Tunity
There's a reason the Roku 3 is my favorite streaming box: the remote. It has a headphone jack you can plug into when you want to watch TV without disturbing others. Wireless TV audio streamed right to the clicker: genius!
Tunity streams TV audio to your smartphone. It's free, it works (mostly), and it's darn cool.
I tested the app on my iPhone 6 (it's also available for Android) with Comcast by way of a TiVo. To get started, you simply tune in one of the supported live channels (more on that in a minute), then point your phone at the TV and let Tunity "scan" the screen.
In all of about 10 seconds, it detects what channel you're watching and starts streaming the audio to your phone. Pretty slick.
Needless to say, this could prove handy in a variety of situations. Beyond simple marriage-saving (letting your spouse sleep while you listen to late-night TV), it lets you listen to TV audio in bars, restaurants, gyms, airport lounges, waiting rooms and other environments where the audio is muted or simply too low for you to hear.
There are, of course, a few limitations. The biggest, at least for now, is that Tunity currently supports only about 50 channels, though most of the US cable heavyweights are included: A&E, AMC, ESPN, Food Network, TBS and TNT, for example.
Also, the app works only with live broadcasts, meaning you can't use it with shows you've recorded. Even if you just hit pause on your DVR, the audio will continue, effectively leaving you out of sync until you "catch up" to the live stream.
In my tests, some channels had audio-sync issues, which I suspect had to do with how my TiVo buffers live broadcasts. The app does offer a fine-tuning slider, but it's buggy: tap anywhere and it immediately jumps to one end. And no amount of jiggering allowed me to correct the sync when it was off.
When it was on, however, I found myself (probably overly) giddy. Here's hoping Tunity adds more channels and works out its bugs soon, because the app has the potential to be a huge hit. In fact, it's so potentially useful, I'm surprised it's free. (Not complaining!)
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Tunity streams TV audio to your smartphone
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