Slingbox & Slingbox Review
The Slingbox is a streaming device that enables users to remotely view their home’s cable, satellite, or personal video recorder (PVR) programming from an Internet-enabled computer with a broadband Internet connection.
A Slingbox connects a TV source (via coaxial cable, composite cables, component cables, or S-video cable) to an existing Internet connection. Software on a user’s computer or mobile device connects to the Slingbox and provides the user interface for viewing the video stream and changing channels.
The Slingbox utilizes Sling Media’s proprietary SlingPlayer to display audio and video on Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh running Mac OS X, and selected mobile devices. SlingPlayer is not available for Linux, BSD or other open source systems.
Sling Players are available for various mobile platforms from Nokia Symbian OS, BlackBerry OS, iPhone OS, Windows Mobile and Palm OS based devices.
On February 4th, 2010, the SlingPlayer App gained the ability to stream content on AT&T’s 3G Network. This change was done 100% by AT&T as the SlingPlayer App already features quality scaling of content based on connection type.