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If Aereo loses, there's a nice little thing they can do. They should stop offering the streaming service, and start selling this thing (either recreate a simil

by selmnoo 13y ago

If Aereo loses, there's a nice little thing they can do. They should stop offering the streaming service, and start selling this thing (either recreate a similar competing device, or simply become a reseller!): http://www.hauppauge.com/site/products/data_broadway.html http://www.hauppauge.com/site/products/data_broadway.html - a TV-signal-receiver/streamer-in-one device -- which can stream either over your local Wi-fi, or across the interwebs so you can watch remotely when you're out of the house. And then people can use this thing for themselves and their friends and families... at no cost! Aereo should ship the thing to all current consumers immediately after losing, and lock everyone into a contract of 8$/month payments for however long it takes to recoup the full $150 cost of the device. I'll be happy if people get this device over a service because it goes a nice distance to finally putting the power of cloud in the consumer's hand.

Splendor 13y ago
Aereo is for people who can't put up an antenna (or don't want to). This device requires an antenna.
- selmnoo 13y ago
  You must have at least one friend or family member who can put up an antenna though, right? Give it to them, and get a streamcast going! Sure it's five minutes of hassle setting the thing up, but once it's setup it's all free.
  - bri3d 13y ago
    My experience with doing this with friends is that most US ISPs have awful upload jitter, plus (increasingly) data caps as well. This might work for lucky fiber-to-home subscribers but every time I've tried on Comcast, a giant buffer (10 seconds or more) is required to hide the jitter, and sometimes the neighbors start seeding something on BitTorrent and the stream will still cut out. Plus there are a lot of contingencies that require an increasingly complex technical solution. First you have to deal with whatever router configuration / NAT is present. And sometimes your friend's IP changes, and you're stuck setting up dynamic DNS or a reverse proxy. The Broadway box was generally panned in reviews for not including a workaround for these networking issues, and I suspect the technical complexity of friend-to-friend streaming is why TV broadcasters have never been worried about it in the past. IPv6 will hopefully help solve the addressing and NAT issues, but the generally awful quality of US home connections remains a big problem.
  - superuser2 13y ago
    Upload speed on US cable internet is often around 56k, even where download speeds exceed 20Mbps.
markelliot 13y ago
That'd be essentially the same as Slingbox (http://www.slingbox.com/ http://www.slingbox.com/).

by selmnoo 13y ago

Splendor 13y ago

Aereo is for people who can't put up an antenna (or don't want to). This device requires an antenna.

selmnoo 13y ago
You must have at least one friend or family member who can put up an antenna though, right? Give it to them, and get a streamcast going! Sure it's five minutes of hassle setting the thing up, but once it's setup it's all free.
- bri3d 13y ago
  My experience with doing this with friends is that most US ISPs have awful upload jitter, plus (increasingly) data caps as well. This might work for lucky fiber-to-home subscribers but every time I've tried on Comcast, a giant buffer (10 seconds or more) is required to hide the jitter, and sometimes the neighbors start seeding something on BitTorrent and the stream will still cut out. Plus there are a lot of contingencies that require an increasingly complex technical solution. First you have to deal with whatever router configuration / NAT is present. And sometimes your friend's IP changes, and you're stuck setting up dynamic DNS or a reverse proxy. The Broadway box was generally panned in reviews for not including a workaround for these networking issues, and I suspect the technical complexity of friend-to-friend streaming is why TV broadcasters have never been worried about it in the past. IPv6 will hopefully help solve the addressing and NAT issues, but the generally awful quality of US home connections remains a big problem.
- superuser2 13y ago
  Upload speed on US cable internet is often around 56k, even where download speeds exceed 20Mbps.

markelliot 13y ago

That'd be essentially the same as Slingbox (http://www.slingbox.com/ http://www.slingbox.com/).