HI all,
Does anyone know if there is a TV tuner you can plug into a PC on your network, and then share the vision out across your lan?

hmm i have no idea but i like the concept.
the problem is tho the other machines would only be able to watch the same one that the TV tuner machine is displaying.

of course you could still be able to control whats being displayed from other pcs(provided the software is written) but they'd all be watching the same thing.

Yeah, I thought the same thing, but thats not really a prob. Ie, at the moment it would be good to have the Aust open streamed across the network. I just dont know how to setup such a thing.

might be able to cheat a little and use something like fraps perhaps.
ive got no idea if it'll stream live across the network
maybe some other prog could do the streaming.

Aha, found this.
sagetv.com

It seems to handle the streaming of tv across the network. Its not too expensive either.

I did this at home using the nullsoft streaming stuff + winamp. It was a bit of a mission but its certainly doable.

It'd probably be a lot easier if you just used Windows Media encoder.

http://www.videolan.org/streaming/

MythTV can do it.

You could for example, start recording a TV show, give it a delay of a few minutes and then playback the video show recording through your front ends.

It does have watch TV live option, but I'm not sure if more than one client can use it (never tried it out).

Yonks ago the VisionPlus DTV-T HDTV card could do this.
Get your Ch9/whatever 1081/720p broadcast signal and tunnel the transport stream to a multicast address on your home LAN and use VLC to view. You could do alot more of course but the uPnP API isn't mature enough yet :( (or rather the hardware surrounding it)