Check it.

To expand on my earlier post about running Freeview to my TV via my laptop, I’ve made some improvements and now it’s actually quite good. Here’s what I’ve changed;

• Dumped MediaPortal in favour of dvbviewer, so it’s now stable and I can actually do other things at the same time;
• Bought a 3m HDMI cable so my laptop can reach the couch and the TV;
• Found a $5 S/PDIF to optical adaptor so I can run digital sound directly to my 5.1 speaker system (hopefully something on Freeview actually has surround sound…)

There’s still nothing on, though. ;(

I quite liked this.

Thanks, digg