Hello everyone,
I am a new member and is just trying to learn the new forum. I do have one question....why can't I watch tv shows from CBS for example. Is there an app that I need to get.

Thanks in advance .

Hi jada & welcome to the forum
I hope that you enjoy yourself on the forum!!!!
Well if you have a mac or pc you can watch Tv on your iPad its called Eye Tv its also a piece of hardware to
which requires installing on your machine first then you can watch & record at your leisure
i always use my iPad to Watch Tv
Here is the link for you - EyeTV Netstream products - Satellite TV (Freesat) and DTT (Freeview)
I hope that it helps
Paul

Thank you so much for the link. I see that you must have eyetv set up on your Mac. Will it work on a pc also since I do not have a Mac?

You can also get a network tuner like the HDhomerun and bypass PCs and Macs. There are two methods/apps to stream the channels to your iPad that I am aware of:

1. TV Streamer with Goodplayer - my preferred combo. TV Streamer talks to the network tuner, does the initial channel scan and when you select a channel, it tells the HDhomerun to stream the channel to Goodplayer. Pros: channel scanning works better than InstaTVPro, automatically adds channel logos to each channel. Cons: logos can be wrong, needs Goodplayer to get the stream and play it back.

2. InstaTV Pro - just checked this one out last week. Note that it must be the Pro version, not the free or standard version. I made the mistake of buying the standard version, and the developer was kind enough to give me a promo code to get the Pro version.
Set-up scans channels, then you can select the channel and it plays back within the app. Pros: all in one app Cons: no logos (although it says it does), channel scanning a bit hit and miss - had to scan multiple times until I got most of the available channels.

These will also work from a tuner on a PC, InstaTV needs its server installed on a Windows Vista/7 machine. TV Streamer only works with the HDHomerun tuners, but there are other streaming methods for general tuners in PCs.

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Btw...have you gone to the AppStore? I have the abc and NBC app to watch episodes for. Those channels. I am sure that CBS also has one too!

What am I missing

Hi I got everything but when I try to do a channel search it says no hd home run found.

Am I missing something?

Originally Posted by jada8023

Hi I got everything but when I try to do a channel search it says no hd home run found.

Am I missing something?

Do you actually have a HDHomerun network tuner? Is it connected to your network by Ethernet cable to the router?

Hello and welcome to the forum!

Originally Posted by dhewson777

Do you actually have a HDHomerun network tuner? Is it connected to your network by Ethernet cable to the router?

No I only have the one from the App Store. Is that something I need to get? I have a small square bloc that I recently got but I got that one from the cable company and it is connected to the router via Ethernet. Is that it?