Tag archive: Slingbox

Sometimes watching rap battles on YouTube and grainy reruns of Pete and Pete on your computer just doesn’t cut it. Slingmedia was one of the first companies to solve this problem by offering a set-top box that would broadcast digitized cable content to a computer, the Slingbox, and it’s out to improve on that formula even more. The original Slingbox gets a makeover and new capabilities with the Slingbox Solo, announced… Read More

Sling Media has introduced three new editions of its Slingbox place-shifting device, which enables users to tune into television and video assets they have at home from anywhere they can get high-speed Internet access, and with them introduces new high-end features which may appeal to serious film and video hounds. The idea behind the Slingbox is that it takes output from a user's television, cable box, Media Center PC, or other… Read More

Sling Media yesterday said they'd officially started sales of their popular Slingbox in Canada. The Slingbox will cost $299 CAD. The Slingbox, said Sling Media, will be available across Canada in retailers such as Best Buy, Future Shop and London Drugs, as well as online. Sling Media is working together with Keating Technologies, a sales, marketing and support outsourcer and Ingram Micro, a Canadian distributor, to launch the Slingbox… Read More

Get ready to enjoy your television viewing experience anywhere you go - the Slingbox is coming to town. Sling Media today announced the nationwide rollout of their Slingbox home media streaming device. Priced at $249.99, this subscription free device takes a single TV stream from devices like cable and satellite boxes and personal video recorders and redirects it (placeshifts, as Sling Media described it in a press release) over a home… Read More

Sling Media, Inc. this week unveils the Slingbox(TM) Personal Broadcaster, a breakthrough consumer electronics device that transforms today's television viewing experience. The Slingbox enables a consumer to watch their live TV programming from wherever they are by turning virtually any laptop or Internet-connected device into a personal TV. The Slingbox redirects, or “placeshifts,” the TV signal from any cable box,… Read More

Drive through a few neighborhoods in your area with a WiFi-enabled laptop or PDA and one thing will become quite clear:  there are a lot of wireless networks out there. But take a closer look at those networks and a more disconcerting trend will become obvious: people don't know how to – or just choose not to – secure their wireless networks. A recent Associated Press article detailed an 800-mile drive in the San… Read More