Vista CableCARD Media Center PCs - what do you want to know?

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Flying? @ May 21st 2007 9:45PM

In France, with the ISP called "Free", we have the opportunity to stream the IPTV we get on every mobile device that can handle VLC (VideoLan) player: it is also possible to watch TV direclty from the so-called "freebox" and simultaneously watch other channels on other laptops (limit being the bandwidth of both wifi/ethernet and internet connection, but since they're using MPEG-4 now instead of MPEG-2, you can at least hope for 2 or 3).

First "problem": you can only stream the channels on your local network. You cannot access it from another external IP who is not from the same ISP.

Second problem : it doesn't fit into Windows Media Center ... there is in fact a dedicated box (DVR, etc. kind of TiVo if you want) which is free at subscription. Not as good as Media Center, but it does its job ...

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