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Epiphan Video
Company blog · epiphan.com/bloghardware
Epiphan Video is the company blog at epiphan.com, writing about hardware. Since 2016, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Epiphan's pages on streaming bandwidth, live-streaming cameras and its KVM2USB capture product. Commenters cite them as sources or product pointers, not for their writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Epiphan builds agent-ready video capture: hardware encoders, capture cards, PTZ cameras, and cloud services Claude, ChatGPT, or any MCP client can read.
Most-linked posts?
- /products/kvm2usb-3-0/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-02-01
What Hacker News says?
Get a Surface Go with LTE (or if you need TPM a Surface Pro). Then get a small bag of usb-a dongles for your needs. For the head unit issue, something like https://www.epiphan.com/products/kvm2usb-3-0/ could work.
Comment linking /products/kvm2usb-3-0/
on “A small notebook for a system administrator”Submitted Vimeo vs. YouTube as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis is SUCH a niche system, that I don't understand why carrying adapter is a bad thing. There are already laptops that kinda fit his keyboard/pointer/size requirements. - His "video subsystem" idea already has a solution for many years. KVM2USB. https://www.epiphan.com/products/kvm2usb-3-0/ - His "let me turn this into a boot device" also has a solution. Many virtual cd rom devices exist, for example https://www.a…
Comment linking /products/kvm2usb-3-0/
on “A small notebook for a system administrator”Submitted Wireless LTE Streaming for Live Events with Pearl and Mushroom Networks as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAs a rough estimate: 1 TB cost about $1.20 HD is 5MB per second, UHD is 25MB per second. [1] If you stream a 3min video in HD, that's about 200seconds which lead to 1GB traffic. So you can stream 1000 videos for $1.20, or one video for 0.12 cents. [1] https://www.epiphan.com/blog/bandwidth-for-streaming/
Comment linking /blog/bandwidth-for-streaming/
on “The PeerTube content bootstrap fund”I would rather bump up a few hundred dollars and get a DSLR that can be used as a webcam. I would guess that many of the people who care about the improvements that this $300 camera claims to have either already have a DSLR, or would like to own one. https://www.epiphan.com/blog/best-cameras-for-live-streaming...
Comment linking /blog/best-cameras-for-live-streaming/
on “Opal Camera”