Comments on: Placeshifting – your media everywhere

By: Miranda

Miranda — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 19:28:32 +0000

There are a lot of questions that circle around this topic of place shifting. DISH carries something similar that I believe will cover majority of these issues. For starters, it is call the VIP 922, or a sling box. With the 922, because it is a DVR as well there is a $6 server charge for the DRM, which covers any kind of questions about streaming content. This has to be one of the coolest things that has hit the place shifting market in a long time. Check it out.

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:15:56 +0000

There is no reason why you shouldn’t be able to network an XP and Vista machine. Do a quick google search and invest 30 minutes in fixing it.

Make sure they are both on the same work group. You may need to set authentication (username and password) to log into the Vista machine.

I know not everyone is technologically inclined or really even wants to know this stuff, but that is an important and useful thing to understand, especially if you want to “placeshift”

By: LeMagIT Blogs : Le PVR déjà en phase d’obsolescence ?

LeMagIT Blogs : Le PVR déjà en phase d’obsolescence ? — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:04:08 +0000

[...] embarqué dans le réseau, sont en train de se mettre en place. La Slingbox et Orb ont inventé le “placeshifting” en permettant à leurs utilisateurs de profiter de leurs contenus multimédia n’importe où, [...]

By: Trond

Trond — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:28:12 +0000

I got Beyond TV 4.7.1 installed on my HTPC running XP SP2, and Vista on my laptop with Beyond TV Link, no network problems. Well, except for Vista and my Debianserver running Samba….

By: Knut

Knut — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 06:52:03 +0000

I have just tested Windows Vista at our company network for a couple of months. After finishing the test and now using my own Windows XP computer I gain approximately one hour of productive work. Vista was terrible and I needed to reboot the computer three to four times each day due to crashes. Our experience is that Vista isn’t ready for production work.
Windows XP is and OS X is!

By: eirikso

eirikso — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 20:27:50 +0000

The last time I tried them Sage was powerful and complete but very ugly. Beyond lack a complete media archive but is very sleek as a PVR. Don’t know if anyone else have something to add? My best bet is to utilize the trial for both of them.

Regarding networking I gave up on Windows when Vista arrived. Guess you just have to spend a couple of hours disabling a couple of firewalls and security stuff…

By: Lasse Elden

Lasse Elden — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 20:16:37 +0000

Sage or Beyond for placeshifting media? Which is the better?
Could anyone pla give their view on this matter?
And what product of them is needed! I aim to transfer media desktop (tv-card) to my laptop.

By the way! I have trouble with networking between desktop (xp) and laptop (vista). Should I convert to both xp?

By: Lasse Elden

Lasse Elden — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:23:08 +0000

Let me know if you realy want to know Trond!

By: Trond

Trond — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:58:22 +0000

Tempting to ask if you have disabled the firewall in Vista

By: eirikso

eirikso — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 23:51:45 +0000

As far as I remember ORB can stream content. You don’t have to download it. You should also have a look at BeyondTV and SageTV. They both have paceshifting technologies.