Posted by Jon Ross on 10/08/07 08:40

A.Xino wrote:
> On 5 Oct, 00:17, "Mike" <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
>> Thinking of getting one. Anyone any experience of them?
>
> They'll work within your home, but don't believe the promise of
> watching your home TV or listening to your mp3 collection from
> anywhere in the world. It may be possible theoretically, but you'll be
> very lucky if it actually works in practice, certainly not at any
> reasonable level.
>

I'm not sure they promise to play MP3s at all.

I have one of the first PAL machines (I was a Beta tester) and up until
quite recently I have only used it around the house and occasionally in
a hotel for watching things off my Tivo. Recently however they have
released the software for my N95 and I find I am using it much more to
watch things on my phone. It does eat the battery though so is only
really viable when near a power source. It was quite cool yesterday
though to plug my phone into the car TV's on a long motorway journey so
my children could watch Saturday's Ant & Dec off the Tivo at home -
apart from a couple of pauses (presumably where I was in low signal
areas) it worked flawlessly.

For the OP - I would recommend installing (free) Orb and getting a
couple of cheap DVB tuner cards, this has the added benefit of being
able to access all your media and not requiring bespoke software
installation.

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