.. wrote:

all this tosh about network speed is willy waving, really. who /really/
wants to push HDTV over wi-fi when there's a far simpler method of
watching movies ?

http://www.mythtv.org/

Or any similar application that requires a high-throughput and
reasonably reliable network. Just because a network-oriented PVR system
is not currently a mainstream application doesn't mean it isn't useful
or desirable to non-specialised users. It's certainly not just
willy-waving.

I'm using MythTV to great success on a wired network, but from what I've
read on the user lists, 802.11G works reasonably well for SD content[1],
assuming the network isn't being degraded by other traffic, the wrong
kind of walls or interference. Which is a fairly large assumption.


Kim.
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[1] MythTV usually streams DVB recordings in the format in which they
were broadcast. Use of timestretch and picture-in-picture will increase
the throughput accordingly. Bandwidth requirements for HDTV left as an
exercise for the reader.