“The app accesses a Slingbox, which when attached to a home TV tuner or digital video recorder, lets a person control and watch their TV remotely on a computer or mobile device through an Internet connection,” Furchgott reports. “The Slingbox Mobile Player app is currently $30, but to use it you will also need a $180 Slingbox Solo or $300 Slingbox Pro-HD, and possibly an $80 Slinglink Turbo or SlingLink $150 Turbo 4-Port.”
“Typically only one person can control the TV at a time, so if you are watching your TV remotely and someone at home changes the channel, you will see that channel change,” Furchgott reports. “The Slingbox Pro-HD can be configured so that two people can simultaneously watch different shows, said the company, avoiding a virtual fight over the remote via 3G.”
Furchgott reports, “Slingbox says that all that is needed is Apple’s final approval to put the SlingPlayer update on the App store. Apple declined to say when that might be.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Now imagine the SlingPlayer Mobile app for iPad 3G:
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "James W." for the heads up.]
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