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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

Dead-Finger Tech: Slingbox, Roku & Netflix Instant Play

What's my real dead finger tech? My media streaming devices and services that keep me juiced with multimedia content at home and when I'm traveling. In anticipation of the great summer tech news doldrums, our fearless editor asked the ZDNet bloggers to provide...

Tags: NetFlix Inc., Roku Inc., Slingbox, View Service, DVR, Tv & Home Theater, TVs, Digital Video, Notebooks, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-07-31

Playing with Windows 7's Slingbox-like feature

Playing with Windows 7's Slingbox-like featureProtection is rightI think the copyright protection is the right thing to insist, while usability can be improved.RE: Playing with Windows 7's Slingbox-like featureAs cool as this may seem, I don't really see the value in being able to stream home brewed or stored content...

Tags: Operating systems, Servers, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Slingbox, server, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-05-15

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

AT&T updates wireless plans, prohibits Slingbox

AT&T updates wireless plans, prohibits Slingboxreal problemthere is some real problem starting to arise here. with the arrival of the iphone now millions of users demand the internet they are used to at home from their mobile device on the road. they don't want the baby internet, wap-portals or simply...

Tags: Corporate communications, INTERNET, Wireless and Mobility, AT&T Corp., wireless plan, Slingbox, TOS, video, wireless

Discussion threads 2009-04-04

AT&T updates wireless plans, prohibits Slingbox

Public Knowledge's Robb Topolsky reports that AT&T Wireless quietly changed its service terms after a Chicago AT&T subscriber received a $28,000 mobile bill after watching a Bears football game on his notebook computer via Slingbox. The customer was waiting for his cruise to depart from Miami when...

Tags: Billing, AT&T Wireless, AT&T Corp., Video, Terms Of Service, Allowance, Slingbox, Wireless, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-04-03

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

Image Gallery: HAVA Platinum HD

The HAVA Platinum HD lets you connect your HD source to the device and then watch your HD content on your PC, Windows Mobile device, S60 device, or Nokia Internet Tablet. You can even control your TV source just as if you were there in front of your TV/HD source....

Tags: Device, Tablets, Microsoft Windows, Notebooks, Operating Systems, TVs, Handhelds, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Software, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Matthew Miller, product photos, hava, slingbox, tv placeshift, s60, windows mobile, nokia tablet

Image galleries 2008-10-08

Slingbox PRO-HD starts shipping

Slingbox PRO-HD starts shippingWatching the Slingbox in a browserAlso, mReplay has updated their mReplay Live RIA so you can watch your Slingbox Pro HD in web browser... anywhere. You can watch, control, record, edit and share your Slingbox in IE or FireFox.www.mreplay.com/liveThey also have a free Slingplayer Mobile client.

Tags: Web browsers, Slingbox, Slingbox Pro-HD

Discussion threads 2008-10-02

Slingbox PRO-HD now shipping with HD streaming capability

Slingbox PRO-HD now shipping with HD streaming capabilityre: HAVAThe HAVA box actually does not stream *in* HD (720x480 max), but it will accept HD sources and down converter them. HAVA also has a true HD product in the works, though it's been delayed from this year until according to the...

Tags: Slingbox PRO-HD, HAVA

Discussion threads 2008-09-25

Hands on: Slingbox PRO-HD

Hands on: Slingbox PRO-HD$600 to watch HD on other TVs?So you need to get both the Slingbox PRO-HD for $300 and the SlingCatcher for $300 to watch HD content on a second set, right? Will you also need a SlingCatcher attached to each TV set that you want to use...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Slingbox PRO-HD, Slingbox

Discussion threads 2008-09-25

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

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

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 Slingbox Solo

Hot off its acquisition by EchoStar, parent company of the Dish Network satellite service, Sling Media is back in the saddle with a new product, the Slingbox Solo. The latest Slingbox model is essentially a streamlined version of the Slingbox Pro. Like that 2006 model, the Solo ($180 list) can...

Tags: Smart phones, Microsoft Windows, Network technology, Telecom & Utilities, Broadband Internet, Slingbox, SlingPlayer, Sling Media, SlingPlayer software, phone

Product reviews 2007-09-27

One overlooked reason mobile tv may fail

One overlooked reason mobile tv may failSlingboxWhay would I pay $9.95 per month for MobiTV, when I can install a Slingbox and watch for "free"?I purchased a used Slingbox on ebay for $50, connected it up, downloaded the Slingbox Mobile Player, cost $30. So for $80, I can now watch...

Tags: Slingbox, mobile TV, mobile

Discussion threads 2007-07-23

Why the MLB is really after Slingbox

Major League Baseball has given Slingbox a brushback pitch amid fears that time shifting devices could hamper its online television cash cow.As News.com's Erica Ogg reports MLB contends that Slingbox is misusing its content. In fact, MLB may even try to sue Slingbox. Charles Cooper argues that MLB would annoy...

Tags: Web Technology, Legal, IT Management, Hollywood on Demand, General, Enterprise 2.0

Blog posts 2007-06-01