[mythtv-users] Way out idea on watching same thing in multiple rooms

[Matt Emmott]

On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Christopher X. Candreva
<chris at westnet.com>wrote:

>
> I don't think so. Think of two playback units with different sized buffers.
> Without sync data they can be at different points in the multicast stream.
> The stream starts comming in at the same time, but a system waiting for a
> (say) 20 meg buffer to fill will start after one waiting for a 10meg buffer
> to fill. Then when the master pauses, will simple tell the others
> to pause too ? If the master decides to rewind to hear the last line again,
> will the other follow ?
>

I have Charter Cable. When I first hooked up my TV and scanned for QAM
channels, I picked up a ton of blank channels. I'd occasionally see if
anything was on these channels and eventually realized that these were
'open' channels for On Demand. I couldn't choose what show I was watching,
but if somebody else had rented, say, Cars, I could tune in to their session
for free. Eventually Charter encrypted these channels, but it was neat at
the time.

The reason I'm bringing this up is, when whomever bought this content would
pause, rewind or fast forward, I was there with them. I can't say if I ever
lost sync with exactly what they were seeing, but I can say that the
experience was the equivalent of having my own feed off a splitter behind
their STB. So if it's possible over Cable TV Coax, I gotta think there's a
relatively easy way (in theory) to do the same with IPTV.
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