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By Matt Whitlock Sharon Rylander at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show Sharon Rylander, Beta Manager for Sling Media, announced in a farewell letter to the community that she's leaving her position at Sling Media in pursuit of new opportunities. Through the past several years, passionate Slingbox use...

By Matt Whitlock Quitely shown (but not talked about) at CES in January , Sling Media's just let loose a 2nd generation SlingPlayer Mobile App for Windows Phones. The new player sports a similar UI as the SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone/iPod Touch [ review ], includes integration with Sling Accounts for eas...

By Adrian Covert The Slingbox 700u is a Slingbox with a single USB cable—intended to plug into and directly interface with any compatible, internet-connected, set-top box. Sling calls it their smallest Slingbox available, and again, Dish Network plans on offering it first.

By Matt Whitlock Developed for television service providers, the Sling Monitor 150 is a companion product to a Slingbox or SlingLoaded DVR. It provides a portable HDTV experience to another room in the house that has not been wired for TV programming, such as a kitchen, bathroom, patio, or garage.

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By Brian Lam Dave Zatz has an invite to a CES Slingbox event. Neato: New video streaming gear including a touchscreen device. You'll experience an up close view of Sling's new placeshifting products including WiFi television, ultra-slim Slingboxes, and a next-generation touch screen device.

For example, Temple, set to play UCLA in the Dec.29 EagleBank Bowl in Washington DC will have its choice of the following: a Slingbox SOLO mini-television ...

Slingbox SOLO with Slinglink Turbo 1 Port, Powermat charging station, Visions Marketing hat, football, Kanata tailgate blanket. ... and more »

By Matt Whitlock Sometimes its easy to forget that even though the Slingbox has been in the US and other countries the past several years, many great nations around the world haven't yet hopped on the placeshifting bandwagon. As is the case in the UAE (United Arab Emirates), where interest in the Slingbox a...

End of the Road for SlingCatcher? blog) But with Sling's corporate ownership, and resultant focus on the DISH Network Slingbox DVR, I wouldn't count on it. One Response for "End of the Road for ...

By Dave Zatz EchoStar at The Cable ShowEchoStar Announces Agreement to Acquire Sling Media, Inc.Echostar Backs Sling Media The SCTE cable industry show, having hit full swing in Denver, has revealed another EchoStar attempt at wooing the cable industry with a Slingbox-enabled DVR (aka “SlingLoa...

By Alexander Grundner The Hollywood Reporter and Broadband TV News are reporting that Stuart Collingwood, VP EMEA of Sling Media, has been quoted saying that the percentage of people who don’t use their Slingbox for remote placeshifting has jumped from 40% two years ago to 70% today. In fact, most people use th...

By Dave Zatz HAVA Nokia S60 Client Heading To BetaThe Hava Gold Placeshifting GiveawaySlingbox & HAVA Holiday Software Updates Hava’s iPhone placeshifting client has been submitted to Apple for approval, according to email correspondence from customer service staff. Like their Slingbox c...

By rkalish For some time now, using a Slingbox with an HDMI compatible video source such as the SA-8300HD DVR, did not allow you to use the HDMI output, which is usually the preferred A/V hookup to your HD Plasma or LCD. Due to HDCP restrictions, if the device on the other end of the HDMI cable is not turned...

By Matt Whitlock Today, consumers are faced with the task of choosing between two different Slingbox models, the Slingbox SOLO and Slingbox PRO-HD, with each uniquely tailored to a specific kind of user. With choice comes confusion, so it's time to get an answer to the question that will be asked by nearly...

By Matt Whitlock O ne of the most common questions I've seen asked in the SlingCommunity Forums goes a little something like this... "I have a [insert brand] cable/satellite box [insert model] and we just bought a Slingbox. How do we hook it up so we can both watch a different dish/cable channel at the same time?...

By Iyaz Akhtar The in-betweens The desktop player software is Windows only for now, so no mixed network environments for you unless you run Windows in a VM or something similar.  Since the device used minijack connectors, perhaps the device could have offered more inputs.

Take your TV on the road! PJ Jacobowitz, PC Magazine's Product Review Coordinator, checks out the Slingbox SOLO. www.pcmag.com

By Matt Whitlock While it seems like only yesterday, it's already been a year since Sling Media's Matt Feinstein gave us an early look at SlingCatcher during the 2008 CES show. The Catcher may look a lot different these days (hardware aside, the UI is entirely different from last year's demo), but Sling Med...

By Matt Whitlock Echostar and Sling Media made a big splash at CES with the with the announcement of the ViP 922 SlingLoaded HD DVR , probably the most innovative DVR to come down the pike since TiVo launched the Series 3 some time ago. The ViP 922 is the first DVR to combine a satellite receiver, DVR, and Slingb...

By Chris Sling Media made its SlingPlayer available for most mobile platforms out there so it was time the iPhone got its version too. The application is almost ready to come out and when it does you will able to take full advantage of your SlingPlayer Mobile straight from your iPhone. While the iPhon...

By NEWS “  Quick Review What is it? Slingbox Pro-HD place shifts your television content to where ever you have an Internet connection. What’s Cool: Easy setup if you have the right connections available. Stylish device. Does what it says it does. What’s Not:…“ MORE »No HD Netflix for computer users...

By Keith Shaw I'm working at home today in the "basement branch", so I'm pretty psyched that I was able to get the Hava Titanium HD WiFi device hooked up as part of this week's Cool Tools column. I've got my work notebook connected to the VPN, and the desktop is streaming TV content from upstairs. For the past...

The Slingbox lets you get your TV on your laptop, but what if you want to do it the other way - i.e., get your laptop on your TV? Sling Media the makers of the Slingbox believe it has the answer. But can the SlingCatcher do as it promises? We get streaming to find out. Read SlingCatcher on Pocket-lint

 NY - Dec 12, 2008 By Nicholas Deleon So Sling released a tiny update, up to version 1.0.7 now, to its Sling Player software that, among other amazing things, ...

By Trent Wolbe Filed under: PodcastsOn the eve of the presidential election, we still got together to talk up the latest in HD news. What easily turned out to be the topic of the week was Netflix. We covered the HD announcements, the TiVo partnership, and finally, Watch Instantly for Mac users. And although...

By Dan Evans The SlingCatcher ($299.99 direct) gives you access to all of types of digital content on your television--basically, if you can see it on your PC monitor, you'll be able to see it on your TV. With the player you can stream content from your hard drive or the Web to your television.

By NA9D SlingPlayer for TV is likely the most anticipated feature of the SlingCatcher. This single feature will revolutionize place shifting of television and other video programming. With SlingPlayer for TV you can now watch connect to your Slingbox from anywhere in the world with an internet...

By NA9D Now that I've seen it - what do I think? Well, I know Sling has worked really hard on this and when it works - it works very well. But, it is still a bit rough around the edges.

By Adrian Covert In addition, you can connect more than one HD source — not only is there a set of Component video inputs, but there is a coaxial input for over-the-air HD. This gives you two HD options, plus composite inputs for SD video. Another plus is that you no longer need to buy the special HD connect cable...

T-Mobile lifting the 1GB limit on Android phones. China phonies up rocket launch. Ridiculous. Oldest rocks on earth found in Canada. Slingbox Pro-HD released. Dell finally going to LED backlights in laptops. Is this taking forever or what? Dell also says things are looking up. HP laying off 930...

By Adrian Covert The final hardware for the upcoming SlingCatcher is all but finished, and Brian Jaquet from Sling gave us a brief demo with the new hardware, I'm pretty excited about what this thing can do. For those unfamiliar, the SlingCatcher can take a video feed from another Slingbox and throw it up on...

By BC Blog Team Latest Sling Media and Slingbox News from the SlingCommunity During the 2008 Consumer Electronics show Sling Media and Echostar showed off a new government coupon eligible DTV converter box for the US digital TV transition. Much of the basics were covered in this article around that tim...

By Brandon C. If you have created or tested a remote bin file for your Slingbox, you can help others by sharing it with the SlingCommunity and make it easy for others to find and enjoy what you have created. Other folks like you have worked hard to create these, so why not share yours? In a few simple steps, y...

Sling Media has launched an update to its SlingPlayer Mobile software for Symbian S60 phones. The software lets Slingbox owners use their mobile devices to tune into live or recorded television streaming from a slingbox connected to ...

By MegaZone Personally, I’m looking forward to the release of SlingPlayer 2.0 with Clip+Sling as well as SlingPlayer Mobile updates. I got a taste of SP 2.0 and C+S at CES in January and what Sling has done is really polished and easy to use. I really do wish Sling Media would add recording functionality, as...

By MegaZone OK, that’s enough out of me - for now. On Wednesday at CES I managed to spend some time in Sling Media’s booth, including a nice sit-down with Dave Zatz for a demo of the SlingCatcher and the new SlingPlayer 2.0, including the Clip+Sling functionality. See my previous posts on the Slingbox PRO-...

By SlingCommunity Team Sling Media today released an updated Windows and Mac OS SlingPlayer client for both the US and UK markets. Today's release marks the first real upgrade to the Windows SlingPlayer since 1.4 made its debut almost 9 months ago. The US version can be found here and the UK version here . This new Slin...

By SlingCommunity Team Sling Media today released an a new firmware update for all Slingboxes, fixing some minor networking issues that could cause remote viewing to stop working. "It resolves the issue with some router models where Port Forwarding / UPnP settings are lost after a router’s WAN IP address chang...

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By Jason Chen The version 1.0 update includes support for TiVo Series 3, AT&T Uverse &HomeZone, Some Motorola Cox set top boxes, various UK remote and even AppleTV/FrontRow/iPod. Nice! Grab it now if you've got Windows and a Sling. – Jason Chen Download Page [Sling]

By msolo I recently switched from DSL to Comcast cable, but before that I had to get my Cisco 678 DSL modem configured to work for Slingbox remote viewing and it took a couple of command line entries (Go to Start >Accessories >Command Prompt) to get it working correctly. I have now had at least 5...

Pinnacle is looking to provide competition for Sony's LocationFree and Sling Media's Slingbox TV streaming devices with the new PCTV To Go.... Pinnacle is looking to provide competition for Sony's LocationFree and Sling Media's Slingbox TV streaming devices with the new PCTV To Go.It work...

By Chris Tew Filed under: General, HDTV, News, Software, Home Networking, Streaming The HAVA Gold HD will connect to any TV source such as Cable, Satellite, DVD, TiVo or a Camcorder allowing you to spread your TV to any PC over your home network or the internet.

By Brad Linder These include an updated SlingPlayer for Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.3, SlingPlayer 1.5 for Windows, and an updated version of SlingPlayer Mobile for Windows smartphones that will feature improved performance on Dash/Excalber and Blackjack smartphones.

The Slingbox Pro with HD Connect's improved quality was also noticeable using the SlingPlayer Mobile for Windows software on my Motorola Q Smartphone. Don't try watching an entire football game or a movie on the Motorola Q, though, because its lame-ass battery will give up the ghost afte...

By Keith McDuffee Forward ahead to today, where Sling Media now has an updated line of Slingboxen in their arsenal. Along with the Slingbox AV and Slingbox TUNER, they've now got an HD-capable unit available, the Slingbox PRO. And gone are the days of strange etchings across their tops.

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By Ryan Block The Pro, much like the classic Slingbox, features an analog cable input, as well as an S-Video input. But unlike the previous Slingbox, the Pro features an analog cable passthrough (thanks!), as well as composite and S-Video ins (and their respective passthroughs, as well). Of course, th...

By Chuck A universal plug and play (UPnP) router - check to see if your router supports UPnP, which makes set up easier if you are not comfortable with router configuration. If your router is non-UPnP, you can configure it yourself if it has port-forwarding. I prefer using port-forwarding so I can...

Sling Media has quietly released the latest build of the Slingbox desktop software. Version 1.3.176, available for download at Sling Media's Web site, adds better speed and resolution when streaming on a home network, a conflict manager for disconnecting unwanted remote logins (the pla...

Today Jack, Steve and I discuss the disappearing 4700, 3715 and 1715 iPAQ's along with discussions about the hw6515, Orb, Slingbox and a bunch more.