SlingPlayer 1.08 Released For Mac

[Vincent Ferrari]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.powerpage.org/2009/05/slingplayer_108_released.html' target='_blank'>http://www.powerpage.org/2009/05/sl...8_released.html</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"Late Wednesday, Sling Media announced the release of SlingPlayer 1.0.8, the newest version of its software packages that allows Mac users to access their television content on their computer."</em></p><p><img height="239" src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/at/auto/1241751839.usr18053.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #d2d2bb;" width="318" /></p><p>Almost everyone I know that owns a Slingbox owns a Mac, and yet Sling Media <strong>still</strong> hasn't released the Mac version of the 2.0 client yet.&nbsp; What's the problem, guys?&nbsp; You don't like us or something?</p><p>I'm starting to feel like Sling just doesn't care about its Mac customers.&nbsp; 1.0.8 is nice, but 2.0 has been out for Windows since at least August of last year.</p>

[jgrnt1]

Almost everyone I know that owns a Slingbox owns a Mac
That's because you alienate everyone who doesn't own a Mac....:D

[Janak Parekh]

Actually, the news I've heard is much worse. Sling will never release a v2.0 for the Mac. Instead, they'll have a web-based SlingPlayer for the Mac with HD support, and that will be Mac support from hereon.

Sling is acquiring an increasingly bad reputation about its client support (the whole thing with the iPhone client not supporting older Slings is yet another example).

--janak

[Vincent Ferrari]

Actually, the news I've heard is much worse. Sling will never release a v2.0 for the Mac. Instead, they'll have a web-based SlingPlayer for the Mac with HD support, and that will be Mac support from hereon.

In all honesty, I bought the slingbox so I could watch Mets games at work; if this is going to be their "thing" then I'll just by the MLB.tv package and watch the games that way. It was a one trick pony for me, and if it stops doing that one trick, I don't want the pony any more. :mad:

[jgrnt1]

I'm sure greed drove their decision to limit the iPhone app to new Slingboxes. Companies do that all the time, usually with the same result -- a huge backlash from consumers. Their being owned by Echostar doesn't help either. They've got to be trying to figure out how to get people onto their Dish service to use a Slingbox.

In all honesty, I bought the slingbox so I could watch Mets games at work
Even though I've been in Texas for 25 years, I'm still a Mets fan. I grew up in the Catskills. And though it will tell you a lot about my age, somewhere in the attic I have the scorebook I kept for the '69 World Series -- Tom Seaver, Jerry Koosman, Cleon Jones, Don Clendenon, Bud Harrelson....

[Janak Parekh]

In all honesty, I bought the slingbox so I could watch Mets games at work; if this is going to be their "thing" then I'll just by the MLB.tv package and watch the games that way. It was a one trick pony for me, and if it stops doing that one trick, I don't want the pony any more. :mad: Well, as long as the web player has the same quality as the Windows 2.0 player, I'll manage. If not, then I'll be rather upset about it. The existing player is "okay", and works from my office, but it's kind of long in the tooth.

BTW, Vinny, MLB.TV is a non-option, you'll be blacked out based on IP address for all Mets and Yankees games. :(

--janak