What is Remote TV Viewing?
Remote TV viewing allows a person to view and control their home television set from remote locations. Broadband Internet access is required along with a laptop or video-enabled cell phone, and a remote-viewing product such as a Slingbox, by Sling Media. To enjoy watching TV remotely, one must first setup a network at home, interfacing a remote TV viewing device with the network and home entertainment system. The device connects to the home entertainment center by RCA cables or, preferably, through an available S-Video port. The outgoing audio and video signals from the cable box, personal video recorder (PVR) or digital video recorder (DVR), are routed to the incoming port(s) on the remote TV viewing device. This part of the setup brings your television signal from the entertainment center to the network router. Next the remote TV viewing device is connected to the router with an Ethernet cable so that the television signal can be sent over the Internet. This stage of the setup requir
