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Sling Media Releases SlingPlayer Mobile 2 for Windows Phones

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...
Tue, Jan 26 | from SlingCommunity

Sling's Trio of New TV Placeshifting Devices Offers Lots of Streaming Goodness

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.
Tue, Jan 5 | from Gizmodo

Everyone wins at a bowl | Philadelphia Daily News | 12/23/2009

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 ...
Wed, Dec 23 | from Philadelphia Daily News

The National: Slingbox May Hit the UAE Sometime Next Year

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...
Tue, Nov 24 | from SlingCommunity

EchoStar Pitches Sling DVR to Cable (Again)

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...
Wed, Oct 28 | from Zatz Not Funny

How To Use Your Slingbox With HDMI Video Sources and Avoid HDCP Issues

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...
Mon, Aug 24 | from SlingCommunity

Gadgetell Review: The Hava Titanium HD

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.
Thu, Apr 16 | from Gadgetell

SlingPlayer Mobile Will Arrive to Your iPhone in Q1

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...
Wed, Jan 7 | from MobileWhack.com

Patch: Slingbox update now brings automatic 4:3, 16:9 switching

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, ...
Fri, Dec 12 | from CrunchGear

Engadget HD Podcast 110 - 11.05.2008

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...
Wed, Nov 5 | from Engadget HD

Sling Pro HD Review

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...
Thu, Oct 2 | from Gizmodo

Podcast: Photoshop for Mobile Phones? God, why?

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...
Thu, Sep 25 | from mevio.com

Opinion: Sling Media At CES

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-...
Sun, Jan 13 | from TiVo Lovers

Patch: Sling Media Releases New SlingPlayer for PC and Mac OS

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...
Tue, Sep 25 | from SlingCommunity

Patch: Sling Media Releases Slingbox Firmware Update

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...
Fri, Jul 20 | from SlingCommunity

PVR Wire Podcast 8 -- 10/20/06

25 -- Orb's new "mycasting" strategy4:10 -- Orb's version 2.0 interface6:05 -- Yes, the application does take longer to load than version 17:55 -- Public beta of AOL's Winamp Remote using Orb technology due out soon (full disclosure: AOL is the parent company of this blog)9:20 -- Orb part...
Fri, Oct 20 | from PVR Wire