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chrisryn

24th May 2007, 02:24 AM

peezy

24th May 2007, 02:30 AM

Personally I use slingbox, and its frekin awesome! I have it coneected to my tivo, and slingplayer mobile allows for full control of your tivo with my 8525. I havent used orb, but when I was in your position researching it seemed like the video quality is about the same. AV quality is VERY good with wifi, good with 3g, and choppy with edge.

dazzled

24th May 2007, 10:52 AM

If so can you change channels. I can watch the last channel I was watching in media center but it doesn't change to the channel I select in the program guide on orb? Is there another software like orb that will stream the live tv to my 8525 or do I need to wait till I have the cash for a sling box.

Although i currently don't have it set up at the moment due to rom upgrades, i did have this working previously and it changed channels no problem.

As long as you have the channels setup correctly in orb configuration this will work as you want.

kengtay

24th May 2007, 02:20 PM

Slingbox does a better job so far.

Firehawkns

24th May 2007, 04:53 PM

I just started with Orb streaming my media and pictures off of my server, but I haven't set up TV yet because I have a weak link in my cable so that when I split it to hook up my TV Tuner card, I lose about half my speed with my cable modem. Video from the PC has come across great with 2.0, I hope the same with the TV.

wwwes

25th May 2007, 03:29 AM

i've had it working for a few months. I use xp- not media center addition- just plain xp.
ati all in wonder radeon 8500dv
orb 2.0_latest release

I use the file browser to get gps maps, etc down to my 8525. play mp3, video, even look at my webcam, and watch tv (or listen to it while I'm driving). works on 3g and edge, even with an old pentium3 pc!

never tried a $lingbox, but my orb pc is free. sits there with no monitor, no keyboard, no mouse, just cable tv and lan.