[brucehart]

Slingbox seems to have a strong position in this market. It's tougher to stream video from a person's home than from a data center. Most homes with broadband have limited upload speed that makes it difficult to stream good quality video. I'm hoping newer compression algorithms such as HEVC will make it possible to get decent quality even on connections with less than 1 Mbps upload bandwidth.

[gambiting]

Sony was selling exactly this thing....9 years ago. They made LocationFree base stations which would stream your TV signal to your PSP anywhere in the world over the internet. That was incredibly impressive for 2005.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LocationFree_Player

[bengali3]

Does it even need to stream from the house (versus uploaded earlier than requested on my device) ?

Am I as a consumer allowed to store my DVR material on hosted storage then have that stream to me later?

Then can my cloud provider cache and de-dupe content on their environment so that they don't need to have 4 copies of the same episode in cache?

I wonder, can a new company sell set top antennas that perform better than others, because they aggregate signals and can enhance the quality of your dvr material?

[avmich]

You probably don't need to sell the equipment with the idea that it will be installed in homes? Why not to keep person's equipment in data centers?