Has anybody found anything that will receive terrestrial digital TV and either send it via wifi to a tablet or just plug into an iPad to turn the iPad into a tv? No android stuff here :)
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If you have wifi, you have TV. Unfortunately, you can't watch realtime TV (news casts, current programming, etc) online unless you subscribe to Netflix, Hulu, or one of the satellite providers. There's always a catch. Trust me, I've looked into this from many angles. If anyone knows of a loophole, I'm all ears (rabbit ears if you're near enough to a city of any size)
Will
It's not a "loophole", but if you have wi-fi, and service at your home base (or friend or family's place?), Slingbox uploads all your content for viewing while on-the-move.
Paul
There were analog plugins that meant you could receive tv on a tablet without paying for internet r even having internet. They're available fir pcs but I'm struggling to find the digital equivalent for tablets. I just want to be able to watch free over the air tv without paying for internet.
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We use an omnidirectional antenna , 12 volt tv, and a digital to analog converter box. Lots of channels when we come south. Raymond
Quote from: GilligCrown on August 29, 2017, 03:44:29 PM
It's not a "loophole", but if you have wi-fi, and service at your home base (or friend or family's place?), Slingbox uploads all your content for viewing while on-the-move.
Paul
There's the catch Paul, you have to have service at your home. When you log on they ask for your Dish, Direct, etc account before you can watch. If you don't have a home service, you can't watch... And yet, porn is always free, go figure ??? Of course, that's just what everyone tells me. ;) I don't have any real world experience in that matter, just ask my wife ;)
Quote from: Raymond smith on August 29, 2017, 05:09:32 PM
We use an omnidirectional antenna , 12 volt tv, and a digital to analog converter box. Lots of channels when we come south. Raymond
Yeah, that's the killer. It needs a TV etc. I already have a tablet. I just need one of those $20 gizmos that work with Android but I need one that works with iPad. So far the "universal" ones have sucky Software for iOS.
It's looking a lot like tv is just inaccessible. I don't want to throw money at a TV or at an Internet connection that's going to burn through data faster than a strip club burns through their customers cash.
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Doing a quick internet search I found this https://tablet-tv.com/
I have no idea if it works, it's just something you might find useful.
Caveat emptor.
Quote from: scott332 on August 30, 2017, 05:56:49 AM
Doing a quick internet search I found this https://tablet-tv.com/
I have no idea if it works, it's just something you might find useful.
Caveat emptor.
Yeah. That's one I looked into. The website advertises it at $90 then pushes you to Amazon which lists it as unavailable.
The more I did into this, the sketchier everything looks. It's probably like all these neat gizmos - they cost money, don't work well and if you can get it to work it's such a pain that it gets used half a dozen times then put in the junk drawer and later either tossed out or donated.
RCA has a 7 inch tv tablet that is $55 but has awful views.
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Zephod,
HDHomerun. Real device.
https://www.silicondust.com/hdhomerun/ (https://www.silicondust.com/hdhomerun/)
You could go to salvation army or goodwill stores and pick up a small tv with antenna, some battery powered. Almost the entire US is covered by vhf & uhf hdtv signals. You can use an old style NTSC tv with a HDTV converter, still available at Frys and best buy, and maybe walmart. Make sure you get at least a rabbit ear vhf/uhf antennas as a lot of signals gave been moved to uhf. A tin can is not a great place to get a radio signal, put it outside or at the window facing the antenna mountain. I picked up a small hdtv LCD t v for under $100 . lvmci...
I think I might just go old school and read a book. This electronic stuff is all looking either expensive, sketchy, awkward or power hungry.
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To me old school is a tube TV! Never stopped reading, lvmci...
Yeah, anytime you want to take a digital OTA signal and transcode it down to a bitrate that an ipad can handle, and then transmit it over an ad-hoc wifi network to a tablet to view. Power and money. I do it at home with a product called plex every day. I'll find a way to put it onboard our bus.
Quote from: j.m.jackson on August 30, 2017, 08:38:24 AMYeah, anytime you want to take a digital OTA signal and transcode it down to a bitrate that an ipad can handle, and then transmit it over an ad-hoc wifi network to a tablet to view. Power and money. I do it at home with a product called plex every day. I'll find a way to put it onboard our bus.
Ummm, what's a "TV" and what's an "Ipad" -- I don't own either.
As I watched the transition from NTSC (old 4X3 tv tubes) to HDTV (720P & 1080I) the system is called 8VSB, that we are now using and hearing the tv truck engineers talking about the engineering, I was amazed. When the cameras we started using were 1080P, I couldnt believe the clarity and incredible pictures, but now we're using 4K cameras! And we still can't broadcast 1080P signals, because it takes too much bandwith. The viewing public will feel like they're in movie theaters at home, when this all settles in, lvmci...
My old Wiengard powered antenna does remarkably well at picking on air tv.Around Charleston or Raleigh I get forty + channels and even here in Asheville with all our humps and bumps I pick up fifteen channels The only place that I have been where I could pick up absolutely nothing was on the OBX .And when I say nothing I mean nothing!!
Z,
I know your desire is to make the most of your stuff but it seems clear to me that the most hassle free and low cost thing is to just go get a small new tv. You can get a refurb for less than a 100 bucks and any old antenna and be in business.
I bought a cheap "HDTV" antenna then learned HDTV signals are captured by any old UHF/VHF antenna.
Quote from: windtrader on August 30, 2017, 10:55:55 AM
Z,
I know your desire is to make the most of your stuff but it seems clear to me that the most hassle free and low cost thing is to just go get a small new tv. You can get a refurb for less than a 100 bucks and any old antenna and be in business.
I bought a cheap "HDTV" antenna then learned HDTV signals are captured by any old UHF/VHF antenna.
A pot plant makes a good antenna too :) choose one with a good woody stem and drive the coax core into it.
I was thinking more on the lines that it's something that should be available... something to convert TV to wifi or similar. Turns out there are things around to do similar but they look like they're pretty sketchy - or expensive.
If such a thing was reliably available, I'd go for it but as it is, I'll stick with what I have and pass on TV.
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I have one of these in my home, might have to bring it on the road with me.
https://www.amazon.com/SiliconDust-HDHomeRun-CONNECT-broadcast-2-Tuner/dp/B00GY0UB54 (https://www.amazon.com/SiliconDust-HDHomeRun-CONNECT-broadcast-2-Tuner/dp/B00GY0UB54)
It's called an HD Homerun, these newer ones transcode the OTA signal to an h264 format the tablet / iphone / computer / whatever can watch easily.
Just last Sunday I was watching NFL on my iPhone from it. They are pretty cool devices, they'll work with Kodi, Plex and other systems made for cord cutting to get watch live TV.