| Take your home theatre with you when you are | | | | whether it's in your hotel room in the evenings or |
| away | | | | just soaking up the sun. When you get home |
| Do you end up missing important sporting events | | | | you've got hours and hours of recorded satellite |
| or your favourite satellite TV programs when you | | | | TV to watch and no time to watch it. |
| are away on business or on holiday or simply out | | | | Place-shift viewing |
| at work? It's a common problem and until now | | | | What if instead of time-shifting your satellite TV |
| we have had to rely on using Video Cassette | | | | you place-shifted it instead. What do I mean? Well |
| Recorders (VCR) or Digital Video Recorders | | | | what if you could take your home theatre or |
| (DVR) or Tivo boxes to record what we are | | | | satellite TV with you wherever you went. It |
| missing. | | | | sounds too good to be true doesn't it. But that's |
| Having the ability to record things that we don't | | | | exactly what people are starting to do. |
| want to miss is very useful and I expect that | | | | You put a new box on top of your stack of AV |
| you have been using it for years like I have to | | | | equipment, connect it to your home theatre and |
| try and get the most out of my Satellite TV | | | | your home network broadband connection and |
| system. There are problems with this method of | | | | have all the things you want to watch beamed to |
| time-shift viewing however. | | | | your notebook PC, PDA or smartphone wherever |
| Problems with time-shift viewing | | | | you are. |
| The first problem is programming the VCR or | | | | How does place-shift viewing work? |
| DVR. I seem to get it wrong about half the time. | | | | Take the audio and video (AV) output from your |
| Either I select the wrong channel or the wrong | | | | home theatre and connect it to a piece of |
| time or the clock is incorrectly set or I forget to | | | | hardware that digitises it and beams it to the |
| press the timer button. I'm sure that you are | | | | Internet. Wherever you are in the world, providing |
| better at it than I am and advances in technology | | | | that you can make a broadband connection to |
| have tried to make it easier for us but there is | | | | the Internet, you can now watch the TV that is |
| still that insecure feeling that I might not record | | | | being streamed from your home system in real |
| what I wanted to record. | | | | time. You really can now watch that NFL game |
| Time-shift viewing is great for recording soaps | | | | online that you thought you were going to miss. |
| and films to watch when you get home but it isn't | | | | The system isn't just one-way either. You are |
| much good when you want to watch a live event | | | | able to use the new equipment to control you're |
| like a football game. At least half the excitement | | | | the devices in your home allowing you to change |
| is watching the game as it is played. | | | | channel or rewind the DVR etc remotely. This |
| Do you get time to watch everything that you've | | | | means that you can watch what your DVR has |
| recorded? If you are away on business or on | | | | recorded as well as watching live TV. |
| holiday then you probably get loads of free time | | | | |