstream re-visit the mobile site and update or add mobile / cell phone scheduling into the web interface so I can connect and schedule recordings against my local server.
May 20th, 2007 at 5:05 am
I have to agree. I have been watching BTV for many months and am now taking the plunge; PVR, Girder, NetRemote, AvCast, etc. Due to Orb’s recent enhancements, I am becoming confused in that the features of Orb & BTV may be redundant. I would prefer to have a single solution.