Sat TV over CAT 5?

[HairyArsedBloke]

Does anyone know if this is possible, or how it is done?

I went to see some serviced offices on Friday. Here at home I have Bloomberg TV wittering on in the background. More for company than information. Loads of trading floors have sat tv and I was wondering if this sort of thing is possible over cat 5 or what ever?

Additional: I know I can get Bloomberg TV over the internet, but that would eat into the 256K pp bandwidth they allocate as standard.

[51st State]

Looks like you need something like this:

http://lynxbroadband.com/

http://lynxbroadband.com/PDFs/Satell...obcat-AVIR.pdf

Not sure where they are stocked in the UK. Let me know if you find out; it's something I'm thinking of too

[hyperD]

I'm looking into something similar for this year.

I've asked about this before but it appears to be too early in the technology/consumer market curve but I want to get in there quick.

I have CAT6 wiring around the house and I want to be able to stream video/audio images from a central server connected to the internet via my LAN network (PCs all connect up fine around the house).

I also want be be able to view this stream from LCD monitors (not PCs) and be able to use a remote control to inform the server to "change the channel/source".

I do not want Freeview tuners in the server (I've cancelled my TV licence ages ago) but just DVD racks, internet streamed stuff, iPlayer type.

Here are two links that I've found:

Exterity

RM.com

I'm not very up on all the TVIP hardware although I remember seeing a software product that could stream media via a server on a network. There are some boxes that will take a network stream and convert it to video for a LCD display.

I'm sure there must be a fairly low cost option to do all the above before it hits mainstream?

Any clues?

[VectraMan]

Do you want to send the satellite signal over CAT 5, or do you want to send a video signal over CAT5? Cos that's very different.

[HairyArsedBloke]

Do you want to send the satellite signal over CAT 5, or do you want to send a video signal over CAT5? Cos that's very different.

All I want is a telly in my office so I can watch Bloomberg TV.

[pmeswani]

All I want is a telly in my office so I can watch Bloomberg TV.

Slingbox from Slingmedia might help you here.

http://www.slingmedia.com/

[HairyArsedBloke]

Slingbox from Slingmedia might help you here.

http://www.slingmedia.com/

I can get it streaming over the net already either from their site or via something like zattoo. The problem with those sort of solutions is that it eats into the bandwith allocated to each desk (256K). I was looking at having a separate physical solution.

[doodab]

There are a couple of things that will let you receive a TV signal in one place and watch it somewhere else.

Slingbox - a standalone box that you plug your satellite receiver into, which can then be watched from anywhere

VideoLan / VLC will allow you to stream video over a network.

GB-PVR can work as a client / server system, I'm not sure if it allows watching live TV or just recordings though.

Of course the downside of this is that you need a satellite receiver and/or TV card equipped PC somewhere and a suitable network between the receiver and wherever you want to watch it.

Edit: cross posted. You aren't going to get satellite TV without having a dish somewhere. How about cable TV? Or something like this: http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=48737

You will of course need to mount it outside and pointing in the right direction

[pmeswani]

I can get it streaming over the net already either from their site or via something like zattoo. The problem with those sort of solutions is that it eats into the bandwith allocated to each desk (256K). I was looking at having a separate physical solution.

It's a tough problem you have there. I would have suggested a reverse proxy which will should fool the streaming application into thinking that there is only 1 client making the request, but I don't think that would address your problem.

I assume that Sky Player on the desktop is out of the question then?

[hyperD]

I've had another look at TVIP and it's really taken off since I last looked.

The device I am looking at to connect an LCD monitor or TV without a tuner to a LAN is a set top box such as this or this.

These have an IR detector for a remote so I'm assuming this information could be sent via the LAN to the server.

The server could host VideoLAN or GBPVR.

I'm assuming I could setup the remote device to change different streaming channels on VideoLAN or simply select any video files to stream or from the DVD?

I'm going to google and see if there are any low cost solutions already setup.