<div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed">Timothy Murphy wrote: > Ed Greshko wrote: > >>> I've read lots of online postings about people >>> who are apparently watching TV on their computers, >>> but I haven't seen a concrete description of what to do. >>> >>> I'd love to see a posting from someone who has abandoned >>> the traditional TV set in favour of the (Fedora) computer. >>> >> Kind of a broad question such that there are multiple answers.... > > Thanks for your response. > To clarify my query, I was not asking about TV cards in the computer. > >> Are you simply talking about watching ones local TV stations or cable >> content on their system. i.e. The system has a TV Tuner card connected >> to either ant or cable? >> >> Are you talking about something a bit more complex where they still have >> the one system with the TV tuner card, but they are using something like >> vlc and streaming the content either to their local lan or the internet? > >> Are you talking about people connecting with the likes of hulu.com or >> www.justin.tv ? > > I looked at these (well, hulu.com seems restricted to the US), > but they both seem to be offering videos on line, rather than TV. > >> Or maybe evening something like "Slingbox"...use to...but no longer will >> work wine. > > I have actually tried Slingbox, but not with great success. > I have "HDhomerun" which handles clear QAM channels in HD just fine. Unfortunately I have a cable co who delivers local HD in clear, 70 channels in NTSC (analog) clear, and the rest in encoded digital. The HDhomerun seems not to handle the NTSC channels, although I hoped it would. It does work well with vlc to watch and/or capture the programming it handles. -- Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot </div> -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines