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Streaming Your TV - Personal broadcast

Being obsessed with technology and gadget i have decided to experiment with my new TATA Sky connection which is integrated with my Home PC (Windows Media Center Edition 2005 ). Since i am paying for TATA Sky and BSNL broadband i thought it would be great if i can stream my TV so that i can watch it live when i am not at home. I have following options but they come with cost

Option 1 : Buy Sling box www.slingmedia.com (A stand alone device using which you can stream your source, it could be normal cable or Satellite TV or even DVD player ) but it does cost you $200 ( 8000 - 9000 /- but you have to get it from US ) - So i ruled out it for time being but you can explore it and believe me it is very good option to stream your TV.

Option2: HAVA www.myhava.com , This product is in similar lines of Sling device but also adds Wireless functionality for local viewing and amazing thing is local viewing is almost DVD quality because they stream with MPEG-2 Full D1 quality and remote viewing is more or less same as Sling) , again this product also comes with cost ~ $200, so ruled out for time being.

So i have left with exploring for a software based Streaming servers and i found products like VideoLAN, TV Stream Box ... etc but none of them are user friendly when it comes to setup and configuration and finally i found a decent product called Ord www.orb.com which is straight forward and hassle-free setup and configuration.

Believe me setup is so simple, you will immediately fall in love with this product and beauty of this product is, it serves as "Personal broadcaster" i.e you can access your Video, Audio,Photos and many more at one shot. All you need to is, Keep your system ON and make sure Orb is running in your system and on the other hand client system just login to www.orb.com and provide your credentials and start enjoying shows.

Requirements:

- Decent PIV PC
- TV Tuner card, i am using MPEG-2 hardware encoded PC Card, ideally any card which supports MPEG-2 encoding should work fine. Happuage WinPVRis safe bet. FOr complete list of compatible Tuner card list please check at www.orb.com
- Good spped broadband connection (Unlimited plan is ideal as it require huge download / uplaod while streaming).
- Cable TV or Satellite TV (Dish or TATA Sky but you would require IR Blaster cable inorder to change channels).
- Remote control and IR Transceiver for your conveniences. (Incase of Satellite TV you would require IR transceiver since it requires to change channels of Satellite TV).
- Orb software (downlaod from www.orb.com) and create account with Orb.

Thats it you are done. Now i am enjoying remote viewing and wish same to you.

Note: If any one require Step by step guide do replay back to this post, i can help you to get it working.
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Anonymous said…
I have thought and have removed this question
August 13, 2010 at 3:59 AM
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