Orb 2.0 streams live TV to your iPhone
By Nilay Patel 
posted November 20th 2008 3:14PM
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One more way to suck my battery dead. How many days until incase has the case and battery pack as one? Still waiting on price.
... or you don't buy it.
I will never quite understand why some people, when given a choice that they didn't have before, only find reason to complain.
^Agreed. With the complaining part. Options are always better than no options.
This is a killer for Sling. Even though I've got a slingbox I'm going to look into setting up Orb. And, if it works great I may consider switching totally.
! want to know if that extended battery pack fits the touch or a touch version is coming?
anyways the linux version would be totally be totally perfect to watch from my eee web cam.
Nice. Can't wait for a Mac version.
The BBC are going to start streaming their channels through iPlayer, so this could become largely redundant for UK users soon. That's assuming they expose the streams to iPhone users. The only drawback is that iPlayer has to work over WiFi - given that this also works over 3G and EDGE, I'm surprised this got through to the App Store. Not a bad thing, though. By no means.
it's ok, but I want it to work with http://www.freetube.us.tc then I'll be a happy camper when I can watch the news channels on there. Otherwise I have to get to the nearest computer inbetween (given my work breaks that shouldn't be too hard).
$10!!!
It was free when you jail broke it!!!!!
y orb Y!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
everyone on their forums told them to charge for it, i have NO idea why but it wasnt orbs idea, they all decided on 10$ as a price at the end
Pay for bandwidth? HAHHA
As long as people use WEP I refuse to pay for bandwidth.
Its their idiot tax.
You think apple made them charge for it because they supported jailbreaking?
I still don't want to pay.... someone donate $10 to me or 10 ppl donate $1 or 20 people donate 50c or 40 people donate a quater or 1000 people donate a penny....
I'll give you $10 to shut the fuck up!
Great movie reference to "the ref"
I gave their "lite" version a try since it was free... works well... takes a little while for the stream to load but once it's up it runs nicely... not sure I want to pull the trigger on the $10 app.
Yeah, I'd sure hate to pay someone for their time developing and application that actually works well....
Perhaps he meant that since the lite version appeared slow, and there's no way to demo a $10 app, he was hesitant. But by all means, let's throw money at anyone with an app on the app store.
Either you pay 10 bucks for this app or pay iTunes for each episode of tv show you watch. Plus, you don't get to watch live tv shows
Someone send a search party out for Slingbox.
And how much do you think Sling will end up charging? $30? Orb can do so much more than just TV. Video, audio, remote webcams, photos...
Still haven't pulled the trigger on the mobile app but I am a huge fan of Orb and have been using it for years.
I'd pay it. I am forced to use my cablebox. Plus my computer has a 1000w powersupply and I really don't want to leave it on all the time.
ah but Slingbox doesn't need your whole PC running all the time, neither does LocationFree
I got the LocationFree cause it was cheaper than the slingbox and I could use it with my PSP for free, Slingbox charges extra for use on mobile devices
I don't think Orb lets you change channels, and turn the devices on and off, unless you are tuning on the PC itself maybe
so while Orb is free, I don't think the $70 one time fee I payed was a big deal
@redstripe Sling is just an audio/video relay. That audio/video can originate on a PC as easily as on a TV. I've got my mac mini (running Plex) hooked up to mine, in addition to my cable box.
This has been up for a few weeks. $10 is not a bad deal IMO. It works well.
Ah yes, the first gen metal iPhone is the best. Plastic is soo cheap.
Did YOU just insult one of Apples decisions?
Next thing we know Sony will be handing out free Xbox 360s and Bill Gates will use OSx86!
I always said the 3G iPhone was cheap. And Apple did not even include the dock that you can get at Deal Extreme for $3. that means that Apple pays $0.50 for it.
1St gen iPhones are and always will be the best. My iPhone is on prepaid! I just like to look at it and use it on special occasions. Like my muscle car.
I, and most of us, still hate you.
But our respect for him went up half of a quarter of a fifth of a percent.
1 fortieth of a percent!?!? That's a small amount...
...me do fractions good....english no so good.
Love this program… used it on my jail broken phone all the time.
The only problem I had was my legs falling asleep from sitting on the toilet to long. haha
The downfall of man since the advent of the GameBoy.
If I'm not mistaken I believe theres a portable toilet app too.
the webcam feature is pretty cool. almost makes me want to get an iPhone...maybe when they upgrade the battery and my contract runs out. maybe...
What am I missing? Why would I watch TV on my little iphone screen while hooked up to a PC? I use Elgato now and watch on my mac on a 23" screen. I must have read something wrong, because this makes no sense.
you use your PC as a data hub for the TV tuner. from there the IPhone connects to the PC (wirelessly) and streams whatever you have on tv (through the TV tuner card) to your pc.
make sense?
I've been a long-time user of orb. I love it. Great product that just seems "to work".
couple week old news but only stream tv over wifi, jailbreak with a hack lets you watch tv ota its pretty tight!
Oki, how do you do this watch tv over the air your talking about?
This app is great - easily worth $10. I was surprised at how well it streams tv and webcam video even over edge. Video takes a little time to load, however.
You can stream with 3G, not just Wi-Fi. The latest update allows it. I have their beta version, I have no reason to upgrade right now. This thing is awesome. Especially when you add uSirius to your PC. You can add the stream channels to Orb, and stream your favorite radio stations.
Now....if only Sling would get theirs done.....Life would be 100% complete. Then I will have live HDTV as well.
I'm surprised to read that Nilay didn't use a pretentious word like "onus" on that last sentence. What a shame.
Great another thing for us potential storm owners to drool over.
Orb works with everything. That's the charm!
I use Orb to do all this on my Nokia. It's a great service. I'm a little bemused as to why iPhone users are 'taxed' though. I can use it for free.
"Sadly there's no date for the Mac and Linux versions, but Orb says they're on the way."
I find that ironic, since the iPhone is an Apple product :D, but I would bet a large user base of the iPhone use Windows.
Why would I watch TV on iPhone using the tuner card from Windows PC?? Couldn't I just watch it on m big PC screen?
So is there a limit on AT&T's unlimited internet. If I stream for about two hours a day will AT&T shut down or disconnect my line. Thinking of switching to AT&T if it won't happen!
Umm... UNLIMITED data plan, I don't think there will be a limt hence the UN- prefix
There are countries where the overages incurred by using this would bankrupt you. Canada used to be one of them until the iPhone 3G came along and changed data plans for the better.
The moment they have a Mac version, I'd be all over it. But since I already own a Slingbox, I hope they come out with an iPhone app soon.
The app perfectly with my vista mce tv tuner card. Watching LIVE TV on the iPhone is worth the $10 alone.
Well, the problem is that Macs really aren't that TV friendly so it stands to reason that they would develop for the many windows users who already have TV tuner cards, which are the main attraction of their product.