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SlingPlayer 1.0.10 (Mac)

SlingPlayer for Mac, Version 1.0, includes photo-realistic remote controls as well as the ability to program favorite channels with a full range of viewing modes all leveraging the iconic Mac OS look and feel. Slingbox owners can now view their television directly on their Macintosh computer screen. With full remote...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Sling Media, Home Entertainment, Desktops, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Hardware, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-10-31

SlingPlayer 2.0.3508 (Windows)

SlingPlayer takes full advantage of the cutting-edge engineering inside the Slingbox. The software works hand-in-hand with the hardware inside your Slingbox to make taking your television along with you easy. Better yet, the SlingPlayer encompasses several innovative features to bring your entire living room experience to your desktop. Finally you...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Sling Media, Slingbox, SlingPlayer, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

Software downloads 2009-10-22

Sling Media Slingbox Pro-HD

Hardware Exceptionally Unreliable!When the product works, it usually works well.However, I would strongly recommend NOT purchasing a Slingbox HD Pro, as the hardware is exceptionally unreliable. I purchased my HD Pro in January 2009 and I have already had to replace it twice. In both instances a hardware error causes...

Tags: Slingbox, hardware, Sling Media

Discussion threads 2009-10-11

Gadget Gal's daily deals: Sling Media Slingbox, Dell Inspiron 15 laptop, iRiver MP3 player

A Dell Inspiron 15 laptop, an iRiver 8GB MP3 player, and a Sling Media Slingbox SOLO. Here are your daily deals for Wednesday, June 24, straight from the Gadget Gal: 1. Today is the last day of Dell's Day's of Deals special, so make sure to check...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., MP3 Player, Sling Media, iRiver, Laptop Computer, Dell Inspiron, Inspiron 15, Woot, Notebooks, Media Players, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jennifer Bergen

Blog posts 2009-06-24

Gadget Gal's daily deals: Slingbox Edition

The SlingPlayer Mobile iPhone app is finally here. You can now watch TV on your iPhone, and we're not talking about two-minute YouTube clips. The $30 app lets you stream video from your TV at home onto your iPhone. But it's not that easy -- you...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Sling Media, Slingbox, SlingPlayer Mobile iPhone App, Sling Media Slingbox PRO-HD SB300-100, Sling Media Slingbox AV, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Network Technology, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Networking, Jennifer Bergen

Blog posts 2009-05-13

Will we ever see a SlingPlayer Mobile client for the iPhone?

Sling Media showed off a version of SlingPlayer running on an iPhone just about a year ago and we still do not have a SlingPlayer Mobile client available to install. At first The Boy Genius Report stated that AT&T may have asked Apple to reject the application, but their sources...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Sling Media, Slingbox, Wireless And Mobility, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2009-04-16

SlingPlayer (Palm) 1.00.22 (Mobile)

SlingPlayer gives Slingbox owners the most powerful option available in mobile television, combining their unique personal home TV experience with the portability of their mobile phones or PDAs. SlingPlayer extends Slingbox functionality to Palms. A truly mobile television experience, SlingPlayer Mobile supports any type of Internet connection on your mobile...

Tags: Mobile, Mobile TV, Palm Inc., Sling Media, Slingbox, SlingPlayer, Advertising & Promotion, TVs, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

Software downloads 2009-04-11

Time Warner Cable to offer multi-room DVRs, Echostar to deliver Sling Media set-top box

Time Warner Cable to offer multi-room DVRs, Echostar to deliver Sling Media set-top boxBut what features will the customer get......meaning how many features will the cable companies disable, or charge extra for?Also what if I have a HDTV in my living and a regular TV in my bedroom what if?...

Tags: DVR, Digital video, TV & Home Theater, multi-room DVR, digital video recorder, Sling Media, EchoStar Communications Corp., Time Warner Cable Inc., set-top box, set-top, cable

Discussion threads 2009-04-05

Time Warner Cable to offer multi-room DVRs, Echostar to deliver Sling Media set-top box

With competition from satellite and fiber-optic TV competitors coming from one side, and the Internet from the other, the cable industry needs to deliver new products to keep their subscribers from defecting to the alternatives. At last week's 2009 Cable Show, tru2way technology—an open application platform for set-top box developers—was...

Tags: Set-top Box, Set-top, Time Warner Cable Inc., Sling Media, Digital Video Recorder, EchoStar Communications Corp., DVR, Tv & Home Theater, Digital Video, Cable, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-04-05

Sling Media taking a wait and see approach to the Palm WebOS

I've been using a Slingbox and the SlingPlayer Mobile clients for years, but last year I moved to the Hava player because they have free Nokia Internet Tablet and S60 clients. Slingbox now has a SlingPlayer Mobile client for selected S60 devices, but it does not work on the very...

Tags: Palm Inc., Sling Media, Slingbox, SlingPlayer Mobile, Business Structures, Tablets, Operating Systems, Finance, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Software, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2009-02-01

Sling will compete in crowded field as founders move on

The Krikorian brothers and other top execs at Sling Media deserve to take some time off - soak up some sun in Maui or maybe take an extended cruise.  Not only did they create some of the most revolutionary television technology since TiVo, they also got out just in time...

Tags: Sling Media, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, DVR, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-01-13

Sling Media Launches Universal Media Player Based on Windows Embedded Technology

Sling Media, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ: SATS), is a leading digital lifestyle products company offering consumer services and products that are a natural extension of today's digital way of life. Smart, Connected Media Device Extends TV Viewing Sling Media needed an embedded operating system for...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Media Player, Sling Media, Digital Media, Microsoft Windows, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital Music, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Security

Case studies 2008-10-01

Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week

Here are ZDNet's 10 favorite items from the past week, including the Sling Media Slingbox Pro-HD, Apple's iTunes 8, and the 250GB Archos 5. by CNET News.com

Tags: Archos, Sling Media, Photograph, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-09-29

Sling Media Slingbox Pro-HD

When Sling Media released a trio of second-generation models in the fall of 2006, the Slingbox Pro was at the top of the line. Unlike the entry-level Slingbox AV, the Pro had pass-through outputs, an analog tuner, multisource capability, and the capability to accept high-definition video sources. Unfortunately, it also...

Tags: 3G, TV & Home Theater, Smart phones, TVs, Home entertainment, Corporate communications, Slingbox, Sling Media

Product reviews 2008-09-25

SlingPlayer Mobile on the iPhone will be demoed at Apple's WWDC this week

One of the applications I always knew would be a wonderful addition to the iPhone with its large beautiful display is SlingPlayer Mobile and tonight I received an email from their new Beta Manager that a proof of concept version will be shown at the WWDC this week. They will...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Sling Media, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-06-09

Sling Media CEO Blake Krikorian unplugged

Sling Media CEO Blake Krikorian unpluggedSling media CEO Blake....http://www.1-satellite-tv-facts.com/Satellite-DSL.htmlhttp://www.1-satellite-tv-facts.com/Satellite-Internet.htmlRE: Sling Media CEO Blake Krikorian unpluggedhttp://www.1-satellite-tv-facts.com/Satellite-DSL.htmlhttp://www.1-satellite-tv-facts.com/Satellite-Internet.html

Tags: Blake, Sling Media, Blake Krikorian

Discussion threads 2008-05-25

CES: Will 2008 finally be the year of the SlingCatcher?

It's déjà vu all over again. It's been almost exactly a year since Sling Media announced the SlingCatcher and Clip+Sling functionality (at least year's Consumer Electronics Show), but thus far, beyond some private betas, there has been no public sign of life for either of the enticing...

Tags: Consumer Electronics Show, Set-top Box, Set-top, PC, Sling Media, SlingCatcher, Slingbox, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Josh Taylor

Blog posts 2008-01-06

SlingPlayer Mobile for BlackBerry will be shown at CES

I personally am a big fan of the Slingbox and SlingPlayer Mobile clients. I use the device and these clients every time I travel to watch my recorded content or watch shows that are playing on my home TV. I just recently purchased a Nokia N95-3 that comes with a...

Tags: Consumer Electronics Show, Sling Media, RIM BlackBerry, Slingbox PRO-HD, Handhelds, Hardware, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-01-03

Sony LF-V30 LocationFree TV

In some ways, you've got to feel a little sympathetic for Sony. The company effectively invented the placeshifting concept--the ability to stream TV programming from your living room to another device via the Internet--in 2004, only to see it co-opted by smaller upstart Sling Media a year later. The latter...

Tags: Corporate communications, Wi-Fi, NETWORKING, Viruses and worms, Games, SECURITY, TV, Sony Corp., Slingbox, Sony LF-V30, LF-V30, wireless, Blaster worm, Sling Media, network, video

Product reviews 2007-10-26

Sling Media announces SlingPlayer for S60 devices

I started using a Slingbox now called the Slingbox Classic a couple of years ago after Sling Media was kind enough to give each Mobius attendee a box to evaluate. I have to admit that the Slingbox actually resulted in me upgrading my TV setup to an HDTV with a...

Tags: Application, Nokia Corp., Mobile, Sling Media, TV, S60, SOLO, Advertising & Promotion, Corporate Communications, DVR, TVs, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2007-09-27