Engadget recently found a teaser page on the DirecTV website that speaks about a "Nomad," a little box that promises to take your movies and TV from your home DVR out to the rest of the world (no relation, supposedly, to my favorite portable game console, the Sega Nomad). Details are slim, but it sounds very much like the Slingbox, in that it will take all kinds of signals from DirecTV, and send them out to all kinds of other mobile devices. In other words, DirecTV subscribers may soon have a way to watch their television service from anywhere right on their iOS device.
Gizmolovers has a whole bunch of information on the service, including that the box might possibly cost as much as $ 150 on its own. And unfortunately, there's no official word on this at all, which means no actual date to wait or even hope for just yet. But stay tuned, DirecTV subscribers -- you may end up watching TV on your iPad through that service sooner than you think.
DirecTV working on 'Nomad,' may provide streaming to iOS originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Mon, 29 Aug 2011 20:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Apparently people have a lot of time to download and manage their recordings on their Nomad AND PC or iOS device but I have TV Everywhere with my Sling adapter because I DON’T have time. Since when did saving time ever go to the wayside? I’ve had my Sling adapter with my DISH Network employee service for over a year now and although I don’t watch live TV all the time I really like the fact that if my DVR is full and I want to watch TV I don’t have to delete anything. In fact, since my wife doesn’t watch her shows fast enough that is likely to happen more often than not. I watch on my phone which doesn’t have enough memory to hold that many shows anyway and I don’t have time to download everything after waiting for it to convert like the Nomad requires.