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by epakai 1217 days ago
This would be cool if I could broadcast to our set top boxes. My folks don't get along with streaming interfaces, but they can flip to a channel.

edit: I might have it totally wrong, but our STB is QAM/IP. With a QAM modulator it might be possible to transmit on the coax segment, and have the provider's box decode it. The modulators are pricy though, and I'm not sure about putting our own signal back down the (fios) coax segment.
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goosedragons 1217 days ago
Nobody make an open source IPTV STB-style interface yet for something like the RPi? I imagine it'd be easier to make something like that, have a bunch of "channels" and it just changes the IP address of the video. Some of the earliest IPTV providers actually had unencrypted streams so it's not even that different!
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krapp 1217 days ago
My phone will let me stream whatever I'm watching to a tv set, so I assume any modern smartphone/tv combination will allow that.
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epakai 1216 days ago
They get lost at switching the TV input to another device. Just injecting a QAM channel would be something they could use.
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