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MY-IPTV Anywhere provides an inexpensive solution for catching the shows you want, on your home channels, when you’re not home. The software allows you to deliver your home or local TV programs to anywhere in the world as long as you have broadband internet access (like Slingbox and Sony’s Location Free TV).

TV programs are delivered to you using MY-IPTV Anywhere’s built-in MPEG-4, H.264 software compression technology. Soon you will also be able to pause, rewind and play live TV programs utilizing MY-IPTV Anywhere’s PVR function. Once you have registered with honestech’s online membership, connection to your home PC and local TV programs is just a click away. The connection is peer to peer so you can be assured of a secure connection. You can also burn recorded TV programs onto a DVD.

The product sells online for an average of $130, which is about $50 less than Sling Media charges for its comparable Slingbox Tuner hardware. Other place-shifting hardware for viewing TV remotely--such as Monsoon Multimedia’s HAVA Wireless HD and Pinnacle’s PCTV To Go--are even more expensive, at $250.

My-IPTV can’t do all the things that high-end place-shifting hardware can. But if you want a cheap way to watch your favorite midday soap opera and to keep tabs on Fido as he sleeps on your living-room floor while you are in a remote location, My-IPTV & Cam Anywhere is a great option.

Read [Hones Tech] Via [PC World] Via [Boston]

You ask what the difference between the Ojo video phone of now and the AT&T VideoPhone 2500 from 1992 is? Well where can I start… Should we discuss the price difference of the $1,000+ AT&T retro model and the entry level Ojo PVP 900 for $299? What about the jagged 10 frames per second verses video quality 30 fps? How about we just rundown the features…

The Ojo Global Video Service (the only one of it’s kind in the world)is delivered through cable, DSL, VoIP and satellite service providers as well as through retail stores. The Ojo video phone uses the industry standard video protocols for voice and video compression (H.264) to achieve quality at data rates of 100 Kbps. Ojo customers connect their Ojo personal video-phone to their broadband networks to experience true-to-life video communications.

The Ojo video phones come in two product lines.  The Ojo (PVP 1000), which has a bit more bells and whistles, for $399, and the Ojo “Shadow” (PVP 900), for $299. The price point for the video service is very low, $14.95 per month- unlimited calls throughout the world.

Will video phones take off? All I cna say is, we will see (no pun intended).

Read [Ojo]