Has anyone found any good mobile TV solutions besides ORB and Slingbox? Im talking about streaming solutions kinda like Sprint TV (which us ppc users cant get I hear). Has anyone found any good third parties pay or free??

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Try SmartVideo. It has faster frame rates and works great on the 6700 with EVDO. I also use it on my iMate JAM 128 with TMobile's slow data and it is tolerable.

http://www.smartvideo.com/index.html

Thanks I will try them out now. They have some good channels.

The monthly charge is more expensive than MobiTV. I may just give MobiTV another month or two to see if they port the product over to the mobile 5 platform. They claim they are working on it but at this point one has to wonder what the hangup is with them.

I tried MobiTV and their frame rate is pretty sad, tops out around 10 frames per sec. I'm getting upwards of 20 frames per sec on the smartvideo service with the Sprint EVDO.

Your mileage may vary.

Is that a fair comparison? Is it because smartvideo has a better frame rate or will MobiTV have equivalent speeds when on EVDO? When I used MobiTV it was on the 1x network.

Ok I am a sucker for a challenge. Not really a challenge except for missing MobiTV. I installed SmartVideo and yes, it is cool. Right now I am on my broadband network using Wifi and it is fantastic. I will see how it looks when I just have 1x access. The other thing I love is the ability to listen to it over the bluetooth earpiece. Not being able to use bluetooth on the Treo650 for watching MobiTv was a real bummer.

I really enjoy SmartVideo - it's really worth the cost for me.

(I also use Snapstream for taping programs....combined the 2 solutions rock.)

I am also enjoying it and they do have a lot of content. My biggest criticism is many of the choices are clippings. MobiTV also had clippings but I do believe they have more live TV content. They have Discovery and Cspan as well as the live channels these guys have which include MSNBC, CNBC and ABC news live. SmartVideo does have live weather channel as well as weather channel clippings where MobiTV just had clippings of it. Considering the fact that it is more expensive than MobiTV I expected a few more live channels. Unless this is corrected I will consider MobiTV again if and when they have a Mobile 5 version.

On the positive side the choices of clippings is generous. Time will tell how often they refresh the choices.

One thing I have noticed the backgrounds were dark and difficult to view at times on MobiTV and this is not the case with SmartVideo. Of course that may have been a function of the Treo screen rather than the service.

It seems like slingbox and tivo to go could be achieved with Windows Media Center Edition and some kind of file/FTP server - using WMCE to record and store the recording on a HD you can access via the Internet after the recording is complete. Anyone doing this?

I use BeyondTV (Snapstream) for this. I run 2 capture cards in the machine. One can do Hardware Mpeg encoding (primary recording card for shows). The other does software encoding. For whatever reason, the software can only stream live tv with software encoding. This is my main computer as well. The benefit is that the hardware encoding makes it so I can still used my computer even when recording shows. I only used the software encoding to stream live tv, which means I am not using my PC so I don't care about the processor hit.

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