TV, Radio, Errrr!

J

J-Mar

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Just a wild question.

I was wondering if there was a way to transform your T3 into a radio or tv? For example, some sort of SD card format hardware that would allow the T3 to catch TV or radio transmissions.

When I think about it, it sounds totally crazy and probably ridiculous but hey! you never know., :D
 
I'm not a multi media guy or game guy, but you know who might do that? XM Satellite radio.

They've been forward thinking enough so far . . . I'm going to get that product since I spend a lot of time in the car . . . and apparently they have a removeable cradle so you click it on your HOME stereo and have it there, too . . .

Just a matter of time til THEY might consider the handheld market.

What a cool idea!! I'd rather have cable news channels on XM Radio, listening to interviews LIVE via T3 than spend time surfing the web for their websites anyway!

YOu should immediately PATENT that and present it to XM.

We might see you waving from the yacht in 3 months!!
 
It's not so crazy at all. There is a SIDO FM radio card that's available for many Palm models, including the T3. You can get it at http://store.yahoo.com/ibizpda/sdppo.html for a limited time offer for $40. The only problem is that you can't use any programs you may have on your SD card while listening to the radio.

TV is not going to happen though. The Palm screen doesn't meet the standards you'd need for TV video and you need a heck of big SIDO card and antenna even if it did.:)
 
Well there are ways and means. TV anywhere no, but WiFi and Bluetooth of course, provide us with other options.

I have an Ipaq 4150. It was a doddle to set it up as a TV, and a damn good one at that! Using the TV card in my PC, I used Windows Media Encoder to capture the TV as it happened and broadcast via my WiFi router. Then all I had to do was tune in to the broadcast in Windows Media Player on my PPC. The quality was incredible (brilliant). I just encoded to about 700Kbps wmv with 128kbps mp3 audio, resized the TV input 640x480>320x240.

Aanyway same is possible with T3. Using VLC to transcode live input to DivX and broadcast it over WiFi, then picking it up in MMPlayer. I don't have a WiFi card, so I've never tried it. Yes, you can do it with Bluetooth too, but there is a limit of around 150Kbps for recieving a Bluetooth broadcast. (I know the theoretical maximum speed is much more than that, but trust me there is a small limit for this kind of thing. I forget why but I find out and explain if you wish...) So Bluetooth would only allow for very bad quality broadcast.

Anyway, so it is theortically possible to do, using your own WiFi network and a PC. I can maybe help more if you wanna try it.....

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I would love to try it!
We could then write a small "how to"!

But using a WiFi network would mean you cannot use it "anywhere" which beats the point of it. I didnt intend to use it near my computer, I could simply turn the tv(or the radio) on :p

It was more for those lonely waits at shops or wherever you wish you had a small tv(i.e.:your friend's wedding)!

I wonder if you could tranform the little microphone on your T3 into a walkie talkie device! EH! That would be NEAT :D
 
Lol. It has to be said though, that WiFi hotspots are appearing all over the place, and I expect eventually there will be many TV stations broadcasting over the internet. Radio is definately possible, just get an internet connection from a WiFi hotspot, find a station at www.shoutcast.com and click on it (using web-pro) and Pocket-Tunes (if you have it - and I think the deluxe version is needed) will start playing the radio station.

Walkie-takie device- yes, again using WiFi. Sorry but again, I'm gonna use my PPC for the example. It is of course possible on a T3 too, I just don't know if the software exists (yet). On my PPC, I can use Skype (Voice over IP software) to make phone calls as long as I have an internet connection (again, where there's a WiFi hotspot.)

I would expect you could have an Ad-Hoc connection between two Pda's within range of each other, and use them as walkie talkies without needing net access. It's certainly theoretcally possible, but I don't think the software exists, at least not for Palms :(.
One of the developers of MMPlayer was working one a project like that, called MPhone, but it seems to have been dumped as I haven't heard anything about it for a long while :(
 
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