Want to watch Television on your iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad or Android tablet ? Perhaps the Hauppauge Broadway is the solution for you. The Broadway connects between your TV source and home Wi-Fi network, converts the TV signal to be displayed on your mobile device, and sends the signal to your device via Wifi or the Internet. The Broadway converts and compresses the live TV signal to Apple compatible h.264 video format or Flash when transmitted to Mac, PC or Android. It contains a tuner with support for cable and satellite set top boxes, ATSC over-the-air TV signals and unencrypted digital cable TV (clear QAM). You get full control of the TV channel selected via Broadway’s “IR-blaster” technology. In theory (and I’m guessing it would depend on link speeds and latency) you can also stream your favourite shows while abroad from your home to your tablet via the internet.
Available from the Hauppauge Store for $199.
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This looks like a nice product, but with the exception of containing a tuner to receive over-the-air signals, it doesn’t do much more than my Slingbox Solo ($179 at Best Buy).
However, if the Broadway doesn’t charge extra for the iPad, iPhone, iPod software, then it does come out less expensive than the Slingbox.
I’m happy to see a competitor to Sling. For too long they’ve been the only game in town. But the concept of watching whatever is playing on my cable box is terrific. It’s much better than what my cable provider, Time Warner, has in their software.