December 18, 2007

Orb to Now Stream to Your iPhone and iPod

Orb Networks has just updated their software to now allow you to stream to your iPhone and iPod. We have been playing around with this software for awhile and we never really got into it for the home, but we could see huge reasons why we would love this on a mobile device. For those of you not familiar with what Orb is, it is a service you run on your computer at home. You tell it where your media is and then it allows you to share it on the web. They create a web page for you that has access to all of your media. It is all password protected and whatnot so your media isn't just flying around out there, but it is a nice presentation and a nice way to access your content from remote locations.

Like we said, we haven't been huge fans of the service since we are either home or at the office, both places where we have all of our media. We do see the huge benefit of having this work on the iPhone though. Imagine you are out and about and you want to check out that new show that you just downloaded. Well fire up your iPhone, login to your web portal, and what do you, there it is. No need to wait to get home, just start viewing right there and then. There is a pretty cool video over at myitablet showing off how it all works. It looks pretty slick. The quality is pretty amazing and we can't see any serious loss of frames at all from the one video they showed streaming. Any of you iPhone users out there should get on this and let us know what you think. We aren't cool enough yet to own an iPhone so we can only sit back and imagine how fun it would be to have this running.