If you're scouting the perfect
placeshifting device to cure those television blues while stuck at your TV-less grandmother's house for Thanksgiving, the
Slingbox might not be the obvious choice anymore. Granted, it'll probably be awhile before the current king is dethroned, Pinnacle is giving the shifting game its best shot with the
PCTV To Go. Sporting built-in WiFi / Windows MCE support, this content
liaison works essentially like any other timeshifting device out there, and channels MPEG4 video to wherever you're logged in (or MPEG2 if connected locally). It also allows full control over your attached DVR, giving you the opportunity to schedule a recording for that oh-so-critical rerun of
Nick Arcade, Season One. It reportedly works seamlessly with your home entertainment system, acting as a pass-through device that won't complicate things when wiring it up, but there's no word on whether it
supports HD signals. The
Pinnacle PCTV To Go should be available just before Turkey Day for a very competitive $249.99.
Update: Thanks to an eagle-eyed reader who prefers to remain anonymous (apparently Pinnacle's got some leg breakers on its payroll) we now know that this is little more than a rebranded
HAVA box from Snappy -- not that there's anything wrong with that, just sayin'.
[Via
PVRWire]
posted Nov 15th 2006 7:31PM
If you already have a Windows MCE box, why not just use Orb for free?
Linux support?
I agree with your comments "PCTV"where the satellite can work on pc also.And the number of channels we can get through satellite to PCTV
I purchased PCTV to Go so I would have wireless access on my home network. DVR is a DirecTV Tivo HR10-250. The IR Blaster is apparently working, but it WILL NOT communicate with my HR10-250 even though that is a stated option in the setup. No matter how I position the IR Blaster in front of my IR window, the remote system will not work. That renders the whole PCTV to Go system WORTHLESS. It's going back.
Orion... have you tried to contact Pinnacle support to isolate the problem further? It might be reasonable to get in touch with the manufacturer in cases like these...