More is always better when it comes to television, right? That’s the idea of 4SeTV, a set top box and app that streams over the air broadcasts to a tablet or smart television. You buy the hardware and there are no monthly subscription fees or other costs, so getting into it is easy.
Through the free app, available for iOS and Android, you can split the screen, watching up to four channels at once. You can easily switch audio between the screens so when you want to flip between MSNBC and CNN morning shows or Thursday Night Football and “Scandal” it’s no problem.
It’s kind of like Aereo but with more screens, except that 4SeTV isn’t rebroadcasting the signal, so you can’t pause or record. But you can also count on it to not disappear because the FCC says so.
The bummer is that founder Hyung Lim started a Kickstarter campaign, ending this Thursday, and won’t reach his goal of $50,000. But that’s not going to stop him he says:
There are a lot of things I learned running the Kickstarter campaign for the first time and there are a lot of things I want to improve. One thing is that I’m targeting sports fans, and though they’re watching over the air broadcasts, they also watch a lot of ESPN and that’s been a major issue. I’m going to fix it by creating additional hardware and come back to the Kickstarter so that I can include content like ESPN along with the other.
He’s backed by hardware company DMT, “so I can continue the operation and development to reshape my messaging and things like that for the second round,” he says.
You can watch a demo from Lim here and check out the Kickstarter here.