Here’s yet another good news for the iPhone users as Hauppauge Digital, Inc. has announced that their WinTV-HVR TV tuner boards for PCs can now stream live TV over the Internet on the Apple device. It will also support the iPad, Pod Touch and any Apple Macintosh computer that supports a Safari web browser.
Hauppauge’s ‘WinTV Extend’ has powered the Apple device with live TV which will be a feature in Hauppauge’s new WinTV v7.2 application. The device can be connected to Internet and Wi-Fi to now watch Live TV, owing to WinTV Extend. Well it doesn’t stop there. The WinTV v7.2 application not only serves its user with the benefit of watching Live TV but also TV recording is now possible to PCs equipped with a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR TV tuner.
Live TV will be offered in both standard definition and HDTV into Windows based PCs. What the new, powered WinTV Extend feature will do is that it will take the live TV signal and transmit it over the Internet where it can be received through the Safari web browser. The users of WinTV-HVR TV tuner and WinTV Extend running on a PC at home and enjoying a supported Apple device can watch live TV from their home sent over the Internet to their Apple device screen, anywhere in the world.
The TV tuner channel list will be displayed on the side of the live TV image incase of large screen iPad or a Mac computer. But, on the iPhone and iPod touch, users will be able to switch between the displays of the TV channel list and live TV.
The WinTV v7.2 application will include WinTV Extend and will be available directly from Hauppauge at a cost of $9.95. Also, the current users of WinTV-HVR’s can upgrade to WinTV v7.2.