Sony LF-B10 LocationFree Base Station

Average customer rating: 4.0

TV Junkies Dream!
Works Beautifully
Great Product
Pain to set up
Works great! Only flaw is the single license of the player

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Sony LF-B10 LocationFree Base Station

Manufacturer: Sony
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B000I62XHY
2006-10-15

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Amazon.com Product Description

Prepare to experience entertainment on your terms, wherever you like. Sony's LocationFree system offers a flexible, easy-to-use way to enjoy so-called "place shifting" technology. The system is built around a Base Station, either the Sony LF-B10, or the Sony LF-B20, which adds wireless networking capabilities.

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The LocationFree TV Box pictured above is a key accessory, allowing you to view the content being served by your LocationFree Base Station on the TV of your choice. </td></tr> </table> Both products can stream live television and other video content through a home network or across the Internet to remote devices, inside and outside your home. Local clients can connect wirelessly (offered by the Sony LF-B20 only) or via a wired link, depending on the Base Station model you select. When you are away from home, accessing the Base Station is as easy as logging onto the Internet. Adding the LocationFree TV Box, which is a true plug-and-play device, lets you connect to any TV and stream the content served by the LocationFree Base Station in your home to the TV of your choice.

Total Entertainment Mobility
Wherever you go, your home entertainment will follow. With LocationFree, every show, every movie, all your created video, and even live moments can be where you are. Watch live TV, TV programming recorded on a digital video recorder (DVR), stored digital video, digital camcorder content, and more. After logging in on a compatible device, you can watch live TV, change channels, and access and control any additional audio-visual devices hooked up to the system, such as satellite or cable TV tuners or video disc players. With LocationFree, you are in complete control. The LocationFree system, which relies on Sony's NetAV streaming technology, is compatible with a wide range of devices, including the Sony PSP, Windows and Mac OS X computers, and TVs. Support for Windows Mobile devices is coming in the Fall of 2006.

<table align=right width=300 cellpadding=20> <tr> <td> <img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/detail-page/locationfree-1-080906.jpg" border=0 align=top>LocationFree lets you view live TV programs, saved DVR programs, and much more on a wide range of devices. All you need is a broadband Internet connection. </td></tr></table> Looks Good, Easy to Install
Sleekly designed to fit nicely into your existing home theater outfit, the Base Station features a stylish "piano" finish. The unit can be set vertically or horizontally. Of course, if you choose the LF-B20 Base Station, you can set your system up wirelessly, adding LocationFree to your home entertainment system without cluttering it up.

Connecting the Base Station is simple and it includes automatic set-up for accessing the Base Station when you're away from home. The handy set-up wizard whisks you through the software set-up process, including automatic device registration and automatic set-up for pre-installed security software. The onscreen remote control function makes it easy to navigate your media and services, and the fact that it's equipped with a learning function means that you can replace other remote control devices and control your home theater components through a single, cool-looking graphical user interface.

Great Compatibility
The LocationFree system is designed to deliver entertainment to wide range of devices. As mentioned, you can watch your favorite TV shows, videos, and more on a PSP, a Windows PC, a Mac (running OS X or later), or Windows Mobile devices (coming Fall 2006). And with the LocationFree TV Box, you can communicate with the Base Station and watch your entertainment content without the use of a computer at all.

Advanced Encoding and DVR Pass-through
LocationFree employs advanced networking and video technologies such as the AVC Codec and NetAV streaming for smooth access to video content via the Internet. The use of the AVC (advanced video coding) codec--also called the h.264 codec--means higher picture quality even at lower bit rates, which is how you're able to take the experience of entertainment in your living room to hotels, coffee shops, airports, or anywhere else you have broadband access.

The LocationFree system also supports DVR pass-through. You've programmed your digital video recorder to save your favorite TV shows for you to watch, and LocationFree makes it possible for you to actually watch them, even if you can't get home to do it. While you're traveling or spending long hours at the office, you can use your LocationFree Base Station to access the TV programming being stored by your DVR.

What's in the Box
LF-B10 LocationFree base station, CD-ROM (software, instructions manual, serial key), AC adapter, power cord, base station stand, IR blaster, and quick start guide.

Product Description

Sony's LF-B10 LocationFree Base Station connects easily to your home network and can stream live television and other video content, with excellent picture quality, through a home network or across the Internet to remote devices. Featuring NetAV streaming and the ability to connect to Sony PSP, Windows, Mac OS X computers, TVs and Windows Mobile cellular phones. Unit Dimensions(WxHxD) - 1.81 x 7.4 x 5.04 inches (46 x 189 x 128 mm)

Customer Reviews:

TV Junkies Dream!.......2007-03-29

Sony has done for "place shifting" what Tivo did for "time shifting" Hook this device up to your Tivo and you have TV anytime AND anywhere! The best of both worlds.Installation was easy. it took less than 10 minutes to get it going. It does require some basic computer and wireless network experience. Shortly after I took it out of the box i was watching TV on my Playstation PSP and on my laptop computer.

Works Beautifully.......2007-03-11

Functions exactly as advertised. Fairly easy to setup. Picture quality is perfect on remote PC...a little choppy on PSP, but that is probably a PSP limitation Overall, very, very satified.

Great Product.......2007-01-22

Setup was very easy with Sony now providing a DDNS service. Worked with my D-link router on the first try via UPnP. Makes it easy to watch tv along with control it via my laptop or my PocketPC Phone with the "NetFront LocationFree Player" now available. Since I travel for a living, this has made it much easier to stand the hotel rooms and the lack of what I want to watch and provides more quality time at home since I am not catching up with the Directv DVR (seperate one from the main one in the house to not interrupt my partners watching) but have more time to do the other things I love. It works great around the house as well. I am able to take the cooking shows to the kitchen, yard working shows to the yard, etc with my existing wireless access points I already had.
The most disappointing feature is that the player only works on one computer and that a separate player must be purchased for my pocketpc but these does not reduce the terrific picture and ease of use the LocationFree provides.

Pain to set up.......2006-11-25

Even with the help of the helpful Sony tech support guy it took 30+ minutes to set the software up to broadcast through my router. I had spent over an hour on it myself. Now the second problem is setting up a computer in another location to receive the signal. Buy this if you love tinkering with obscure Internet settings. The instructions do not even clearly tell you what information should go into which field in the "easy"(!) setup.
I will likely get this working someday, after phoning tech support again - weekdays before 9 pm EST - when I am working here on the west coast. But as a busy person, I am contemplating returning the unit as it has wasted so much of my time in setting it up. When they come up with a truly "easy" setup, it might be worth buying. I am not enough of a tv addict to put up with the setup headaches.

Works great! Only flaw is the single license of the player.......2006-11-11

The Sony LocationFree LF-B10 base station works great! The setup was very simple. With this new version Sony hosts a Dynamic DNS service that works transparently to the user. In about 30 minutes I had it working with both my computer and my PSP. I use it to control my TiVo Series 3. The only flaw is that the package only allows for one computer to connect to the base station. Additional clients need to be purchased. This limitation was not clear to me prior to purchasing.

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