“The battle for your cord-cutting dollars continues to heat up,” reports Wired. “Hardware for streaming, time-shifting (recording to DVR), or place-shifting (watching your TV content on mobile devices) continues to flood the market, promising to take up all your precious HDMI ports.”
The Simple.TV DVR streamer, which began shipping on Monday, does all those things and keeps ports available for other devices, like game consoles.
The product is a DVR that doesn’t actually connect to the TV, but instead connects to over-the-air HDTV signals or cable TV and then streams content to iOS devices, browsers and Roku boxes.
“With a $50-a-year subscription, users can send streams over the Internet to up to five devices at once,” explains the article. “How might this come in handy? Say the latest episode of ‘The Walking Dead’ is about to come on, and you’re at the airport and days away from being able to watch it on your DVR. With this service, you can open up your iPad and watch whenever and wherever you want.”
“The DVR lacks internal storage and requires an external USB drive to use the DVR capabilities,” notes Wired of the device’s limitations. “The single coaxial input limits the recording feature to one show at a time. And without a subscription, cool features like scheduling an entire series won’t work. Finally, the device doesn’t work with encrypted channels, leaving premium networks like HBO and Showtime out of the streaming fun.”
“The battle for your cord-cutting dollars continues to heat up,” reports Wired. “Hardware for streaming, time-shifting (recording to DVR), or place-shifting (watching your TV content on mobile devices) continues to flood the market, promising to take up all your precious HDMI ports.”
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