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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

Spawn HD-720 Hands On: Hey, Streaming Gaming Might Just Work

That'll be the ultimate test, and it's a test I'm really looking forward to. Even in its current state, Spawn can definitely keep up at least half of its side of the bargain—local game streaming is decidedly decent, and the client software is polished. The other half? You know, streaming a ga...
Mon, Oct 26 | from Gizmodo

70% of Slingbox Users Don’t Placeshift TV Content Outside Their Home

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...
Sat, Oct 10 | from eHomeUpgrade

THR.com: Slingbox Headed to Middle East, 70% of Customers Use at Home Says Sling

According to a report at THR.com , Sling Media's VP EMEA, Stuart Collingwood, had serveral interesting facts to share. For starters, Sling Media's speard across the European continent continues. Right now, users 15 different countries accross Europe have access to the Slingbox and serv...
Thu, Oct 8 | from SlingCommunity

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

What is it? The Hava Titanium HD from Monsoon Multimedia is a device that allows you to placeshift your television and HD content in your home network and over the Internet to PCs and mobile devices. The device can also be paired with a USB hard drive to make it a DVR. It costs $249.99 on their of...
Thu, Apr 16 | from Gadgetell

How To: Tutorial: Use Slingbox to Stream to JustinTV

Although I was unable to get this to work, a user from GTP asked... Author: REVELATION312 Keywords: slingbox stream justintv tutorial Added: March 4, 2009
Wed, Mar 4 | from YouTube

How To: Sling Media Support - Slingbox Setup Tutorial

Author: warzeuwant Keywords: Sling Media Support Slingbox Setup Tutorial Added: January 17, 2009
Sat, Jan 17 | from YouTube

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

On the software side, Sling was showing three new products. SlingSync and SlingProjector come with the SlingCatcher and provide access to media on the PC via the SlingCatcher. SlingPlayer 2.0 is the next generation of the SlingPlayer software, with a new UI and many enhancements, includi...
Sun, Jan 13 | from TiVo Lovers

How To: Dotto Tech - Season 5 Episode 10 - SlingBox

Author: dottotech Keywords: steveDotto Steve Dotto Tech how to video entertainment Slingbox digital Internet TV cable place-shifting Added: October 22, 2007
Mon, Oct 22 | from YouTube

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