01-06-2006, 11:30 AM
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Developer & Designer, News Editor Emeritus
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SlingPlayer Mobile Coming Soon
"Sling Media is expected to announce Thursday that consumers can use a wide range of mobile devices to watch their home television from anywhere in the world. The company is set to unveil new software that adds this capability to its Slingbox hardware product this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Sling Media co-founder and head of business development Jason Krikorian said support for mobile devices always has been part of the company's vision but that the initial focus was on the PC because of the broadband connection. "There are solutions for live and recorded TV on mobile phones, but now for the first time you can have full access to every single channel you've got at your house," he said. "It's not just a TV experience on your phone, it's your TV experience, like you have at home when you're on your couch." The new mobile client, as the software is known, works with any device that uses Microsoft's Windows Mobile Platform versions 4.0 or 5.0. A visual version of a remote control pops up on the screen, making it a fairly straightforward process to choose whether to watch television live from their home cable set-top box or satellite receiver or something recorded on their digital video recorder."
The Sling Media team first demonstrated SlingPlayer Mobile at Mobius last month. Then they demonstrated it again at CES. TV on-the-go sounds awesome and I'm really looking forward to its release, which is apparently this quarter. No word yet on pricing though. And on a related note, we can probably expect the PAL version of the Slingbox to debut shortly, so those in Europe and the Asia-Pacific will soon be able to grab a piece of the action.
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01-06-2006, 02:24 PM
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Mystic
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Did you happen to read/see anywhere if Smartphone support was mentioned as well?
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01-06-2006, 03:17 PM
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Originally Posted by encece
Did you happen to read/see anywhere if Smartphone support was mentioned as well?
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Yes, it supports both Pocket PCs and Smartphones running Windows Mobile 2003/2003SE and 5.0.
Unfortunately, at the time I queued up the original post, Sling Media had not put out a press release. Now they have, so here's a link: http://www.slingmedia.com/press/pres...-01.05.06b.php
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01-06-2006, 03:43 PM
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Sounds like LocationFree
This sounds very similar to LocationFree hardware from Sony. I think the LocationFree hardware from Sony that I would need to broadcast my living room anywhere over the internet and watch it on my psp is $300. I hope this would be less.
Has anyone used LocationFree?
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01-06-2006, 03:55 PM
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Mystic
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Well the slingbox is definitely less in price.
I'm surprised they are going to charge for the Mobile App. But it will be worth it if it works well. Hopefully it's not subscription based or anything like that.
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01-06-2006, 04:28 PM
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Oracle
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Microsoft's Windows Mobile Platform versions 4.0? :huh: I must have missed that memo.
Anyway you'll still need a bradband connection in your house right?
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01-06-2006, 04:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Don't Panic!
Microsoft's Windows Mobile Platform versions 4.0? :huh: I must have missed that memo.
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I guess their PR folk are still working in CE mode. 
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Originally Posted by Don't Panic!
Anyway you'll still need a bradband connection in your house right?
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Correct.
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01-06-2006, 08:43 PM
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Philosopher
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Does'n ORB offer the same service allready for free?
I haven't tried it yet myself, no WiFi or fast internet at home, but as far as I know you can stream TV or any video for that matter and the service is free...
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01-07-2006, 03:00 AM
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Ponderer
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Yes ORB works with certain video capture cards...and you can tweak "beyond TV"to work very well for streaming your tv and recorded shows as well.
And of course you have providers like smartvideo.com and wireless carriers themselves working for that space.
The big question is mainstream USA ready for this?
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01-07-2006, 04:05 AM
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Sage
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I thought I'd read somewhere that some cable companies were disallowing this sort of use because they say that it uses too much bandwidth to upload streaming media.
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Linear Mode
