Is there digital Broadcast TV - OTA HD in the VI
I just looked into the Slingbox option you mentioned. It appears that with a Slingbox Pro and the HD Connect cable I should theoretically be able to broadcast HD content from my home in the Seattle suburbs to STX. Is there any known reason why this wouldn't work? (I'm assuming that one of the broadband providers is reliable enough to serve as the backbone for this)
Thanks.
GoodToGo,
I have no doubt that you can sling a 16:9 aspect ratio video stream down to STX but not a true HD video stream. The bandwidth requirements are too high. I'm not sure what you have in Seattle these days (I used to live out on Redmond-Fall City Rd when I worked at Microsoft) but down here the best that I have found for residential is about 1.8Mbps. This is far less than needed for HD. It has nothing to do with reliability. Network access is pretty reliable these days.
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