I lunched yesterday with the infamous Robert J. Elisberg, columnist for the Huffington Post and blogger at his own website. Bob is back from Las Vegas and the Consumer Electronics Show and he has now filed his final report on new technological unveilings there, with a special emphasis on stuff for us writers.
When we got back, I showed Bob a new electronic acquisition in my life: The Belkin @TV. This is a device you hook up to your cable box or DVR (in my case, the latter) and it ports the output of that component to an Internet stream you can access remotely. So I can go on my iPhone, my iPad, my laptop or any computer with a web connection and I can watch whatever's on my TiVo, including the live feed from my satellite dish. I can also program my TiVo remotely. It works rather well if what you're watching on has a good, high-speed Internet connection; less well if the connection ain't as good. I'll write more about it after I've played with it more.