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Cablevision gets better at letting you watch TV away from home
Whether it is on a smartphone, tablet or laptop, being able to watch live television outside your home network is pretty great. Cablevision, through the Optimum App, has been letting its cable customers do this for some time now, but it's about to get much better. The service provider today announced that it is baking the "TV to Go" feature right into its Optimum App, allowing you to have access to over 100 channels even when you're away from home. This includes both live and on-demand content, from networks such as beIN Sports, CNN, Disney, ESPN, NBC, NFL and a lot more -- naturally, access to these will be determined by which Optimum TV package you pay for. The revamped Optimum App service is available now on the web, iOS, Android and Kindle Fire tablets.
Choosing the right TV-to-Go
Julio Ojeda-Zapata writes about picking the right TV-to-go in a recent Pioneer Press article. It's an interesting article, because he comes at it from a Windows Media Center point of view instead of looking at the many Windows-based solutions that produce iPod- and PSP-compatible video. He compares the iPod, the Archos 604, and the Philips Portable Media Center, staying focused on the to-go aspects of each. As a portable video watching device he found the iPod to be "painful" and "cramped", a fair criticism with its tiny screen. The other two players scored higher for their larger screens and their PlaysForSure compatibility, a feature that probably would never come into my own personal scoring system. As for getting Media Center video onto the iPod, Ojeda-Zapata mentions two possible solutions: Roxio's MyTV ToGo and burning to DVD and then ripping. That's just a little too Rube Goldberg for my tastes.
