http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/ Engadget Comments for Cablevision's new 'PC to TV Media Relay' slings PC media to your cable box, fuzzy on the details http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/
How long has it taken cable companies to figure this out?!?!?!]]>Feb 24th 2010 4:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/
How is this better than simply hooking up your TV as a secondary monitor for the computer?

As far as I can tell, you're still pushing buttons on the keyboard to select what you want to see, etc...so the computer needs to be nearby.

What's the benefit? How is loading up extra software and running through the cable box simpler than just running some video/audio cables from your computer directly to the TV? I watch Hulu on my old old TV all the time...]]>Feb 25th 2010 11:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/Feb 24th 2010 4:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/Feb 24th 2010 9:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/Every cable company is almost universally hated because in almost all markets they have zero competition which in turn has led to stagnant levels of quality and service.
Improve the product rather than dressing crap up with a bowtie. ]]>Feb 24th 2010 4:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/Feb 24th 2010 4:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/OH GOD, THE HD BOXES ARE SO PAINFULLY SLOW!!!!!!!!]]>Feb 24th 2010 6:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/If you have the 4200HD, I highly recommend swapping out for a 4250HD.]]>Feb 24th 2010 9:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/Feb 24th 2010 4:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/
Why can't the Cable Modem retransmit the data over a private channel that is only broadcast inside my house? ]]>Feb 24th 2010 10:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/Feb 24th 2010 4:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/Feb 24th 2010 4:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/Feb 24th 2010 8:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/Feb 24th 2010 10:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/Feb 24th 2010 5:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/Feb 24th 2010 5:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/
pshh...that will never happen...]]>Feb 24th 2010 5:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/
Ever heard of Sling?]]>Feb 24th 2010 6:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/Feb 24th 2010 6:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/Feb 24th 2010 8:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/
What companies should be looking to do is improve the DVR experience with fast, powerful, 1TB+ SlingLoaded DVRs that have whole-house networking, cable companies could network through MoCA, and have zero configuration, and it would all be done through the cable splitter in the house, and configured through the remote provisioning process.]]>Feb 24th 2010 9:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/Feb 24th 2010 10:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/Feb 25th 2010 12:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/
With this configuration, I hook my computer to the cable box, tune to a certain channel, and control the computer to determine what shows up on the TV.

Even with an old CRT TV, I can cut out the middle man -- use the TV-out port that most computers and laptops have, and run an RCA cable directly to the TV. Use a headphone-RCA Y-cable to get sound to the TV. Done. It's even easier on a new TV with a VGA or DVI port.

I seriously don't get how this cablevision thing makes anything simpler. The only "simplification" is that people who still don't understand RCA cables (???) can now have a big company advertise to them and tell them exactly how to do it using *their* proprietary equipment.]]>Feb 25th 2010 11:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/Feb 25th 2010 4:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/
On the PC runs an MPEG4 encoder + DLNA media server that encodes the TV screen into a streaming mpeg4 video. The cable box runs DLNA client to receive and playback the incoming MPEG4 stream.

Also, does anyone know how responsive will the PC be when it is busy relaying the media? ]]>Feb 25th 2010 5:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/
Why it has to be MPEG4? why not mpeg2?
Why it has to be DLNA? it may be proprietary

Anyway, we will see when it comes out in June.]]>Feb 25th 2010 6:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/Feb 25th 2010 9:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/cablevisions-new-pc-to-tv-media-relay-slings-pc-media-to-your/
If my computer is connected to my TV through this thing and I have a Slingbox, that means that anything that I can view on my computer I can now view on my BlackBerry. So Hulu, ESPN360, streamed live videos, etc.

...right?]]>Feb 25th 2010 3:53PM