2013-01-10, 18:13
(2013-01-10, 16:30)jfoley Wrote: Sounds like you should be good to go from a CPU perspective and with the wired lan. Although as you eluded to, YMMV on wireless conditions and also the power of the specific Android device. Streaming the video with this product is also resource intensive on the viewing machine although I use my Motorola Xoom and it works just fine. I also use an old laptop and it spins up the CPU when I stream 720p to it.
As far as DLNA, should this pan out, it will potentially give you the ability to directly stream the HDHomerun prime to lets say a TV. Without the need for anything else other than wired/wireless Ethernet and a TV capable of DLNA with DMS, DTCP-IP. According to this engadged review http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/05/hdhom...r-live-tv/ , the only device they know of currently that can do it is the PS3. I would guess more options are currently available or will be in the future.
I just found an Android app that will allow you to stream directly to the device, without any backend like this project. It is called HDHomerunTV, available in the playstore. Currently it only works while on your local lan, and it isn't as fancy as this project. Very limited, but it works.
Interesting stuff...I don't currently own a ps3. I own a xbox and was thinking of purchasing a Nexus 7 and/or a Galaxy s3 phone(when my renewal is up in a few weeks)....I would have probably already pulled the trigger on an HDHomerun Prime, but when I went to purchase it, amazon had it for $149.99 and when I looked at it a few weeks ago, it was only $129.99, but did not have my new PC hardware yet. I'm not sure what the reason for the price increase since I saw that they will be release a 4 tuner version soon that they displayed at CES...
EDIT: I saw this product coming out in February as well....It looks pretty neat and couples with XBMC, it might be worth a pretty nice look....
http://www.phonearena.com/news/This-is-t...id38287#10-