Hello,

If we have a HD DirecTV satellite system (don't have it yet, but may get one soon), can we possibly stream the live HD satellite signal to multiple TVs in the house?

Basically, HD DirecTV receiver sends HD signal to Hauppauge HD-PVR, which sends video and audio signals (via component video cables and Toslink audio cable) to a home-brew HTPC, running something (currently BeyondTV, but we are open to whatever works), which then sends the live TV signal over the house LAN to some media extender (Netgear EVA8000? Dvico TViX?), which receives the HD TV signal and presto! you can watch the live HD signal on a remote TV?

Is this possible? asking the impossible?

Sorry if this seems an off-center topic for this forum. It was between this and the HTPC forum, but I thought maybe this would be better overall.

Thanks!

Suspect we'll have to wait until the Hauppauge device hits the market to see how it can be used.

I expect that what you want to do will be do-able, eventually, with Windows Media Center and the new generation of H264 compatible Media Center Extenders BUT we have to wait for MCE to be updated to include H264 compatibility for Live TV (at the moment it only deals with MPEG2) This is not just a requirement for the Hauppauge device (which compresses HD component to H264 not MPEG2 in hardware) but also for European OTA and satellite HD broadcasts, which are also in H264.

SageTV and some of the open-source projects like MythTV might get there first - as might GBPVR which is already working with the Popcorn Hour for live TV.

(We're waiting for the PCH to support user applications - at the moment most applications have to run on the PC and serve web pages to implement the UI which is a bit klunky and means no OSD during playback)

(We're waiting for the PCH to support user applications - at the moment most applications have to run on the PC and serve web pages to implement the UI which is a bit klunky and means no OSD during playback)Thats not the case any more. GB-PVR now has a client application that runs natively on the PCH, and gives a high resolution fast GB-PVR user interface. No klunky web pages. (the PCH player does do the playback of the files though, so you end up with the PCH OSD instead of the normal GB-PVR playback OSD)