Slingplayer
Price: $29.99 (app), $179.99 (Slingbox)
The Slingbox has been around for a while-doing the same thing really well. This gadget plugs in to your cable box, and broadcasts your programming to the Internet. With a Web browser, you can access your own cable box from anywhere, and watch your own TV without being at home. The Slingplayer iPhone app ($29.99) makes it incredibly easy to watch TV from the Web-anything you can watch at home, you can watch on your iPad via Slingbox. The app isn't currently designed for the iPad, but, according to the company, full support is in the works, and video already looks good in enlarged mode on the iPad.
Price: $29.99 (app), $179.99 (Slingbox)
The Slingbox has been around for a while-doing the same thing really well. This gadget plugs in to your cable box, and broadcasts your programming to the Internet. With a Web browser, you can access your own cable box from anywhere, and watch your own TV without being at home. The Slingplayer iPhone app ($29.99) makes it incredibly easy to watch TV from the Web-anything you can watch at home, you can watch on your iPad via Slingbox. The app isn't currently designed for the iPad, but, according to the company, full support is in the works, and video already looks good in enlarged mode on the iPad.
Elgato EyeTV
Price: $99.95 (EyeTV One); $4.99 (app)
Watching live TV on your iPad is a pretty compelling idea, and a surprisingly easy one. The Elgato EyeTV One is a $99.95 dongle for your Apple computer that displays and records live TV, turning your Mac into a television and a DVR. The EyeTV can stream that high-definition TV programming from your Mac to your iPad with the $4.99 EyeTV app. You can also schedule or watch recorded shows right from your iPad. You'll need both the dongle and the app to get the TV onto your iPad, but it's a very complete solution.
Price: $99.95 (EyeTV One); $4.99 (app)
Watching live TV on your iPad is a pretty compelling idea, and a surprisingly easy one. The Elgato EyeTV One is a $99.95 dongle for your Apple computer that displays and records live TV, turning your Mac into a television and a DVR. The EyeTV can stream that high-definition TV programming from your Mac to your iPad with the $4.99 EyeTV app. You can also schedule or watch recorded shows right from your iPad. You'll need both the dongle and the app to get the TV onto your iPad, but it's a very complete solution.
On Aug 30, 2011, at 7:46 PM, Laura Velez wrote:
I have been ignoring these Apple gizmos, but I see that Apple tv lets you stream from an iOS device, but will it go the other way? Will it let me watch TV on my iPad?
LauraV in TX
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