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Gadget uses Skype to send TV anywhere

Watch out, Slingbox...

Fancy turning your copy of Skype into a watch-anywhere TV viewer? Now you can, courtesy of Japanese company Novac, which today announced a box that turns any suitably-specified PC into a machine for beaming TV shows to anyone on the internet.

The key is in the software. The box itself is an analogue TV tuner - not digital, alas. The code connects the digitised video into a video-conferencing stream that can be sent via a local copy of Skype out to any other machine running the VoIP software. Sending a Skype instant message to the source lets you change channels.

novac tv adaptor for skype

Right now, the system only works with the Windows XP version of Skype - other versions of the communcations tool don't yet support video-conferencing.

It occurs to Reg Hardware that this may be possible with any TV tuner, if you can fool Skype into thinking the gadget is a webcam. Anyone with the right equipment want to give it a whirl and let us all know whether it works?

novac tv adaptor for skype

If not, there's always Novac's TV Adaptor for Skype, which goes on sale in Japan on 14 July for around ¥9,800 ($85/£46/€67). ®

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