Even though DirecTV's website is
ready to start doling out the information on its elusive
Nomad TV box, a post on
Gizmo Lovers digs through the available information to show just how much there is to know, and how much is still unknown. Between on a DirecTV satellite installer training video, a suggestive press release by fellow RVU member Morega and the long running rumor thread over on DBSTalk, the technology in play is certainly capable of both Slingbox style streaming and TiVoToGo sideloading, but what will actually be enabled is unclear. Once it rolls out, the Nomad will connect to
multiroom capable satellite boxes via a wired network connection and transcode the video streams it pulls in for other devices like PCs and mobiles. All the other details are shrouded in rumor, regarding its use of h.264 and how much internal storage is available, but if you're wondering whether the long delayed DirecTV will really be able to compete with Sling,
Monsoon and the flood of
TV-streaming iPad apps available in 2011 then hitting the source link below is a good way to get started.
More DirecTV Nomad info uncovered, but details are still fuzzy originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 29 Aug 2011 10:35:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Makes me wonder what they were hinting about it being “a Sling box competitor”. In order for it to be that, it would need to stream live subscribed channels to your mobile device, which is does not; it would also need to be able to play all your recorded shows to your mobile device as well. The Nomad does that, kind of if 20 hours of shows is all that is on your DVR. Does it do it instantly like the sling box or sling adapter? Once it is on the mobile device, yes; but to encode the program to the right format it takes the same amount of time as the show, and it will delete itself after 30 days. If you have an iPhone that has been jail broken, the app won’t work until you restore it to default as well. Price wise, looking at it from the DISH sling adapter side, the Nomad is $150.00 for all those not so cool features, the sling adapter is $99, but the promotion right now is for free. Even working at DISH doesn’t play into it, there just isn’t any comparison to be made between the two; The Nomad is some content everywhere, while the sling is TV everywhere.
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