“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.]
TV on the iPad would be a HUGE deal. The iPad will be all about content, not hardware. The PC nerds don’t understand that.
My brother watched the SuperBowl via my Slingbox, as his satellite tv does not carry his local stations. I told him he could get the Slingbox app and watch on his iPhone, but he doesn’t want to pay $30.
Oh, the story is a tad misleading as a Slingbox Solo can be had for like $120.
I’m going to watch Red Eye on it!
3am FOXNews show “Red Eye” Celebrates Third Year By Topping CNN’s Entire Prime Time Lineup:
http://bit.ly/ah8JiD
How’s that hopey, changey stuff working out for ya? – Sarah Palin, February 6, 2010
How’s that hopey, changey stuff working out for ya? – Sarah Palin, February 6, 2010
Dumb human being; the only thing worse than her are the idiots who think she has something going for her. The ignorance of that woman is frightening.
I just love Tech writers that don’t know anything about what they’re writing about!
That whole thing is 1) OLD news from last week, and 2) riddled with errors.
Can I listen to Pandora the same time as watching TV?
RicMac, “How’s that hopey, changey stuff working out for ya?” – Sarah Palin, February 6, 2010
“Dumb human being; the only thing worse than her are the idiots who think she has something going for her. The ignorance of that woman is frightening.”
Watch it RicMac, we conservatives are starting to roll. You lot are going to be washed out of in the next couple of years. Sarah only needs a few notes on her hand. The ‘Chosen One’ needs every word spelled out for him on a teleprompter. Plus he can’t even pronounce ‘corpsman’. He’s worse than my granny – and she’s dead.
See it all via ‘SlingPlayer’ mobile app.
I didn’t say I was a liberal, I said Sarah is DUMB!
Plenty of conservatives are not tea baggers and are convinced that Sarah is hopeless.
“I didn’t say I was a liberal, I said Sarah is DUMB!
Plenty of conservatives are not tea baggers and are convinced that Sarah is hopeless.”
Yes, convinced by the very same media that gave us Obamamamamama.
Sarah is far from dumb. Stop watching MSNBC and use your own brain. The woman is a breath of fresh air, and the fact she gets under libs’ skin – like yours – means she’s very savvy.
You probably voted for douchebag in the White House too. You sound like just the sort of elitist who would fall for hope and change, so you could tell all your elitist friends you voted for a black man.
hows the ‘no-hopey – keep it the same’ working for sarah?
“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.”
The above statement is hugely misleading. The box can be configured so that two people can simultaneously watch different DEVICES at the same time. You’re set-top box will still only show one program at a time, the Pro-HD can’t change that. The box has 1 composite and 1 component (and 1 antenna) connection, so be careful when selecting what you will connect. For example, I can connect my Apple TV to the component connectors, but then my DirecTV DVR must be connected to the lower quality the composite connectors. And in my opinion, in this day and age, the designer should be flogged for the simple fact that the device doesn’t support HDMI.
Also, a minimum of 1.5Mbps upload is needed to support the HD transmission. I don’t know about you guys, but my provider (AT&T;) still only allows 768Kbps, so I couldn’t get the HD picture even if I had another component input with which to connect.
Bottom line, know what you are getting and how you are going to use it before shelling out the money for it. (BTW, I had looked at the Pro-HD this past weekend and you can get it for around $260 online.)
Yes, I know, it should have been “Your” not “You’re”…
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