SlingBox is a device which hooks up to your TV and your Internet connection and allows you to watch TV — or interface with your PVR – from the Internet! Now you can catch the local news from your home in Vancouver on your EvDO-enabled cell phone while you’re on your way to a meeting in Boston.
The only real “catch” is that the product only allows a single connection over the Internet to make use of the TV signal (aparently this has something to do with re-broadcasting regulations).
The article on Engadget has several interesting replies that raise some curious technological questions:
[1] If it catches on, will it wreak havoc with Uplink speeds on broadband Internet connections?
[2] Will technologies like this become the next “TiVO” and be bought-out by multi-million dollar corporations?
[3] Why do people pay no attention to the content of an article and then ask questions about it: “Will this work from my house if I hook one up to my parents’ house in another state?” — Well, the thing works over the Internet so as long as your parents aren’t using dial-up you should be OK. grr…
Either way, looks like a cool gadget, and from all reports that I’ve read (and heard first-hand), works like a charm. Currently retailing for about $200 USD.
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