Streaming Live TV on iPad - Stream iPhone and iPod Touch Tuner

You can now stream live TV on iPad2, iPhone and iPod Touch. American company Hauppauge Digital a developer of analog and digital television tuners announced last week that it has developed cards for PCs that will stream live TV. This is an exciting development for Apple consumers, it begs the question what can’t you use your iPad, iPhone and iPod for? You can read comics, get the weather, read books and of course play games on your new iPad. Streaming TV is hugely popular for sports and music fans.

Hauppauge Digital announced that it’s WinTV-HVR TV tuner cards for PCs are designed to stream live TV on iPad; iPhone and iPod Touch from a user's home over the Internet. There is also WinTV Extend feature that enables your to stream LV over your Apple Macintosh computer if it supports a Safari Web browser. WinTV Extend works as a built-in Internet video server for the latest WinTV v7.2 application. Netflix also offers great options for your iPad.

The Hauppauge website lists the features of WinTV v7 as follows.

• A new, clear and intuitive interface
• Digital parental control (North America)
• Digital closed captions (North America)
• Single configuration and scanning pop up menu
• High Definition TV and video support (selected models)
• Integrated TV recording scheduler
• Instant time shift and recording
• Multiple tuner support
• Built-in video player, which supports a wide variety of video formats
• Logical channel numbers
• Signal strength monitor for digital TV channels

The WinTV v7.2 application which includes WinTV Extend will be available directly from Hauppauge for $9.95.

Hauppauge Digital is an American company co-founded by CEO Kenneth Plotkin in 1992. Plotkin worked at Intel Corp for eight years. 

Hauppauge Digital products are designed for the personal computer market. These products enable you to record your favorite TV programs to a PC's hard disk, (not unlike your DVR or Tivo). The products receive digital TV data transmissions and then display the digital media that is stored on a computer. The computer is connected to television through a home network. 

Hauppauge Digital reported 59 million in revenue for the fiscal year ended September 2009. Its main competitors are with ATI Technologies Inc, a division of Advanced Micro Devices, Sony Corp, Toshiba Corp, and Cisco Systems in the consumer electronics market. 

Hauppauge Digital Stock Jumped 60%

The significance of the news stream live TV on iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch over the Internet is shown in the stock market’s reaction to the news. Hauppauge Digital shares leapt 60 percent on Friday, the day after the announcement  

After the general market weakened and profit taking the shares settled back to up around 40 percent at $4.19 on NASDAQ. Earlier the stock was up 60% at a two-year high of $4.85. By the afternoon more than 25 million shares changed hands. This was over 800 times their 10-day moving average volume according to market news sites. The reaction to the announcement that you can stream live TV on iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch is an indication as to how significant the investment community values Apple’s influence on the consumer.