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]