Originally Posted by
globe.trotter
How do you stay up to date with your tv shows (from the USA) while overseas?
I love hulu when I'm in the country but now that I'm out its no good. If it matters I have a MacBook.
I use a Slingbox. I used to also rip shows from my DirecTV DVR and then transfer the mpeg file, but that is a difficult and elaborate process and far too involved to explain here.
Originally Posted by
Deerfield
I will use this thread to ask a Slingbox question - I have a friend who is stationed in Peru and would like me to add Slingbox to my set so she can watch American TV in Peru - I know you can watch on a laptop - but how would we set up (simply) so she can watch on her full HDTV?
Thanks.
All she needs is a graphic card with an HDMI or DVI output (for the latter, she'll need a DVI to HDMI adapter). Also, many HDTVs have a computer video jack. Some graphics cards are capable of summing the audio and video over HDMI. Others will require connecting the audio output separately.
We have a house in San Francisco and I often watch our Slingbox Pro HD in Newport Beach on an HDTV when we're there. It works fine, though do not expect the same video quality as, for example, from a Blue-ray disk. For the Slingbox to work its magic, the video stream has to be highly compressed.