Hit the road (or turn on your computer at work) and catch your local television programming – live or recorded – with the help of Slingbox. For $249.99 (no monthly fees), you can watch your local (home) programming anywhere in the world you are able to connect to the Internet.
Sling Media CEO, Blake Krikorian, a baseball fan, wanted to watch live San Francisco Giants games when he was out of town. Now he can. Slingbox simply attaches to a subscriber’s home cable box, satellite receiver, digital recorder or television and redirects the signal to a computer loaded with Slingbox software.
In the coming months, Sling Media promises the redirected signal will be available for viewing on “select PDAs, smart phones, and Macintosh computers.”
Slingbox is a one-to-one transmittal device. As sold, Slingbox can only direct a signal to one place at a time. However, Slingbox is not without its critics.
Place-shifting critics describe scenarios where two Slingbox subscribers send each other programming that is unavailable in their respective areas. For example, an East Coast subscriber could stream a reality show to the West Coast subscriber three hours early. The West Coast subscriber could reciprocate by providing access to a premium channel, eliminating the need for the East Coast subscriber purchase channel access. In another scenario geographically remote friends trade access to their Slingbox for viewing locally blacked out football games. (Only a few critics of Slingbox could eliminate the need for an advertising budget.)
Slingbox is available at Best Buy and CompUSA.
Read more about Slingbox here.
Sunday, July 10, 2005
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